January 29, 2015
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Delaware Valley Energy Solutions Receives License in New State
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January 27, 2015
Ambit Energy To Enter Six New Territories This Spring, Announces Solar Partnership
Ambit Energy will enter six new territories this spring, and also announces a partnership to offer solar installations to customers.
January 26, 2015
Town Square Energy Launches Service in New State
Town Square Energy has begun offering residential electric service in New Hampshire, at Public Service of New Hampshire and Unitil.
January 23, 2015
Utility Recommends Fixed Price Default Service Be Eliminated for Medium, Large C&I Customers
Unitil (Fitchburg Gas & Electric) has recommended that the Massachusetts DPU eliminate the fixed price default electric service option for medium and large C&I customers.
January 22, 2015
NRG Home Solar Launches Strategic Partnership with Upromise by Sallie Mae
NRG Home Solar announced a new partnership with Upromise by Sallie Mae, a service that helps families pay for college by earning cash back on everyday purchases.
January 22, 2015
Final Decision Maintains Ban on Retail Suppliers Offering Residential Rates Which Vary By Day or Week
A final Connecticut PURA decision on new requirements for customer bills prohibits retail suppliers from offering to residential customers rates which vary by day or week.
January 21, 2015
Draft Contract Summary Statement Would Require Retail Suppliers to List Fee Paid to Broker
A draft Connecticut PURA decision establishing a new standard contract summary form of the material terms and conditions for residential electric contracts would require the supplier to list any fee paid to a broker or aggregator.
January 20, 2015
Connecticut PURA Issues Draft Determination of RPS Compliance, Assigns Compliance Payments to Retail Suppliers
The Connecticut PURA has issued a draft decision regarding retail supplier RPS compliance for 2012, and which would assign alternative compliance payments to various suppliers.
January 20, 2015
NRG to Expand eVgo to 20 Markets Over Next Two Years
NRG Energy is to expand its eVgo electric charging infrastructure and services to 21 markets during the 2015-16 period, it said in an investor presentation last week.
January 19, 2015
Maine Sets February Standard Offer Rates
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric for the month of February 2015.
January 19, 2015
N.H. Bill Would Require Suppliers to List Rate Changes in Advance on Customer's Bill
A bill (SB 0170) has been filed in the New Hampshire General Court which would require that a customer's electric bill list any rate change which is applicable for the next month of service.
January 16, 2015
Briefly
PUC Denies PSNH Motion to Stay Divestiture Review
January 16, 2015
State Proposes Suppliers Pay $100 to Slammed Customers, in Addition to Refunds; Proposes New Standard for Suppliers
The Connecticut PURA has issued new draft standards for electric suppliers and a draft disclosure statement, stemming from Section 4 of Public Act 14-75.
January 15, 2015
BHE Default Service Rates to Decrease for Small, Medium Customers
Standard Offer electric rates for customers at Bangor Hydro-Electric (Emera Maine) will decrease starting in March, and the PUC appears to have selected 10-month supply contracts (through December 31, 2015), rather than 12-month contracts.
January 15, 2015
Viridian Launches Service in New State, Expands 3Dom Line to Include "Flex Auto Lock"
Viridian Energy is set to officially launch electricity service in Rhode Island, at National Grid in the next week.
January 15, 2015
PUC Drops Proposal That Variable Rates Be "Reasonably Reflective" of Market Conditions, And Only Based on Index or Formula
The Maine PUC issued a final order adopting revisions to its customer protection rules, and in doing so declined to adopt an earlier proposal that would have required variable rate changes to be "reasonably reflective" of market conditions, and which would have only allowed variable rates if they…
January 14, 2015
Maine Small, Medium Customer Standard Offer Rates to Fall, As PUC Apparently Selects 10-Month Product
Standard Offer electric rates for customers at Central Maine Power will decrease starting in March, and the PUC appears to have selected 10-month supply contracts (through December 31, 2015), rather than 12-month contracts.
January 13, 2015
Former Manager of PowerOptions Competitive Energy Purchasing Group To Lead Massachusetts DPU
Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton announced that Angela O'Connor, who formerly managed the PowerOptions retail energy purchasing group, will serve as Chair of the Department of Public Utilities.
January 12, 2015
NRG Residential to Mail Residential Customers Concerning Rebranding as NRG Home
Reliant Energy Northeast LLC will mail its Connecticut customers a brochure describing the company's rebranding as NRG Home.
January 12, 2015
Massachusetts Directs Suppliers Circulate Straw Proposal On Shopping Website/Rate Board
The Massachusetts DPU has directed retail electric suppliers to circulate a straw proposal regarding the electric shopping website/rate board the Department is developing.
January 9, 2015
Connecticut Send Meter Aggregation Issue Back to Legislature
Connecticut has referred back to the General Assembly the question of allowing nonprofit entities to aggregate electric meters that are billable to such entity.
January 9, 2015
License Briefs
Bargain Energy Seeks to Serve New Territories
January 8, 2015
Retail Supplier Says Hold Message Branding Which Led to Removal From Rate Board Was Oversight
Public Power informed the Connecticut PURA that a hold message for customers calling Public Power that continued to reference Levco Energy was an oversight, and was promptly corrected.
January 7, 2015
Draft Order Would Ban Residential Products With Prices Which Vary By Day or Week
A draft Connecticut PURA decision would prohibit residential electric products whose rates change on a daily or weekly basis.
January 7, 2015
Retail Supplier To Pay $4 Million Under Settlement With State Attorney General To Address Marketing, Pricing Allegations
Just Energy has entered into a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General under which it will pay $4 million to address allegations that the supplier or its agents engaged in, "deceptive marketing and sales that promised savings but charged significantly higher rates, entered consumers into…