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November 25, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Discount Power, Inc. (Discount) which would: impose a fine on Discount in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000); would order Discount to pay…
November 24, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a final order in which PURA, "finds that Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty or Company) failed to comply with Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 16-245(c), 16-245s, 16-245o, and the marketing standards developed by the Authority in…
November 23, 2021
The Maine PUC has approved new Standard Offer electricity rates for the residential/small customer and medium commercial customer classes at Versant Power-Maine Public District (MPD, formerly Maine Public Service)
November 23, 2021
The Massachusetts DPU approved new Standard Complete Billing Percentages (purchase of receivables [POR] discount rates) at Fitchburg Gas and Electric d/b/a Unitil, effective on and after December 1, 2021
November 22, 2021
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning January 1, 2022
November 17, 2021
The Connecticut PURA approved without modification a settlement between PURA Enforcement Staff and Clearview Electric, Inc. under which Clearview will pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service, as more fully described in our original story on the settlement
November 17, 2021
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (Commission) has posted Standard Offer electricity supply rates today for residential and business customers at Central Maine Power (CMP).
November 17, 2021
Town Square Energy, LLC is dropping up to 12,145 customers in Connecticut to default service, unless such customers first select an alternative supplier, due to such customers' contracts expiring during the peak winter season and the high prices that would be applicable if Town Square Energy…
November 16, 2021
As part of a recently announced education effort to inform customers about various bill payment assistance options and other measures to mitigate the impact of higher energy prices, the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey warned customers to, "[b]eware of competitive suppliers."
November 16, 2021
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (Commission) has posted new Standard Offer electricity supply rates today for residential and business customers of Versant Power, Bangor Hydro District (BHE), as well as for large business customers in Versant’s Maine Public District (MPS).
November 15, 2021
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO, for the period beginning January 1, 2022
November 9, 2021
MassPowerChoice, LLC applied for a Massachusetts electricity broker license to serve commercial and industrial customers.
November 8, 2021
Clearview Electric, Inc. would pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service under a settlement agreement with the Connecticut PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE), Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, and the Connecticut Attorney General to resolve a…
November 5, 2021
Liberty Power Holdings, LLC and related affiliates (Liberty, or Debtors) asked a bankruptcy court to approve an amended customer book purchase agreement with NRG under which NRG agrees that it will no longer acquire any Connecticut customers from Liberty as originally contemplated
November 4, 2021
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2022 to June 2022, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2022 to March 2022
November 4, 2021
United Illuminating has filed new default service rates with the Connecticut PURA for the period beginning January 1, 2022
October 22, 2021
The Massachusetts DPU has approved a rate mitigation mechanism for basic service (default service) rates at Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) that will cap an upcoming increase in basic service electric rates for the period December 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022
October 19, 2021
Freedom Energy Logistics announced today that Bart Fromuth has been named Chief Executive Officer.
October 16, 2021
In comments to the Massachusetts DPU, Colonial Power Group (CPG) urged Unitil (Fitchburg Gas and Electric) to submit plans or alternatives for the provision of basic (default) service for its residential and small general customers, "given the high likelihood that the City of Fitchburg will launch…
October 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has posted a draft report from its study to examine the potential opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of electricity community choice aggregation (CCA) for the State of Connecticut
October 8, 2021
Freedom Energy Logistics (Freedom Energy) and Colonial Power Group (CPG) announced a strategic partnership concerning services to municipalities in New Hampshire, with a focus on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), as well as municipalities' own accounts.
October 8, 2021
Deferral Would Be Recovered From All Distribution Customers
Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) has reached a compromise to cap an upcoming increase in default service (basic service) electric rates, for the period starting December 1, 2021, and asked the Massachusetts DPU to approve the capped rates
October 4, 2021
Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. has filed with the New Hampshire PUC new electric default service rates for the period beginning December 1, 2021
October 4, 2021
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU electric basic service rates for the period beginning December 1, 2021.
September 27, 2021
Under a recently conducted procurement managed by Freedom Energy Logistics, First Point Power was selected for a three-year contract to supply electricity to 200 municipal accounts of the City of Salem, MA
