October 7, 2013
Connecticut Modifies Utility Bill Inserts Promoting Electric Choice
The Connecticut PURA has ordered Connecticut Light and Power and United Illuminating to modify the current quarterly billing inserts which promote electric choice.
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October 4, 2013
Retail Supplier "Default" Drops Customers to Utility Supply Service
A Connecticut retail electric supplier has "defaulted" and its customers were dropped to utility service.
September 30, 2013
Choose Energy Acquires Competing Online Energy Shopping Platform, Business
Choose Energy announced today that is has acquired Power2Switch, a competitor in the online energy shopping and brokering business.
September 23, 2013
License Briefs
Plymouth Rock Energy Seeks Gas Supplier License in Another New State
September 23, 2013
Viridian Launches Partnership to Offer Distributed Solar, Also Launches Carbon Offset Product for Gas Service
Viridian Energy is teaming with Solar City to provide distributed solar installations to its customers.
September 20, 2013
License Briefs
PNE Energy Supply Seeks License in New State
September 20, 2013
ISO New England: "Difficult" to Call Capacity Market a Success When Resources Fail to Perform, and NERC Violation Occurs (Solution is to Borrow from Energy-Only Market!)
"It is difficult to declare the [ISO New England] capacity market a success if a significant number of the resources that have been selected and compensated as capacity resources fail to perform as needed," Robert Ethier, Vice President of Market Development for ISO New England, said in comments at…
September 17, 2013
Lesson for Texas: ISO-NE Capacity Market Fails; FERC (Again) Tells Retail Suppliers to Pound Sand; Allocates New, Unhedgeable Backstop Costs to Real-Time Load
Showing once again its utter indifference to realities of the retail electric market, FERC has assigned unhedgeable, out-of-market costs to load serving entities, such as retail suppliers, deeming that retail suppliers "benefit" from such costs.
September 13, 2013
Connecticut Legislators Question Need for Retail Auction, Stress Need for Proposal to Originate at Energy Committee, Not Budget Process
Several Connecticut legislators, addressing the National Energy Marketers Association Connecticut Policy Leadership Roundtable, expressed skepticism about a retail auction of electric default service customers, and said that addressing the auction through the budget process, rather than the Energy &…
September 13, 2013
Connecticut DEEP Commissioner: Default Service Customers Have Done "Systemically" Less Well Than Choice Customers, Change "Imperative"
Default service electric customers in Connecticut have done systemically less well in terms of electric generation costs than customers who have exercised choice, which compels changes to the market, Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection…
September 11, 2013
New Canadian Retail Supplier to Expand to U.S., with Wealth of Retail Market Veterans
A Canadian retail energy supplier is expanding its operations to the United States.
September 10, 2013
License Briefs
Texas REP Files to Use Trade Name Beyond Power
September 5, 2013
ISO-NE Seeks to Change Capacity Market Rules Because Current Regs Have Yet to Require Capacity Resources to Perform
ISO New England has sought changes to the forward capacity market design because the current rules have never actually required capacity resources to meet performance obligations.
September 4, 2013
Retail Supplier Energy.me Nears 250,000 RCEs, Names New CEO to Continue Growth
Retail energy supplier Energy.me announced that 20 months since its launch, it has acquired 6,000 mid-market commercial customers, or the equivalent of 230,000 residential customers.
September 3, 2013
FERC Orders ISO-NE to Clarify Tariff Provisions Related to CFTC Exemption due to Impact on Small Retail Suppliers
On August 30, FERC conditionally accepted a tariff filing by ISO New England Inc. to reflect that market participants may qualify for an exemption from certain provisions of the Commodities Exchange Act (CEA) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations when engaging in specified…
August 29, 2013
License Briefs
ENCOA Receives Supplier License in New State
August 28, 2013
Emera to Purchase Natural Gas Generation Facilities in New England
Emera Inc. has entered into an agreement to purchase three combined-cycle gas-fired electricity generating facilities in New England from Capital Power Corporation.
August 26, 2013
Start-up ESCO Preparing to Launch Operations
A start-up power marketer, Premier Empire Energy, LLC, is working to launch operations, including retail electric and natural gas service.
August 23, 2013
Energy Plus Enters "Asset Purchase Agreement" to Acquire Customer Accounts
Energy Plus Holdings LLC has entered into a transaction to acquire a book of customers from another retail supplier.
August 23, 2013
National Energy Marketers Association Announces Agenda for Connecticut Policy Leadership Roundtable
The National Energy Marketers Association has released an agenda for its Connecticut Policy Leadership Roundtable to be held September 10-11, 2013 in Hartford, Conn.
August 23, 2013
Former Retail Energy Vice President Launching New Online Auction Energy Broker
A former Vice President of a retail energy supplier is launching a new online reverse auction energy broker, Energy Auction House Inc.
August 22, 2013
Connecticut Light & Power Files New Default Service Rates, Discloses Supplier
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Last Resort Service rates for the three-month period beginning October 1. CL&P Last Resort Service Rates, Oct. 2013 - Dec. 2013 (¢/kWh) Rates 39, 41, 55, 56, 57, & 58 (at or over 500 kW): Oct.: 5.399 Nov.: 6.135 Dec.: 8.503
August 21, 2013
Connecticut Closes Several Retail Electric Dockets
The Connecticut PURA has closed several dockets related to the retail electric market after noting that the Act prompting the dockets to be opened only included technical changes (such as updating the statute to reflect the creation of PURA), and no substantive changes to underlying policy which…
August 21, 2013
License Briefs
Draft Would Grant Supplier License to ENCOA
August 19, 2013
United Illuminating Files New Default Service Rates
United Illuminating has filed new Last Resort Service rates for the three-month period beginning October 1, 2013.