October 31, 2016
Customers May Return To Default Service Before New Supplier In Place NOPEC Immediately Seeks New Supplier
FirstEnergy Solutions has exercised an option to cancel its contract to serve the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council electricity aggregation, which serves 500,000 customers, effective January 1, NOPEC said.
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October 31, 2016
Report: Restructuring Has Benefited Most Mass Market Customers, "Through Utility-Offered Default Service Products"
From 2011 to 2014, "statewide average annual retail electricity rates to residential shopping customers were higher than utility default service rates," a report from Christina Simeone and John Hanger, published by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, says
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October 28, 2016
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a revised compliance plan governing Philadelphia Gas Works' implementation of a remote account number look-up mechanism, which now does not recover costs through PGW's purchase of receivables discount rate, and which instead recovers implementation costs through a…
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October 28, 2016
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted, without modification, a partial settlement addressing the design and procurement of PPL Electric Utilities default service for the period June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2021, barring any petition for a mid-course adjustment, and also addressed the issue of PPL's obligation to…
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October 28, 2016
Granting, in part, relief requested by Respond Power, LLC, the Pennsylvania PUC Vice Chairman Andrew Place issued an emergency order requiring Penelec and West Penn to cease and desist from implementing a POR Clawback charge until Penelec and West Penn have filed the appropriate tariff supplements…
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October 28, 2016
PECO, joined by several parties, requested to withdraw its petition at the Pennsylvania PUC for approval of a microgrid pilot, which would have included utility ownership of microgrids and distributed generation, to instead allow for a collaborative stakeholder process to consider microgrid…
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October 28, 2016
PECO has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to implement a prepayment (advance payments plan) pilot.
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October 28, 2016
Affects Low-Income Customers Currently On Competitive Supply PUC Reverses ALJ's Recommendation For Changes To Proposed Restrictions Meant To Allow More Low-Income Shopping
PUC Vice Chair: Changes, "Will Likely Force All CAP Customers To Return To Default Service"
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October 27, 2016
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) has disclosed the winning bidders from the FirstEnergy EDCs' October wholesale auction that, when blended with other supplies, will ultimately determine its Standard Service Offer through May 2018.
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October 27, 2016
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new SOS rates and posted certain SOS pricing information for the periods beginning December 1, 2016 and June 1, 2017
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October 27, 2016
Respond Power LLC has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to issue an ex parte Emergency Order to prohibit Penelec and West Penn Power from, "unilaterally withholding from Respond Power Purchase of Receivables ('POR') payments as an offset for a nearly one-half million dollar POR Clawback Charge…
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October 27, 2016
Several individuals who own membership interests in North American Power sold their interests in broker Commercial and Industrial Energy Solutions, LLC.
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October 26, 2016
EMEX, LLC said that it was named 2016 TEPA ABC (Aggregator/Broker/Consultant) of the Year by The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) during the organization's 11th Annual Conference on October 13, 2016 in Houston, Texas.
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October 26, 2016
Potomac Edison has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the three-month period beginning December 1, 2016
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October 26, 2016
Delmarva Power has filed with the Maryland PSC new residential and Type I SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2017, and new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning December 1, 2016.
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October 26, 2016
Pepco has filed with the Maryland PSC new residential and Type I SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2017, and new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning December 1, 2016.
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October 26, 2016
Brokers May Be Required To Provide Bond Addresses Whether Affirmative Consent Needed for Renewals Consensus Paves Way For Action on POR, Other Market Enhancements
PSC Staff and the Retail Energy Supply Association and Delaware Public Advocate have reached consensus on all but two items for retail electric marketing and licensing rule changes under Reg. Docket 49.
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October 25, 2016
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed new tariffed PTC Default rates for commercial customers with the PUC for the three-month period starting December 1, 2016
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October 24, 2016
Staff of the Delaware PSC have filed comments on proposed revisions to the retail electric supplier marketing rules jointly proposed by the Delaware Public Advocate and Retail Energy Supply Association, under Reg. Docket 49
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October 24, 2016
PECO has posted electric Prices to Compare for the period beginning December 1, 2016
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October 21, 2016
Santanna Energy Services has been selected by Newton Township, Ohio to serve as the supplier under the township's opt-in natural gas aggregation for residential and small business customers
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October 21, 2016
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted Freepoint Energy Solutions LLC an electric supplier license to serve commercial, mercantile, and industrial customers in all service areas.
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October 21, 2016
The District of Columbia PSC recently approved Pepco's RFP for a portion of SOS suppliers for a three-year period beginning June 1, 2017.
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October 20, 2016
On Oct. 18, 2016, the PJM Board of Managers approved the Members Committee-endorsed proposal for a new composite "stated rate" of 36 cents per megawatt-hour for two years (2017 and 2018), and then a 2.5 percent annual increase to 41 cents per MWh in 2024, to recover administrative costs
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October 20, 2016
LifeEnergy (LS Power Affiliate) Receives License In New State
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