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October 22, 2021
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved a settlement among National Gas & Electric, LLC (NG&E or NGE), Staff of the ICC, the Illinois Attorney General, and the Illinois Citizens Utility Board (CUB) to resolve an ICC investigation into NG&E's "customer sales, solicitation, marketing and enrollment…
October 12, 2021
Vistra Corp. (the "Company" or "Vistra") today announced a new $2 billion share repurchase program and the pricing of a private offering (the "Offering") of 1,000,000 shares of its 8% Series A Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock") to qualified…
October 1, 2021
CUB Warns Customers Against Retail Supplier Marketing, Offers
New Prices to Compare have taken effect for Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) and Ameren in Illinois on October 1.
October 1, 2021
Exelon Corp. today announced the senior leadership of the transmission and distribution utility business and the competitive power generation and retail energy business that will result from the planned separation of the companies.
September 30, 2021
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued written orders allowing the resumption of all forms of in-person retail energy marketing, including door to door marketing to residential customers, subject to several conditions
September 30, 2021
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued written orders allowing the resumption of all forms of in-person retail energy marketing, including door to door marketing to residential customers, subject to several conditions
September 17, 2021
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved the results of the fall 2021 procurement of block energy supplies for default service at ComEd and Ameren, as well as a capacity procurement at Ameren
September 15, 2021
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted BP Energy Retail LLC an Option 1 Texas retail electric provider certificate
September 15, 2021
Retail energy supplier Inspire announced that it has officially completed its acquisition agreement with Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
September 13, 2021
Utiliz Services, LLC registered with the Public Utility Commission of Texas as a Texas electric broker
September 10, 2021
Bankrupt Supplier Discusses Path Forward For Remaining RCEs, Potential POLR Drop
A bankruptcy court today approved the sale of a significant book of customers of Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (collectively, 'Liberty Power' or the 'Debtors') to NRG Retail, LLC, which had been previously designated as a stalking horse bidder
September 9, 2021
Alleging an, "apparent misrepresentations with respect to certain information provided by SmartEnergy Holdings LLC (SmartEnergy) as part of its ESCO eligibility [re-]application to serve customers in the State of New York," the New York PSC directed SmartEnergy to show cause why the Commission…
September 3, 2021
Blitz Ventures, Inc. d/b/a EnergyBot, the retail electricity plan comparison website owned by Vistra, filed for an amendment to its Maryland electric and natural gas broker licenses to serve residential customers in all service areas
September 2, 2021
Star Energy Partners, LLC has agreed to a two-year marketing and enrollment "stand-down period" in Illinois as part of a settlement with Staff of the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, and the Citizens Utility Board
August 30, 2021
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has recommended that PUCO deny the application of Switch Energy, LLC ("Switch") to renew its competitive retail electric service (CRES) provider license
August 19, 2021
Requires Suppliers To Disclose Utility Price To Compare In Various New Situations
The Illinois Commerce Commission today issued a first notice order which includes proposed revisions to marketing and related rules applicable to alternative retail electric suppliers and alternative gas suppliers
August 9, 2021
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has remanded to FERC a complaint concerning the results of the 2015 Midcontinent ISO capacity auction, finding that FERC's conclusion that the outcome of the auction was just and reasonable, because the auction complied with the applicable tariff…
August 5, 2021
In an annual retail electric market report, the Illinois Commerce Commission's Office of Retail Market Development recommended that the Public Utilities Act be amended to give the Commission explicit authority to revoke the licenses of agents, brokers, and consultants
August 5, 2021
Customers On Retail Supply Paying On Average 3.7¢/kWh More Than ComEd
The Illinois Commerce Commission's Office of Retail Market Development has published its annual retail electric market report, which includes a comparison of costs paid by customers served by an alternative retail electric supplier (ARES), including through municipal aggregation, versus the costs…
July 27, 2021
Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has signed an agreement to buy 100% of the equity interests of Inspire Energy Capital LLC (Inspire), a renewable energy residential retail energy supplier with joint headquarters in Santa Monica, CA and Philadelphia, PA.
July 22, 2021
Draft Order Addresses Full Resumption Of In-Person Sales
An Illinois Commerce Commission ALJ has issued a proposed order which would allow for the full resumption of all forms of in-person marketing by retail energy suppliers, and which would deny ICC Staff's proposal that retail energy sales agents must be vaccinated
July 16, 2021
Archer Energy is acquiring the retail natural gas customers currently served by Realgy at NIPSCO in Indiana, with the transition effective in August
July 13, 2021
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted Diamond Energy East, LLC an electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
July 8, 2021
Diamond Energy East, LLC, which is ultimately a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, applied for a District of Columbia electric supplier license to serve all customer classes, including residential customers
July 8, 2021
PJM Interconnection's Board of Managers has approved a proposal to address what PJM termed, "long-standing concerns with the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR) in the PJM capacity market."
