February 21, 2018
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened a proceeding pursuant to amended Section 2-202(i-5) of the Public Utilities Act to consider the initiation of assessments and fees to be potentially levied on alternative retail electric and natural gas suppliers to fund the Commission's operations (Docket…
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February 16, 2018
Great American Power, LLC applied for an Illinois alternative natural gas supplier license to serve to all eligible residential and commercial customers in Illinois, at Ameren (small commercial only), Nicor, Peoples Gas, and North Shore Gas.
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February 16, 2018
LifeEnergy, LLC, the retail supplier affiliate of LS Power, has applied for an Ohio retail natural gas supplier license to serve residential and small commercial customers in all service areas
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February 14, 2018
LifeEnergy, the retail supplier affiliate of LS Power that is currently active in several retail electric markets, is expanding to retail natural gas sales
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February 13, 2018
EnSync, Inc., a developer of distributed energy resources (DERs), today announced a partnership with licensed agent, broker and consultant (ABC) Lower Electric to offer solar energy-based electricity solutions to its nearly 4,000 clients in Illinois.
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January 24, 2018
Effective January 19, 2018, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner appointed Anastasia Palivos and D. Ethan Kimbrel to five-year terms at the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC).
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January 15, 2018
Stream (formerly Stream Energy) has named Steve Fisher as Chief Sales Officer
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January 10, 2018
The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA) and the Illinois Professionals Association (ILEPA) announced today that the two organizations have merged.
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January 9, 2018
The Public Utility Commission of Texas granted SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC an Option 1 retail electric provider certificate
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January 8, 2018
PowerLink Partners LLC announced today that it has acquired Trident Retail Energy Company, LLC (d/b/a Trident Power)
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December 14, 2017
Exploring Whether To Become Retail Provider Itself In Texas
Arcadia Power has formally rolled out its price alerts service, which monitors residential retail supplier offers in states with energy choice and automatically switches residential customers to plans which provide savings
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December 11, 2017
MP2 Energy Seeks To Serve New Service Areas
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December 7, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened a new rulemaking proceeding to address the service obligations, sales and marketing practices of Alternative Gas Suppliers
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December 7, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing the creation of a Retail Market Advisory Committee which the ICC said is designed, "to advance efforts to foster a healthy retail marketplace in Illinois."
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November 16, 2017
BlueRock Energy named Stew Anklin as Vice President of Sales.
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November 13, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission has initiated a workshop process to examine resource adequacy in MISO Zone 4 (Ameren), and several proposals to be considered in the process would impose new obligations on competitive retail electric suppliers
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November 2, 2017
Also Launches Service In Canada
Ambit Energy announced that it has expanded its service to large commercial and industrial customers to include electricity in Pennsylvania, offering service to C&Is at PPL Electric Utilities, PECO, West Penn Power, Penelec, Met-Ed, Duquesne Light, Penn Power, and UGI.
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October 30, 2017
Touts Lower Costs To Serve Retail Customers Than Competitors Earlier: Parent Of TXU Announces Deal To Combine With Dynegy Combined Generation Portfolio Will Serve To Accelerate Growth of Retail Business
During an analyst call on the announcement, in response to a question regarding any market power issues resulting from the merger, Vistra Energy President and Chief Executive Officer Curt Morgan said, "We will need to do some modest mitigation, roughly around 900 MW in ERCOT."
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October 27, 2017
Dynegy announced support for two Illinois bills (SB2250, HB4141) that would require the Illinois Power Agency to procure capacity needs on behalf of all customers at Ameren Illinois, and require competitive retail electric suppliers to execute contracts with capacity suppliers selected by the IPA…
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October 20, 2017
Jason Helms and Jeremiah Collins, formerly of GSE Consulting, LP, have formed International Power Holding Co., "for the express purpose of acquiring retail energy brokerage businesses in North America."
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October 19, 2017
Making modifications required by the Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), the Illinois Commerce Commission adopted new rules governing retail electric supplier marketing.
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October 16, 2017
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted Archer Energy, LLC electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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October 12, 2017
Tenaska Retail Supplier Seeks Authority To Serve New Service Areas
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October 10, 2017
In comments on the Illinois Power Agency's 2018 default service procurement plan, Staff of the Illinois Commerce Commission have recommended granting the IPA additional flexibility to procure more than the targeted amount of capacity at Ameren in a spring procurement event if lower prices would make…
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October 9, 2017
Rebrands, Expanding Company, Names New COO
Just Energy recently acquired the commercial energy brokerage and consulting divisions of Save On Energy, LLC, and has rebranded the acquired division as Interactive Energy Group LLC (IEG)
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