September 23, 2026
HomeNews By RTO RegionPJM Region
PJM Region
Narrow these results by state, topic, company or docket — filters stack, and every story shown carries all of them.
September 22, 2026
New York PSC Issues Show Cause Order To ESCO
The New York PSC issued a show cause order to…
September 21, 2026
Choice Utility To Pay $1.2 Million, Assume Certain Customer Balances, To Resolve Billing Errors That Had Included Unbilled Choice Customers
A utility would, among other things, provide over $900,000 in customer bill credits, and also make a $300,000 contribution to its bill payment assistance program, under a settlement with…
September 21, 2026
Consilient Energy Seeks Ohio License
Consilient Energy LLC applied for an Ohio electric broker license to serve…
September 21, 2026
At Another Utility With Zero-Discount POR Program, PUC Staff Recommend Consideration Of Recovering POR Collection Costs From Retail Suppliers, If Proportion Of Choice Charge-offs Increases
Staff of a PUC have recommended that another utility…
September 21, 2026
Utility Proposes To Charge Shopping Data Center Customers Administrative Costs For Data Center Default Service
As part of creating a specific default service for data centers…
September 18, 2026
Constellation: PUC Should Consider Allowing Enrollment Of Larger C&I Customers Onto Municipal Aggregation, Proposes Consideration Of Large C&I CCA Minimum Stay
In implementing a new law authorizing opt-out municipal electricity aggregation…
September 18, 2026
Utilities: Not Viable To Develop Peak Shaving Program Required For PJM Capacity Backstop Opt-out Prior To Oct. 2026 Deadline
PSC Staff, OPC Say PJM Has Confirmed That Actual Program Design Not Needed By PJM Until Sept. 2027
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (“BGE”), Delmarva Power & Light Company (“Delmarva Power”), and Potomac Electric Power Company (“Pepco”) (collectively, the “Joint Maryland Exelon Utilities” or “JMEU”) told the Maryland PSC that the JMEU do not consider it viable to develop a PJM-compliant peak-shaving program that would allow the utilities to opt-out of PJM's Reliability Backstop Procurement (RBP) auction prior to an October 2026 deadline
September 17, 2026
Choice State PSC Staff "Skeptical" Of Open-Ended Or Long-Term Process For New Capacity, Favors Discrete Actions
Staff of the Maryland PSC are "skeptical" of, "the value of establishing a long-term, open-ended process for procuring [electric] supply in Maryland to alleviate resource adequacy at least cost to ratepayer," Staff said in comments on a preliminary report concerning new capacity policy options
September 17, 2026
Regulator Discloses Winning Bidders, Prices From Default Service Procurement
The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved the Illinois Power Agency's fall 2026 default service energy procurement
September 17, 2026
PUC Grants One Utility's Sought Waiver Concerning New EDI Transaction
A PUC granted a limited waiver to…
September 17, 2026
Texas Retail Provider Raises $33M Series B, "To Deliver AI Power in Weeks, Not Years"; Series B Supports Geographic Expansion
A Texas retail electric provider announced a $33 million Series B funding round led by…
September 16, 2026
PUC Staff Supports Utility's Sought (Brief) Total Waiver Of Rule Which Requires Expedited Returns To Default Service; Longer Waiver For Accomplishing Such Via EDI
Staff of a PUC have recommended approval of…
September 16, 2026
High Speed Energy Group Seeks Pennsylvania License (& License Briefs, 9/16/26)
• ResidentShield Power Receives Authority To Collect Customer Deposits In Texas • Cloudshadow Energy Seeks Pennsylvania License • Nationalgrip Seeks Illinois License • Pennsylvania PUC Cancels Broker's License
September 15, 2026
Update: MidAmerican Energy Services, LLC Formally Files To Relinquish Texas, Illinois Retail Electric Supplier Licenses
MidAmerican Energy Services, LLC on Sept. 14 formally filed to relinquish its Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
September 15, 2026
Retail Suppliers Seek Rule Waivers To Allow Digital TPVs
IDT Energy, Inc. and Residents Energy, LLC (Joint Applicants) petitioned the PUC of Ohio for certain rule waivers to allow third party verification to be conducted digitally on a customer's own device, rather than telephonically
September 15, 2026
PSC Sets Technical Conference To Consider Adoption Of Multi-Tier Purchase Of Receivables Discount Rate (PSC Previously Endorsed Use Of Multiple Discount Rates To Be Based On Each Retail Supplier's Own Uncollectibles)
A PSC has scheduled for…
September 15, 2026
In Settlement, Major Parties Agree To POR Workshop Process To Study Requiring Retail Suppliers To "Contribute" To Suppliers' Collection Costs, Or Limit POR Costs
Major parties to a rate case pending at…
September 15, 2026
PPL Electric Seeks To Make NITS, Other Transmission Costs Nonbypassable, Relieve Retail Suppliers From Cost Obligation
PPL Electric Says Change Will Reduce Market Price Risk For Retail Suppliers
As part of protecting non-large load customers from costs associated with data centers, PPL Electric in Pennsylvania has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to make Network Integration Transmission Service (NITS) and certain other transmission costs nonbypassable, with PPL Electric assuming…
September 14, 2026
Pa. PUC "Doing Everything Within Our Authority" To Protect Customers & Reliability, As PUC Report Says Modeled Reliability Risk Is Nearly Six Times Worse Than PJM's Planning Standard Due To Data Center Growth
As the Pennsylvania PUC released a report from a consultant indicating that, by 2030, a modeled reliability risk is nearly six times worse than PJM's planning standard due to data center growth, Pennsylvania PUC Chair Steve DeFrank stated, "The PUC will continue doing everything within our authority…
September 14, 2026
Appeals Court Vacates Dept. Of Energy 202(c) Emergency Generation Order (Costs Of Such Orders Are Generally Allocated To LSEs)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an order from the U.S. Department of Energy which had directed, based on DOE's assertion of emergency power, continued operation of Consumers Energy's Campbell coal-fired power plant.
September 14, 2026
Utility To Cease Requiring Signed Consent To Move Customer To New Supplier From Assigning Supplier In Cases Of Merger, Assignment
Regulator's Staff Supports Requiring Other Changes At Utility Sought By Retail Suppliers
In a rate case at the Illinois Commerce Commission, North Shore Gas and Peoples Gas in Illinois have agreed to cease the current practice of requiring that a signed consent form from a customer be provided in order for a new retail supplier to serve a customer in cases where such service by the new…
September 14, 2026
Update: MidAmerican Energy Services, "Has Exited The Retail Energy Supply Business"
MidAmerican Energy Services said in an attachment included in a regulatory filing that, "MidAmerican Energy Services, LLC ('MES') is providing notice that it has exited the retail energy supply business and is in the process of surrendering or relinquishing its authority to provide retail energy…
Sponsored
September 11, 2026
The Energy Insider Podcast: Episode #29 “Working with Great People” With Timothy Richmond of Chariot Energy; and Episode #30 “Leading Through Crisis” With Monica Collings OBE
The Energy Insider podcast, hosted by Jack Doueck of the Energy Marketing Conference, has released two new episodes:
September 11, 2026
License Briefs (9/11/26)
SoSo Energy Receives Pennsylvania License