January 22, 2020
Retail Energy Supply Association Announces Election Of 2020 Executive Committee And State Chairs
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) announced the election of its new officers and state chairs for 2020.
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January 22, 2020
NEM's Craig Goodman Highlights Consumers' Growing Appetite For 21st Century Energy Services and Technology Choices, In Reflecting On Over 20 Years Of Retail Competition And Its Continued Expansion
Craig Goodman, who is retiring as President and CEO of the National Energy Marketers Association (NEM), has seen a lot in his 40 years of bringing competitive markets to the energy industry, but the constant has been the growing appetite of customers for choice in their purchases, including energy -…
January 22, 2020
Retail Electric Supplier Expanding To Natural Gas
Rushmore Energy, LLC applied for an Ohio natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
January 22, 2020
PSC Creating New Electric Choice Shopping Website, Rate Board; Launch Window Set
PSC Orders Utility To Develop Time Of Use Pilot Limited To SOS Customers
In a final decision in its Modernizing the Energy Delivery System for Increased Sustainability (MEDSIS) proceeding (Power Path DC), the District of Columbia PSC endorsed the Staff recommendation for a new retail electric choice shopping website, and has already begun work on the site
January 22, 2020
PSC Requires Retail Suppliers To Report Specific Info For Each Individual Grandfathered Contract, In Final RPS Rule
The District of Columbia PSC adopted as final various changes to its RPS rules to reflect recently passed language concerning changes to the RPS
January 15, 2020
Changes To SOS Procurement Raised In PSC's Clean Energy Law Implementation Docket
In a District of Columbia PSC proceeding concerning implementation of the 2019 Clean Energy DC Omnibus Act, the Sierra Club has raised the issue of electricity Standard Offer Service (SOS) procurement
December 19, 2019
FERC Rejects Capacity Market Load Carve-out Under PJM's RCO and Extended RCO Options, Expands Minimum Offer Price Rule
FERC today issued an order directing PJM to expand its current Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in the capacity market
December 13, 2019
RPA Energy Receives Retail Supplier Licenses In New State
The District of Columbia PSC granted RPA Energy, Inc. d/b/a Green Choice Energy electricity and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes
December 6, 2019
PSC Adopts Rule Changes Clarifying Rescission Period
The District of Columbia PSC has adopted final rules clarifying the start of the rescission period for electric and natural gas contracts
November 26, 2019
SunSea Energy Seeks Licenses In New State
SunSea Energy DC, LLC applied for District of Columbia electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes
November 25, 2019
PSC Proposes To Require Retail Suppliers To Notify Customers Of Billing Errors
In proposed revisions to consolidate the current billing error reporting rules, the District of Columbia PSC would require retail electric and natural gas suppliers to provide specific billing error notifications to customers -- a requirement not contained in the current electric billing error rules
November 19, 2019
PSC Seeks To "Reform" SOS Bypassable Reconciliation Methodology
The District of Columbia PSC will hold a further technical conference on the Procurement Cost Adjustment ('PCA') for Pepco Standard Offer Service ('SOS').
November 13, 2019
Bankruptcy Court Approves Sale Of Agera Energy Customers To Constellation
A federal bankruptcy court has approved the sale of various Agera Energy LLC, Aequitas Energy, Inc. and energy.me midwest llc retail energy customer contracts to Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Constellation)
November 11, 2019
PSC Issues Draft Revising Language Governing Exemption Of Existing Retail Contract From New RPS Changes
The District of Columbia PSC has issued a revised set of draft rules to implement recent legislation concerning the RPS
November 5, 2019
Utilities File Changes To Proposal To Compel Retail Suppliers To Transfer Certain PJM Price Responsive Demand Credits To Utilities, To Address Retail Supplier Concerns
Baltimore Gas and Electric, Pepco, and Delmarva have filed revisions to their previously proposed Maryland tariffs to establish a process by which retail electric suppliers must transfer, to the utility, credits, which the suppliers receive from the PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM), that are…
November 1, 2019
Pepco Educational Materials To "Assist" Customers On Whether Time Of Use SOS Rate Is "Advantageous"
Rates For EV-TOU SOS Rate, Optional Green Adder Filed
In a compliance filing regarding a Transportation Electrification Implementation Plan in the District of Columbia, Pepco said that it would develop educational materials for customers with electric vehicles on whether it would be "advantageous" for them to move to a "Whole House" time of use rate…
October 30, 2019
WGL Energy Services Parent Reports Improved U.S. Retail Electric Marketing EBITDA
In reporting earnings this morning, AltaGas Ltd. said that Normalized EBITDA for its Power segment for the third quarter, excluding the impact of asset sales, was lifted by improved results in its U.S. retail electric marketing business (WGL Energy Services)
October 28, 2019
PSC Approves Tariffs To Implement Prior Elimination Of Minimum Stay; Adoption Of Accelerated Switching
The District of Columbia PSC has adopted compliance tariffs from Pepco to implement the previously ordered elimination of the 12-month minimum stay on SOS for commercial customers who return to SOS after taking competitive supply.
October 11, 2019
PSC Seeks Comment On Integrating Long-Term Contracts Into SOS, Cost Recovery
The District of Columbia PSC has sought stakeholder comments on integrating long-term renewable energy contracts into SOS, and cost recovery mechanisms
October 7, 2019
Update: Constellation Stalking Horse Purchase Price For Agera Energy Book Revealed
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Agera Energy LLC and affiliates (the Debtors) reveals that Constellation's (Exelon Generation Company, LLC, or Exelon) acquisition of the Agera customer book is subject to a bid process under which Exelon has been named the stalking horse bidder
October 7, 2019
PSC Publishes Draft Rule To Eliminate Minimum Stay On SOS
The District of Columbia PSC has published draft revisions to its SOS rule to eliminate the minimum stay on SOS for non-residential customers who return to SOS from a competitive retail supplier
October 4, 2019
Agera Energy, LLC Files Chapter 11 Protection, Enters Into Agreement to Sell Its Retail Assets
Agera Energy and its affiliates have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York and is facilitating an asset sale to Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, subject to bankruptcy court approval. If approved by the…
October 4, 2019
License Briefs
Pure Energy Receives Retail Supplier License In New State
October 2, 2019
PJM Declares "Pre-Emergency" Load Management Reduction Action In Several Service Areas (Capacity Market RTO)
PJM earlier today declared a Pre-Emergency Load Management Reduction Action in the AEP, Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE), Dominion (DOM) and PEPCO service territories.
September 27, 2019
PSC Orders That Capacity Price Be Removed From SOS Bidding Due To Delay Of PJM Auction, Directs That Wholesale Suppliers Later Be Reimbursed With Final Capacity Price
The District of Columbia PSC has ordered that bidders in an upcoming Pepco SOS procurement for the June 2022 to May 2023 delivery year shall include a $0/MW-day cost for capacity in their bids, with winning bidders instead reimbursed the actual final price of capacity once determined.