December 14, 2017
Exploring Whether To Become Retail Provider Itself In Texas
Arcadia Power has formally rolled out its price alerts service, which monitors residential retail supplier offers in states with energy choice and automatically switches residential customers to plans which provide savings
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December 11, 2017
MP2 Energy Seeks To Serve New Service Areas
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December 7, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened a new rulemaking proceeding to address the service obligations, sales and marketing practices of Alternative Gas Suppliers
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December 7, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the creation of a Retail Market Advisory Committee which the ICC said is designed, "to advance efforts to foster a healthy retail marketplace in Illinois."
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December 5, 2017
Engie Resources LLC applied for an Ohio natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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December 1, 2017
The Michigan PSC has set the amount for the state reliability mechanism (SRM) capacity charge at 3 more utilities that customers of alternative retail electric suppliers shall pay if their supplier fails to demonstrate that it has enough capacity into the future, or elects not to arrange generating…
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November 22, 2017
The Michigan PSC has set the amount for the state reliability mechanism (SRM) capacity charge that customers of alternative retail electric suppliers shall pay if their supplier fails to demonstrate that it has enough capacity into the future, or elects not to arrange generating capacity to meet the…
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November 13, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission has initiated a workshop process to examine resource adequacy in MISO Zone 4 (Ameren), and several proposals to be considered in the process would impose new obligations on competitive retail electric suppliers
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November 2, 2017
Also Launches Service In Canada
Ambit Energy announced that it has expanded its service to large commercial and industrial customers to include electricity in Pennsylvania, offering service to C&Is at PPL Electric Utilities, PECO, West Penn Power, Penelec, Met-Ed, Duquesne Light, Penn Power, and UGI.
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October 30, 2017
Touts Lower Costs To Serve Retail Customers Than Competitors Earlier: Parent Of TXU Announces Deal To Combine With Dynegy Combined Generation Portfolio Will Serve To Accelerate Growth of Retail Business
During an analyst call on the announcement, in response to a question regarding any market power issues resulting from the merger, Vistra Energy President and Chief Executive Officer Curt Morgan said, "We will need to do some modest mitigation, roughly around 900 MW in ERCOT."
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October 27, 2017
Dynegy announced support for two Illinois bills (SB2250, HB4141) that would require the Illinois Power Agency to procure capacity needs on behalf of all customers at Ameren Illinois, and require competitive retail electric suppliers to execute contracts with capacity suppliers selected by the IPA…
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October 24, 2017
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted Interactive Energy Group LLC (IEG) an electric broker license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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October 20, 2017
Jason Helms and Jeremiah Collins, formerly of GSE Consulting, LP, have formed International Power Holding Co., "for the express purpose of acquiring retail energy brokerage businesses in North America."
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October 19, 2017
Making modifications required by the Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), the Illinois Commerce Commission adopted new rules governing retail electric supplier marketing.
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October 16, 2017
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted Archer Energy, LLC electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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October 12, 2017
The Michigan PSC issued an order in Case No. U-18444 opening a contested case proceeding for determining the process and requirements for a forward locational requirement for generation resources used to meet electric capacity obligations under Section 6w of 2016 PA 341 (Act 341).
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October 12, 2017
Tenaska Retail Supplier Seeks Authority To Serve New Service Areas
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October 12, 2017
The Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE) has urged 4,500 former Energy America customers who may have signed up for service in 1998, "to check their bills to see if they are now being charged by Direct Energy Services as their natural gas supplier."
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October 10, 2017
In comments on the Illinois Power Agency's 2018 default service procurement plan, Staff of the Illinois Commerce Commission have recommended granting the IPA additional flexibility to procure more than the targeted amount of capacity at Ameren in a spring procurement event if lower prices would make…
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October 9, 2017
Rebrands, Expanding Company, Names New COO
Just Energy recently acquired the commercial energy brokerage and consulting divisions of Save On Energy, LLC, and has rebranded the acquired division as Interactive Energy Group LLC (IEG)
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September 29, 2017
Entergy Corporation announced that it plans to operate Palisades Power Plant in Covert, Michigan, until the spring of 2022, under the existing Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Consumers Energy.
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September 25, 2017
South Bay Energy recently launched electric and natural gas service in Ohio, at Duke Energy Ohio for both commodities
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September 18, 2017
Adopts Capacity Showing Rules, Limits Reliance on MISO Auction To 5%
The Michigan PSC, in an order on the capacity demonstration process, ruled that LSEs, including retail suppliers, will not need to meet a locational capacity requirement for the period 2018-2021, but opened a new proceeding to determine the allocation of the forward locational requirement starting…
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September 13, 2017
Mandatory Telephone Call To Customers About Renewals Also Rejected "Written" Notice For 20% Variable Rate Increases Adopted
The Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) largely approved revisions to the retail electricity marketing rules as approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission in a second notice, but ordered several key revisions, including the elimination of double verification for in-person sales…
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September 12, 2017
Archer Energy, LLC has applied for Ohio electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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