March 4, 2025
Utility Files Proposed Start Dates For New Purchase Of Receivables Program
Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities in NH) has filed two proposed schedules for the implementation of a new purchase of receivables (POR) program
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March 4, 2025
Retail Suppliers Not Exempt From Attorney General's New Rules Governing Price Disclosures, Auto-Renewals
Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Joy Campbell announced the adoption of consumer protection regulations addressing, among other things, price disclosures and auto-renewals, and it is understood that retail electric suppliers are not exempt from the new regulations
February 28, 2025
Regulator Approves Deferral Of Default Service Costs
The Massachusetts DPU has approved filings by Liberty Utilities to defer reconciliations of its gas supply cost that would otherwise be incorporated into Liberty's bypassable gas adjustment factor (GAF) at this time
February 27, 2025
Regulator Directs Staff To Propose Changes To Retail Supplier Contracts, Language To Comply With Statute Allowing "Appropriate Limitations" On Retail Contracts
In a Feb. 27 procedural order (not an interim decision), the Connecticut PURA has directed its Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) to propose changes in retail supplier contracts in light of statutory changes allowing PURA to impose "appropriate limitations" on retail supplier…
February 27, 2025
Vistra Reports "Retail Performance Levels Not Achieved In The More Than Two Decades Competitive Markets Have Been Open"
In reporting earnings today, Vistra stated that it, "reached retail performance levels not achieved in the more than two decades competitive markets have been open[.]"
February 25, 2025
Utility Proposes To Defer Some Default Service Commodity Costs
In response to a Massachusetts DPU directive to cut residential bills by 5% during the peak winter season (story here) , Liberty Utilities in Massachusetts has proposed deferring reconciliations of its residential gas supply cost that would otherwise be incorporated into its bypassable GAF at this…
February 25, 2025
State Regulator's Staff Proposes That ALL Enrollments With a Retail Supplier Must Occur Through State-Run Energy Shopping Site!
Massachusetts' retail energy market needs a "reset", Staff of the Massachusetts DPU said in a presentation filed in advance of a workgroup meeting which will kick off a revised review of the retail energy market by the DPU
February 21, 2025
Regulator Orders Immediate Reduction In Total Customer Bills, Directs Utilities To File Proposals In Default Service & Distribution Proceeding
The Massachusetts DPU has ordered all of the state's investor-owned natural gas distribution companies to file revised reconciling factors that will result in no less than a 5% reduction in residential and residential low-income average bills for the remainder of the peak season (March and April…
February 21, 2025
PUC Approves Tariffs For New Purchase Of Receivables Program, Addresses Start Date
Adopting without modification a hearing examiner's report, the New Hampshire PUC approved agreed changes to Granite State Electric's (Liberty Utilities) tariff and supplier agreement to implement a purchase of receivable program
February 19, 2025
Proposed New POR Program Advances, Examiner Addresses Start Date
A New Hampshire PUC hearing examiner has recommended PUC approval of agreed changes to Granite State Electric's (Liberty Utilities) tariff and supplier agreement to implement a purchase of receivable program
February 19, 2025
Broker Affiliated With Retail Supplier Seeks Authority To Serve Residential Customers
Via Energy Solutions, LLC has applied to amend its Massachusetts electric and natural gas broker licenses to include service to residential customers
February 18, 2025
ResidentShield Seeks Retail Supplier License In New State
ResidentShield Power MA, LLC applied for a Massachusetts retail electricity supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
February 18, 2025
Constellation Reports Decrease In Customer Count Versus Year-Ago
In a 10-K for the year 2024, Constellation reported that its customer-facing business serves approximately 1.5 million total customers, and approximately 1.2 million residential customers.
February 13, 2025
Under Draft, Regulator Would Direct Staff To Propose Changes To Retail Supplier Contracts, Language To Comply With Rate Cap For Hardship Customers
REC-Only Contracts May Not "Yield" Rate Exceeding Default Service For Hardship Customers (Essentially Would Ban Non-shopping Hardship Customers From REC Contracts)
February 10, 2025
Utility Files Proposal To Serve 50% Of Mass Market Default Service From ISO Market Purchases
Public Service of New Hampshire (Eversource) has filed a proposal to serve 50% of its small customer group default service load from ISO New England market purchases, for the August 2025 to January 2026 period
February 6, 2025
After Several Years Of Inactivity, Regulator Resumes Consideration Of Major Retail Energy Market Consumer Protections, Citing Absence Of Legislative Action
Default Service Rates On Supplier Disclosure Summary
February 4, 2025
Attorney General Reports Retail Supplier Charging An Average Rate of 50¢/kWh
A retail electric supplier in Massachusetts charged residential customers an average rate of 51¢ per kWh for the period July 2023 to June 2024, the Massachusetts Attorney General (AG or AGO) said in an updated report on costs under competitive retail electric supply versus default service
February 3, 2025
Utilities Ask Regulator For Straw Proposal, Comment Period On Any New Restrictions On Retail Choice, To Allow Robust Review Of Technical Feasibility
Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating, in a joint motion, have asked that the Connecticut PURA, in a proceeding addressing appropriate limitations on customer choice to hardship customers, issue a straw proposal and allow for a comment period prior to adopting any new limitations
February 3, 2025
Regulator Denies Retail Supplier License Application, Says Supplier Unable To Meet Consumer Protection Standards
DPU Concludes Supplier Made "False Statement"
The Massachusetts DPU denied the electric supplier application of New England Power and Light LLC (NEPL) as the DPU said that NEPL, "cannot meet the Department's consumer protection standards."
January 28, 2025
Meta Signs Four Renewable Attribute Agreements For Texas Solar
Meta has signed four new Environmental Attribute Purchase Agreements (EAPAs) with Zelestra totaling 595 MWac, to be sourced from new solar power plants being developed in Texas
January 20, 2025
State Energy Agency "Revisiting" Position On Keeping Default Service Reconciliations Bypassable
The New Hampshire Department of Energy (DOE) is "revisiting" its previously stated position regarding the appropriate mechanism to collect under-recoveries in large customer default service costs at Public Service of New Hampshire
January 13, 2025
Regulator's Staff Issues Draft Findings Of Non-Compliance With RPS, Related Security Requirements By Retail Suppliers
Staff of a retail energy regulator filed…
January 10, 2025
Regulator's Staff Suggests Review Of Whether Incidental Residential Account Designation Should Be Terminated
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut PURA has urged…
January 10, 2025
Utility Seeks Delayed Start Date For New Purchase Of Receivables (POR) Program
An EDC is seeking a new date for the implementation of a new purchase of receivables (POR) program
January 7, 2025
Retail Supplier Expands CHP Offerings To Two New States
An integrated provider of retail energy and cleaner energy solutions for the commercial and industrial sector is expanding the availability and service of its cogeneration systems (CHP) to…