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August 19, 2026
Octopus Energy announced the offering of a new app, Octopus Charge, that allows users to both find and pay for public electric vehicle charging, which, "gives EV drivers a seamless way to find and access charging on-the-go all from one place."
August 19, 2026
Path Financial Technologies, LLC registered as a Texas retail electric broker
August 19, 2026
A retail energy supplier has named…
August 19, 2026
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has signed a wide-ranging executive order concerning data centers that, among other things, directs the "rapid" development of rules and orders by the Pennsylvania PUC to address the allocation of PJM Backstop reliability costs and related obligations
August 18, 2026
Staff of the PUC of Ohio support the grant of limited waivers to both the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs and AEP Ohio concerning the use of an EDI transaction to allow retail suppliers to request an expedited return of a mercantile customer to default service
August 18, 2026
A preliminary report from a consultant retained by the Maryland PSC finds that the utility-owned policy option for new generation procurement, and the build-and-transfer-to-utility policy option, have the "highest regret" among the studied models
August 18, 2026
Existing Texas broker Kairos Energy Ventures LLC filed at the Texas PUC to use the trade name Valle Grid
August 18, 2026
Cutts Technologies LLC, a newly formed entity which recently registered as a Texas retail electric broker, has now filed to add the trade name "Fixed Rate Electric Plans" to its Texas broker registration
August 18, 2026
Frank Willson has joined OnSite Partners, LLC as Senior Director Community Engagement. Willson most recently served as Vice President of Mass Markets at AEP Energy, and held various VP-level roles at AEP Energy for over a decade. OnSite Partners was previously a unit of AEP prior to being sold in…
August 17, 2026
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently announced, as a plank in his "Keep Texas Affordable" plan, that Abbott would propose legislation, "expanding consumer choice and ending utility monopolies that drive up costs for Texas families and small businesses".
August 17, 2026
The Maryland utilities have reported the number of residential customers served under dual billing by each retail energy supplier during July 2026
August 17, 2026
RBD Retail Power, LLC Withdraws Pennsylvania Application
August 17, 2026
In comments to the Pennsylvania PUC, the Office of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro favors the expansion of utility customer usage data sharing to distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators, but opposed delegating a mechanism for such sharing to the Electronic Data Exchange Working Group…
August 17, 2026
As other Exelon-owned utilities have done , Delmarva Power in Delaware has proposed that responsibility for PJM Billing Line Item 1935, U.S. DOE 202C charges, be transferred to the utility, rather than being the responsibility of the wholesale SOS supplier
August 17, 2026
Staff of the Texas PUC have proposed the cost allocation to retail electric providers who have opted to receive information under the low-income customer identification service, for the State fiscal year beginning on September 1, 2026 (FY2027).
