January 13, 2020
HOF Village, LLC (HOFV), the owner of the sports, entertainment and media enterprise surrounding the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, announced that it has secured multi-million dollar funding from Constellation to implement energy efficiency measures and finance construction of the…
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January 13, 2020
Grid Power Direct, LLC applied for a Pennsylvania electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
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January 13, 2020
Commercial real estate manager CBRE, Inc. applied for a Maryland electricity broker license to serve commercial and industrial customers in all service areas.
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January 13, 2020
PPL Sees First Increase In Net Residential Shopping In Two Years Statewide Loss Of Residential Electric Shoppers Narrows To 1,000
Five Pennsylvania electric distribution companies saw a net gain in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply during December, as the statewide decline in residential electric shopping narrowed to a loss of 1,000 accounts
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January 10, 2020
A handful of electricity customers were dropped to default service in Pennsylvania as a result of the Pennsylvania PUC order which provided for the cancellation of the electric generation supplier license of ResCom Energy LLC (ResCom) upon such transfers
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January 9, 2020
Vistra Energy Reports Negative Impact On Retail Contract From Delay
At a Market Implementation Committee yesterday, PJM said that it will not conduct a Base Residual Auction for capacity until FERC rules on new price floors to be developed as a result of FERC's recent order expanding the minimum offer price rule (MOPR)
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January 8, 2020
Vistra Energy Corp. and NextEra Energy, Inc. have applied at FERC for a series of transactions that will ultimately result in two generating assets currently co-owned by the companies to each becoming solely owned by one of the respective companies
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January 8, 2020
Pilot To Include Warm Transfer Process From Utility Call Center
The Maryland PSC recently accepted two load shaping pilots proposed by retail electric suppliers
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January 8, 2020
Non-Residential POR Discount Would Decrease To 0%
Washington Gas Light has filed with the Maryland PSC new purchase of receivables discount rates to be effective with the March 2020 billing cycle
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January 7, 2020
While a separate bill, the Virginia Energy Reform Act, is to be unveiled today broadly calling for an end to monopoly control of electricity in Virginia and to expand "consumer choice" ( see preview of the legislation in our prior story here , more details expected later today), a separate Virginia…
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January 7, 2020
Earlier Bill Envisions Texas-Style Model (Retailer Separated From EDC Inherits All Customers, Charges Price To Beat)
Legislation will be introduced for Virginia's 2020 General Assembly session, "that would end monopoly control over Virginia’s electricity system, creating competition in the retail sector," proponents of the bill, the Virginia Energy Reform Act, announced today
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January 3, 2020
Bill Would, "Increase Consumer Choice By Establishing A Competitive Market"
On January 7, Virginia Delegate Mark Keam and Delegate Lee Ware will announce what is described by proponents as, "bipartisan legislation to eradicate the current system of monopoly utilities controlling the electricity system in Virginia."
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January 3, 2020
New Wave Energy announced the "partnership signing" of Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, which includes bringing Allen on board as New Wave Energy's official spokesperson
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January 2, 2020
$12.5 Million To Be Paid To Certain Participants; Funded Via Default Allocation Assessments On PJM Members
FERC approved a settlement among PJM and numerous parties to resolve all issues concerning liquidation of the GreenHat Energy, LLC's Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) as a result of GreenHat's default, and the July 2018 FTR auction (July Auction)
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January 2, 2020
Breakerbox, LLC, Exelon's new retail energy broker and consultant whose launch had been exclusively first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com , applied for a Maryland electric broker/aggregator license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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January 2, 2020
PALMco Power OH and PALMco Energy Ohio (collectively, "PALMco") filed a response to a second notice of probable non-compliance recently issued by Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, under which PUCO Staff, among other things, recommended that PALMco should immediately re-rate, to the…
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December 30, 2019
Tesla, Inc. has applied to be an Associate Member of PJM
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December 30, 2019
Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Inc. has filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio revisions to its Supplier Coordination Tariff to require additional record keeping and reporting for certain calls from Standard Choice Offer (SCO) Customers that are transferred to SCO Suppliers, consistent…
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December 30, 2019
Starion Energy, Inc., certain of its principals, and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (AGO) have entered into a settlement agreement, based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which Starion would pay up to $10 million and undertake various changes to its marketing and pricing…
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December 27, 2019
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio recently rejected a recommendation from the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel to assign previously incurred propane commodity costs, recovered in the bypassable default service rate, to retail suppliers
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December 23, 2019
The Maryland PSC granted Nordic Energy Services, LLC a natural gas supplier license to serve all eligible customer classes in all service areas.
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December 23, 2019
Duke Energy Ohio has filed at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for approval of a battery storage pilot project, as the utility is proposing to install a lithium ion battery, rated for approximately 3.95MW/8.9MWH, adjacent to the existing McMann substation in Union Township, Ohio.
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December 20, 2019
PSE&G announced today that it will lower its residential natural gas supply rate, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
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December 20, 2019
Glick: "We Should Be Taking A Hard Look At Whether A Mandatory Capacity Market Remains A Just And Reasonable Resource Adequacy Construct"
In a dissent, FERC Commissioner Richard Glick said that a generator's participation in the New Jersey Basic Generation Service (BGS) auctions could trigger such unit being subject to the expanded minimum offer price rule (MOPR) in PJM's capacity market
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December 19, 2019
The Pennsylvania PUC directed the electric distribution companies to transfer the customers of ResCom Energy LLC (ResCom) to default service or switch them to another supplier of the customer’s choice as soon as practical, after the PUC found that ResCom has not complied with certain security…
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