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July 30, 2021
Regulator Rules On Which Customer Rate The Revised 25% Increase Notice Applies To
The Connecticut PURA has issued deadlines for retail electric suppliers to comply with various new provisions under adopted HB 6526
July 29, 2021
Town Square Energy, LLC ("TSE") would make a payment of $400,000 and agrees to a moratorium on in-person marketing under an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (the "Assurance") entered into with the Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Protection of the State of Connecticut, the Attorney…
July 27, 2021
Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has signed an agreement to buy 100% of the equity interests of Inspire Energy Capital LLC (Inspire), a renewable energy residential retail energy supplier with joint headquarters in Santa Monica, CA and Philadelphia, PA.
July 19, 2021
Mega Energy of New England, LLC would return all of its residential electricity customers in Connecticut to default service and "permanently" exit the state's residential market, and pay $250,000, under a settlement with the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut…
July 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA issued a ruling stating that the 25% rate increase notice ("Form 4") which must be sent by retail electric suppliers to residential customers applies to all contracts, both fixed and variable
July 8, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has reopened the record in the licensing docket of Liberty Power Holdings LLC (Liberty) for the limited purpose of taking evidence regarding alleged "changed conditions" at Liberty, and whether PURA's prior decision should be modified to reflect any changed conditions.
July 7, 2021
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed HB 6526 (Public Act 21-117) which, among other things, makes existing residential variable rate contracts null and void
July 1, 2021
Liberty Power Holdings LLC ('LPH') filed a response with the Connecticut PURA opposing a motion from PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement ('EOE') in which EOE sought the re-opening of LPH's licensing docket for the purpose of considering the revocation of LPH's license, with LPH…
June 30, 2021
Diamond Energy East, LLC, which is ultimately a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, applied for a Maryland electric supplier license to serve all customer classes, including residential customers, in all service areas
June 29, 2021
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (hereafter, "Staff") of the Connecticut PURA requested that the Authority issue a decision to re-open the electric supplier licensing docket of Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (hereafter, "Liberty") to consider revocation of Liberty's license
June 25, 2021
The New Hampshire PUC approved new default service rates at Public Service of New Hampshire (Eversource) for the period August 1, 2021, through January 31, 2022
June 18, 2021
The Connecticut general assembly recently passed HB 6526 which, among other things, makes existing residential variable rate contracts null and void
June 11, 2021
Residents Energy, LLC would return its Connecticut electricity customers to default service and exit the Connecticut market for a period of three years under a settlement agreement with the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement ('EOE') of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory…
June 10, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has issued a notice of intent to adopt proposed revisions to its retail electric supplier license rules
June 8, 2021
The Massachusetts DPU has rescinded its prior "request" that retail energy suppliers and marketers cease door-to-door marketing
June 2, 2021
Sunnova Energy International Inc. has expanded its lease service offerings, for solar + Tesla and Generac storage systems, to nine new markets: Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Florida, New York and Rhode Island homeowners
May 28, 2021
Regulator's Staff Says That Variable Rate Contracts Cannot Be Assigned Under Statute
Starion Energy, Inc. and Major Energy Electric Services, LLC, a brand of Spark Energy, have filed a notice with the Connecticut PURA for the assignment of more than 18,000 Starion Energy electricity customers to Major Energy (as the customer count was stated in a PURA Staff filing)
May 25, 2021
Spark Energy, Inc. ("Spark" or the "Company") announced today that it has executed four separate agreements to acquire a total of approximately 56,900 residential customer equivalents ("RCEs") for a total purchase price of $11.5 million, consisting of approximately 15,700 RCEs in Connecticut's…
May 21, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority issued further guidance to Vistra Corp. (Vistra or Company) finding that Vistra's specific virtual training process of sales agents meets the face to face requirements of virtual training adopted by PURA under the Electric Supplier Marketing…
May 21, 2021
In response to a motion for clarification from Vistra Corp., the Connecticut PURA adopted a single change to the third-party verification (TPV) script that retail suppliers must use under PURA's Marketing Standards, but denied other sought changes
May 21, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has issued a clarification concerning when retail electric suppliers are required to use new electric distribution company standard service rates in marketing to customers.
May 19, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) said that it has recovered more than $9.4 million for customers, "following an investigation that found dozens of electric suppliers failed to abide by existing customer protection regulations."
May 19, 2021
Proposes Limitation On Low-Income Customer Products
Staff of the Massachusetts DPU as well as a group of competitive suppliers have filed straw proposals addressing various Tier II issues in the DPU's ongoing review of the retail energy markets (Docket 19-07)
May 18, 2021
The New York PSC has issued separate orders revoking the ESCO eligibility of Josco Energy Corp ("Josco") and SunSea Energy, LLC ("SunSea").
May 17, 2021
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning July 1, 2021
