August 3, 2015
The Small Customer Marketer Coalition filed a complaint at the New York PSC against KeySpan Gas East Corporation (National Grid), alleging that the "retroactive" cash out invoices issued by the utility to ESCOs in July 2015 covering the month of June 2015 are, "unlawful, arbitrary and capricious."
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July 30, 2015
Energy Marketing Conferences announced that seven retail energy CEOs will address issues facing the industry at its September 10th Energy Marketing Conference in New York City
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July 29, 2015
N.Y. Sets Technical Conference on ESCO, DER Licensing Rules
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July 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff have proposed eligibility criteria and rules for distributed energy resource suppliers (DERS)
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July 29, 2015
ConEdison Solutions and SunPower have joined forces to offer New York State homeowners the opportunity to lease SunPower solar power systems.
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July 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff proposed what were termed "interim" changes to the ESCO licensing standards in New York.
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July 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff have proposed a new definition of "fixed price" in proposed changes to the Uniform Business Practices
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July 29, 2015
New York PSC Staff reported, "an increasing number of complaints in which consumers allege that energy brokers provided inaccurate or misleading information concerning ESCO products and services."
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July 29, 2015
Staff of the New York PSC have recommended that ESCOs be required to use standard contracts for residential service, and would introduce elements of standardization to non-residential contracts.
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July 27, 2015
A New York collaborative has recommended to the PSC that the existing on-cycle natural gas switching timeline of 15 calendar days be modified to 10 business days.
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July 27, 2015
Certain of the Reforming the Energy Vision proposed demonstration projects -- particularly Consolidated Edison's CONnectED Homes Platform -- would provide to selected utility partners, "a distinct and discriminatory competitive advantage," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in comments to the…
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July 21, 2015
County Energy Corp. has begun listing residential natural gas offers on New York Power to Choose for the Keyspan New York (National Grid/Brooklyn Union) and Orange & Rockland service areas.
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July 20, 2015
Talen Energy Corporation announced an agreement to acquire MACH Gen, LLC, which owns more than 2,500 megawatts of combined-cycle, natural gas-fired generating capacity, for $1.175 billion inclusive of any assumed debt, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
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July 16, 2015
A draft report on the market design for New York Reforming the Energy Vision does not envision that utilities will procure energy from distributed resources for resale to default service customers.
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July 16, 2015
Direct Energy has ceased listing offers on the New York Power to Choose site under the brand NYSEG Solutions.
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July 14, 2015
A report from Staff of the New York PSC issued last month examining programs for addressing energy affordability for low income utility customers, including alternatives to the current disparate programs at each utility, does not recommend fixed price utility supply pricing, and declined to address…
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July 14, 2015
Texas Retail Energy, LLC, the self-supply arm of Walmart, filed an update to its New York ESCO retail access application form to include the additional electric service territories of Central Hudson, Consolidated Edison, Orange & Rockland, and Rochester Gas & Electric.
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July 10, 2015
East Coast Power & Gas announced that it has partnered with the New York Mets to become a sponsor and the official energy supplier for the Mets.
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July 10, 2015
Spark Energy, Inc. has acquired CenStar Energy, a retail energy company with approximately 75,000 residential customer equivalents.
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July 8, 2015
Crius Energy is purchasing the New Hampshire and Rhode Island electric books of Gulf Electricity
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July 7, 2015
New York PSC Staff will convene a further collaborative on July 23 to continue discussions on the following issues concerning the provision of services by ESCOs: defining the standards to be used to determine value added products and services that must be provided to Assistance Program Participants…
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July 6, 2015
FERC approved the application of Iron Energy, LLC d/b/a Kona Energy for a transaction under which 100% of the membership interests in Iron will be sold to Vantage Commodities Financial Services, LLC
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July 2, 2015
Central Hudson Gas & Electric has proposed as a Reforming the Energy Visions product developing an Amazon-like online exchange for customers to purchase, "energy management products and services."
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July 2, 2015
Consolidated Edison has filed several Reforming the Energy Vision products, and one of the projects, its CONnectED Homes Platform, envisions the utility bundling and reselling value-added services to customers.
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July 1, 2015
Light Power & Gas, LLC has responded to a show cause order issued against the ESCO by the New York PSC in which the PSC had alleged that the company failed to file an annual compliance update to its license, and allegedly failed to file with the Secretary information on the entities marketing on its…
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