February 3, 2014
People's Power & Gas, LLC informed the Connecticut PURA that it expects to provide PURA with, "the plans of People's to return to active service in this region," in the near future.
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February 3, 2014
Connecticut Democrats have revealed a 2014 legislative agenda including a host of new regulations for electric supplier sales and marketing.
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January 31, 2014
Northeast Retail Supplier Receives Texas REP Certificate
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January 31, 2014
United Illuminating has informed the Connecticut PURA that it has been informed by ISO New England of the retirement of the load asset of a retail electric supplier
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January 30, 2014
Sunwave Gas & Power has launched electric service in Connecticut.
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January 27, 2014
FERC has administratively doubled capacity prices to be paid by retail suppliers, and their customers, in ISO New England, with Commissioner Philip Moeller brazenly trying to sell customers on the "reliability benefits" of the rate shock -- at a time when 75% of ISO-NE's gas-fired generation was…
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January 24, 2014
Constellation Reports Customer-Sited Solar Capacity Installed During 2013
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January 22, 2014
Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC (DEFG) has released its 2014 Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), which identifies the states that have the most active retail electricity markets in North America.
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January 21, 2014
"[R]eliability in New England is deteriorating as a result," of the "failure" of the current capacity market to reflect some of the most basic principles of a market -- higher-valued, higher quality goods should receive greater compensation than goods offering poor quality and poor service, ISO New…
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January 21, 2014
In our related story today (click here) , Matters noted that unplanned outages in ISO New England have doubled since the introduction of a forward capacity market, and we reported some of the reasons given to the ISO for failure to perform.
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January 21, 2014
"The overall rate of unplanned outages across the entire New England generating fleet has more than doubled since 2007," ISO New England said in a filing at FERC.
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January 21, 2014
A co-founder of Crius Energy and a former vice president at MXenergy are launching a new start-up retail supplier, Lumens Energy Supply LLC.
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January 20, 2014
A customer's original authorization to switch to competitive supply cannot be used to return the customer to competitive supply after a default has placed the customer on utility Standard Service, the Connecticut PURA said in a letter to People's Power & Gas.
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January 17, 2014
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel and Attorney General yesterday issued a consumer alert warning that, "thousands of Connecticut residents [are] currently on rates above 17 cents per kWh, [with] some more than double [the] current Standard Offer price."
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January 16, 2014
Ohio Approves New Retail Price Adjustment for Default Service
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January 16, 2014
Daniel Esty announced that he is stepping down as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to return to a tenured professorship at Yale University.
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January 15, 2014
Two retail electric suppliers have reached draft settlements with the Connecticut PURA regarding a PURA decision which originally ordered the imposition of what the suppliers saw as excessive alternative compliance payments.
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January 14, 2014
The fragmented U.S. retail energy market is "screaming out" for consolidation, Mark Lewis, CEO of retail energy holding company ONEnergy, Inc., told EnergyChoiceMatters.com.
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January 9, 2014
Canadian Retail Supplier Newly Entering U.S. Receives New License
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January 7, 2014
Connecticut Light & Power has reported to PURA the costs arising from its transfer of People's Power & Gas' customers to default service due to People's Power & Gas' default at ISO New England last month (the default has since been cured).
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January 7, 2014
Gulf Oil LP has entered the commercial and industrial fuel supply business, and Gulf's business lines in this sector will eventually include electricity and natural gas supply.
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January 7, 2014
There's a "lot of room" for the retail energy industry to make it easier to understand the process for choosing a retail energy supplier, new Choose Energy CEO Kerry Cooper said during a recent interview with EnergyChoiceMatters.com.
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January 6, 2014
People's Power & Gas, LLC informed the Connecticut PURA that with its default at ISO New England cured, People's Power & Gas, "plans to continue serving retail customers in Connecticut," and is, "currently making efforts to work with the utilities and regulators in Connecticut and other states to…
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December 30, 2013
Two retail electric suppliers have defaulted with ISO New England, and their customers are being returned to default service.
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December 17, 2013
Draft Would Grant License to Canadian Retail Supplier Newly Entering U.S.
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