February 7, 2022
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) sought that PURA issue a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Sunwave Gas & Power CT, Inc. (Sunwave or Company), and sought an order that would…
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January 31, 2022
Investigation To Consider Whether Retail Supplier Offers Are Overpriced Or Harmful
Staff of the Connecticut PURA have proposed a schedule for PURA's review of retail electric supplier offers under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-245(a), to be followed by the periodic review of the placement of all utility hardship customers on default service
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January 28, 2022
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel issued an update stating that, for the rolling year of January 2021 through December 2021, Connecticut residential consumers who chose a retail electric supplier paid, in aggregate, $35,861,812 more than the standard offer.
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January 27, 2022
Sunwave Gas & Power has informed customers in New England that Sunwave will no longer be serving customers in the ISO-NE market
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January 24, 2022
Investigation To Consider Whether Retail Supplier Offers Are Overpriced Or Harmful
The Connecticut PURA has expanded a periodic review of the placement of all utility hardship customers on default service to include a review of retail electric supplier offers under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-245(a)
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January 13, 2022
Supplier Is Also Bringing Millions In Capital For C&I Businesses To Develop Solar And Microgrids
Catalyst Power Holdings LLC is launching diversified power services in Connecticut, including retail energy supply
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January 6, 2022
Trusted Energy LLC d/b/a T.E. Energy Consultants LLC (NJ) announced a sale process for its business
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December 30, 2021
Winning Suppliers Disclosed
The New Hampshire PUC approved new default service (energy service) rates at Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) for the period February 1, 2022 through July 31, 2022
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December 20, 2021
Regulator May Condition Access To Utilities' Systems Based On Such Findings
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut PURA and the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) filed a motion requesting that PURA open a proceeding to investigate whether retail electric suppliers' offers are overpriced or harmful to residential customers
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December 7, 2021
In an interrogatory filed in a proceeding concerning an annual report to the state legislature on the status of electric choice, the Connecticut PURA Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) directed all retail electric suppliers to report on the number of residential customers served…
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December 6, 2021
NRG Energy Inc. has closed the previously reported sale of approximately 4,850 MWs of fossil generating assets from its East and West regions to Generation Bridge, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners.
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November 25, 2021
Would Require Supplier To Return All Customers In State To Default Service, As Regulator Alleges "Deeply Troubling, If Not Sickening" Sales Call/TPV NOV Says Use Of Phrases "Fixed Rate", "Price Protection" Are Deceptive "On Their Own"
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Discount Power, Inc. (Discount) which would: impose a fine on Discount in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000); would order Discount to pay…
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November 24, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a final order in which PURA, "finds that Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty or Company) failed to comply with Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 16-245(c), 16-245s, 16-245o, and the marketing standards developed by the Authority in…
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November 17, 2021
The Connecticut PURA approved without modification a settlement between PURA Enforcement Staff and Clearview Electric, Inc. under which Clearview will pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service, as more fully described in our original story on the settlement
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November 17, 2021
Town Square Energy, LLC is dropping up to 12,145 customers in Connecticut to default service, unless such customers first select an alternative supplier, due to such customers' contracts expiring during the peak winter season and the high prices that would be applicable if Town Square Energy…
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November 8, 2021
Clearview Electric, Inc. would pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service under a settlement agreement with the Connecticut PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE), Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, and the Connecticut Attorney General to resolve a…
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November 5, 2021
Liberty Reports Sale Process For Remaining Book Did Not Produce Buyer, Seeks To Drop Remaining Customers To Default Service
Liberty Power Holdings, LLC and related affiliates (Liberty, or Debtors) asked a bankruptcy court to approve an amended customer book purchase agreement with NRG under which NRG agrees that it will no longer acquire any Connecticut customers from Liberty as originally contemplated
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November 4, 2021
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2022 to June 2022, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2022 to March 2022
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November 4, 2021
United Illuminating has filed new default service rates with the Connecticut PURA for the period beginning January 1, 2022
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October 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has posted a draft report from its study to examine the potential opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of electricity community choice aggregation (CCA) for the State of Connecticut
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September 23, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority formally issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Clearview Energy, Inc. which would impose a civil penalty of $1 million against Clearview and which would require Clearview to return all of its Connecticut…
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September 23, 2021
3Degrees Group, Inc. informed the Connecticut PURA that it will cease being a Clean Energy Options Program supplier following the 2021 reporting year
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September 21, 2021
Staff of the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE or Staff) of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority moved that PURA issue a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Clearview Energy, Inc. which would impose a civil penalty of $1 million…
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September 17, 2021
Liberty Power Holdings, LLC ("Liberty", "Company", or "Debtor") filed a motion at the Connecticut PURA arguing that a recent bankruptcy court sale order approving the sale of certain of its customers to NRG Energy (including residential customers) prohibits the Connecticut PURA from continuing with…
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September 15, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty or Company) which, subject to Liberty's right to contest the NOV via hearing, would suspend Liberty’s electric…
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