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September 22, 2022
The Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General has requested that the state's Department of Public Utilities consider "reforms" to the procurement of electricity supplies for basic service (default service), and to consider ways to lessen the impact of the winter basic service rates
September 22, 2022
Six Rhode Island cities and towns have joined together to launch opt-out municipal aggregation programs
September 21, 2022
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed new basic service (default service) electric rates for the period beginning November 1, 2022.
September 20, 2022
Competitive Energy Services (CES) and Risk Services Group (RSG) announced that, effective September 8, 2022, CES has acquired RSG’s electricity and natural gas procurement consulting business.
September 20, 2022
In a Connecticut PURA proceeding implementing PURA's authority to condition access to utility systems on all retail electric supplier offers being just and reasonable, including, but not limited to, proof that the electric supplier's products are not overpriced or harmful to residential customers…
September 19, 2022
A New Hampshire resident, described in a filing as, "an acknowledged leader in the movement toward retail competition and deregulation of the electric utility industry," has filed a petition with the state's PUC for a, "Determination of Whether New Hampshire Residential Customers Benefited From…
September 9, 2022
In a Connecticut PURA proceeding implementing PURA's authority to condition access to utility systems on all retail electric supplier offers being just and reasonable, including, but not limited to, proof that the electric supplier's products are not overpriced or harmful to residential customers…
September 7, 2022
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority) issued an order finding that Sunwave Gas & Power CT, Inc. (Sunwave): "(1) failed to comply with Authority orders and (2) lacks managerial and financial capability in violation of Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-245(c)."
September 6, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC formally opened an investigatory proceeding to examine all pertinent aspects of RPS, electricity Default Service, and COG [gas utility cost-of-gas] procurements in New Hampshire, and related Commission processes.
September 2, 2022
In Massachusetts, Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has proposed new Standard Complete Billing Percentages (SCBPs, aka POR discount rates) in an annual Purchase of Receivables filing
August 19, 2022
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority requested that PURA issue a draft decision to assign about $2.3 million in costs for utilities to update their billing systems to retail suppliers, with a proposed mechanism, and…
August 18, 2022
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil (the Company) filed at the Massachusetts DPU for approval of an alternative approach to procuring and pricing basic service, "which is designed to address uncertainty relative to the Fitchburg municipal aggregation."
August 12, 2022
Addressing a previously reported request from its Enforcement Staff, the Connecticut PURA formally issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) against Verde Energy USA Inc. that would impose a $2 million fine on Verde, would require restitution to all customers for service back to October 2020 if such…
August 8, 2022
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement of the Connecticut PURA requested that PURA issue a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty against Verde Energy USA Inc. in the amount of $2 million, which would also require restitution to all customers enrolled after October 2, 2020…
August 4, 2022
Constellation Energy Corporation reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2022.
August 2, 2022
Community Energy, Inc. is withdrawing from the Connecticut Clean Energy Options program, a state-sanctioned program under which selected providers could offer RECs to customers, billed through the utility bill, without changing the customer's supplier of electricity
July 28, 2022
Following the previously reported adoption of new rules (story here) , the Maine PUC has now established a registration process for the registration of the third-party sales agents of competitive electricity providers (CEPs, note, generally, the term CEP in Maine also includes brokers/aggregators).
July 26, 2022
Titan Energy New England ("Titan Energy"), a provider of electricity and natural gas procurement services, announced the expansion of its partnership with the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) to include renewable energy procurement and electric vehicle (EV) charging station services.
July 22, 2022
Bill Sent To Gov. Requires Investigation Of Advantages & Disadvantages Of RTOs, Other Market Mechanisms In Facilitating Green Energy
July 22, 2022
A Massachusetts conference committee has reached a compromise on a broad-reaching climate bill, with the conference version of the bill, which has been passed by both houses and sent to the Governor, omitting language from a Senate version which would have prohibited individual retail electric…
July 21, 2022
In ruling on a discovery objection, the Connecticut PURA has essentially adopted a de facto requirement for retail suppliers to monitor and correct data filed by the utilities concerning the suppliers and retail market, as failure to do so, "reflects on an electric supplier's technical and…
July 19, 2022
In a recent market update, the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel noted that, "In the month of May 2022, seven out of ten residential supplier customers paid less than the Standard Offer in Eversource territory, and six out of ten residential supplier customers paid less than the Standard Offer…
July 11, 2022
A petition signed by more than 1,000 Bay State residents was shared with Massachusetts lawmakers today urging the protection of the competitive electric market in Massachusetts.
July 11, 2022
CPower Energy Management ("CPower") announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S. demand response division of Centrica Business Solutions, LLC ("Centrica").
July 6, 2022
Public Power, LLC has agreed to pay $3 million, and it and several other Vistra-owned retail energy suppliers would return their Connecticut customers to default service and voluntarily relinquish their Connecticut licenses, under a settlement among Public Power, LLC, Viridian Energy, LLC…
