October 2, 2013
A draft segment report on Michigan's energy future from the PSC and Michigan Energy Office states that subsidized electric rates for large volume users should be carefully examined.
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October 1, 2013
The Illinois Power Agency on September 30 filed a default service procurement plan with the Illinois Commerce Commission (13-0546) which seeks to return to the purchase of fixed energy blocks to serve default service load.
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September 30, 2013
Choose Energy announced today that is has acquired Power2Switch, a competitor in the online energy shopping and brokering business.
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September 30, 2013
Texas REP Granted Use of Trade Name Beyond Power
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September 26, 2013
Viridian Energy Receives License in New State
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September 25, 2013
The Michigan PSC has ordered Wisconsin Electric Power Company to arrange for two customers, for which Wisconsin Electric was delaying switches to an alternative electric supplier, to be switched to choice service immediately.
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September 23, 2013
Pepco has filed with the District of Columbia PSC discount rates for Pepco's new purchase of receivables program, which Pepco is scheduled to implement on October 7, 2013.
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September 19, 2013
Updated 1:20 pm ET to reflect that Crius Energy, the parent of Viridian Energy, confirmed after this story was originally published that Crius Energy, Viridian, and Crius' other retail energy brands are not affiliated with Citizens Against Municipal Aggregation in any way
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September 18, 2013
During August, Commonwealth Edison reversed a month-ago decline in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply, but overall Illinois saw lower growth in residential shopping, according to the latest stats on PlugIn Illinois.
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September 17, 2013
The Retail Energy Supply Association, and a group of sixteen end users, in separate letters, have urged Indiana lawmakers to pursue an evaluation of retail electric choice.
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September 17, 2013
Constellation Energy Seeks to Serve Residential Customers in New Service Area
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September 16, 2013
The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council has announced a new agreement to supply its opt-out natural gas aggregation, including a new supplier and use of local shale gas.
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September 12, 2013
Although the superior policy was already clear for a variety of reasons, the institution of involuntary firm load shed in PJM, due in part to a lack of available generating capacity (click here for story) , provides Texas with the inescapable conclusion that requiring a mandated reserve margin to be…
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September 12, 2013
In what is ultimately a failure of a mandated reserve margin to keep the lights on -- despite the billions of dollars in costs that it annually imposes on customers -- PJM was forced to direct utilities to involuntarily curtail tens of thousands of customers on Tuesday, due to "unseasonably" hot…
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September 11, 2013
North American Power has begun offering natural gas service in Ohio.
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September 11, 2013
A Canadian retail energy supplier is expanding its operations to the United States.
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September 9, 2013
Ameren has filed tariff revisions to modify its electric purchase of receivables discount rate due to an error in the prior calculation.
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September 9, 2013
Viridian has expanded its electric supply service to Ameren in Illinois
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September 6, 2013
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened a proceeding to address access to electric customer usage data under various scenarios, especially due to statutory language concerning the privacy of customer data in AMI pilots.
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September 4, 2013
The Midcontinent ISO has filed with FERC updated Cost of New Entry (CONE) values for each local resource capacity zone, for the planning year that will commence on June 1, 2014
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September 4, 2013
Retail Supplier Union Atlantic Electricity Seeks License in New State
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September 4, 2013
Over its first 12 months of service, the Standard Choice Offer (SCO) program at Columbia Gas of Ohio did not lead to any appreciable change in migration to choice (non-SCO) service, a report from Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio concluded.
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September 4, 2013
Retail energy supplier Energy.me announced that 20 months since its launch, it has acquired 6,000 mid-market commercial customers, or the equivalent of 230,000 residential customers.
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August 30, 2013
The Michigan PSC granted Wisconsin Electric Power Company what it termed "limited authorization" to defer certain costs arising from the mass exodus of sales to competitive supply at the utility.
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August 30, 2013
Torch Energy Solutions, LLC announced that it will begin offering brokering and consulting services to Illinois residential and business customers in September.
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