April 4, 2025
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel said in a news release that, "Ratepayers should not be forced to cover the costs of utility proposals to acquire and own energy storage devices located on customer properties because it would impede the developing competitive market for storage and could…
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March 20, 2025
Judge Says Utilities Can't Have, "Unchecked Ability To Provide Potentially Inaccurate ... Information" Utilities Must Provide Accurate & Not Misleading Information, Judge Says
The Chief Public Utility Law Judge (PULJ) of the Maryland PSC has issued a ruling, on motions for summary judgment, finding that a bill message from the utility Washington Gas Light (WGL) which addressed the cleanliness and environmental benefits of natural gas was, "misleading based upon the lack…
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March 14, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric in Maryland has filed a further revision to its mass market SOS energy rates for the period June 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025, as a result of the completion of PJM's 3rd incremental capacity auction (IA) for the delivery year 2025/2026
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March 13, 2025
The Maryland PSC today issued an order on the application and related issues concerning the new residential retail energy price caps. All provisions in this story apply to residential service only.
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March 7, 2025
Implementing Non-POR UCB, "Will Not Be Fast [&] ... Certainly Will Not Be Cheap," Utilities Say, Arguing That Ratepayers Should Not Bear Significant Cost Risk
Neither the Maryland utilities nor retail suppliers filed any new "comprehensive proposals" that were to detail how retail energy suppliers could serve new or renewed residential customers under utility consolidated billing in Maryland without purchase of receivables (POR)
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March 6, 2025
New POR Discount Could Be In 10% Range, Or Higher
The District of Columbia PSC has again instructed Pepco to re-calculate an update to the residential POR discount rate (originally envisioned to take effect in July 2024), as the PSC concluded, "there is no simple way to mitigate a high POR Discount Rate without impacting non-POR ratepayers."
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March 4, 2025
The Maryland PSC has issued an order clarifying the types of RECs which are permitted to be used to offer a green energy electricity product to residential customers in Maryland
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February 28, 2025
Harbor Light Energy, LLC, a Texas-based LLC, was recently formed
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February 27, 2025
Leapfrog Power, Inc. (Leap) filed an application for an electricity broker license in the District of Columbia to serve all customer classes
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February 18, 2025
Arise Energy, LLC applied for a Maryland natural gas broker license to serve C&I customers in all service areas
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February 14, 2025
The Maryland PSC denied, without prejudice, a request from Great American Power, LLC to relinquish Great American Power's electric license, following an earlier assignment of Great American Power's Maryland customers to Powervine Energy
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February 12, 2025
Winning prices from New Jersey's electricity Basic Generation Service auction for residential and small commercial customers (BGS-RSCP) spiked about 40% versus the tranches being replaced in the laddered portfolio
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February 11, 2025
In noting the assignment of certain retail energy customer contracts from Tomorrow Energy to Major Energy, the Maryland PSC has directed Major Energy to report to the PSC, on an ongoing basis, various data on complaints
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February 10, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed at the Maryland PSC to modify its electric and gas tariffs to remove the requirement that BGE make customer lists available for purchase by retail suppliers
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February 7, 2025
Clarifies Expiration Dates & Deadlines
The Maryland PSC has issued an updated version of an order issued on January 31, 2025 concerning the license expiration dates and renewal deadlines for all retail energy suppliers (with the term supplier as used by the PSC and in this story also encompassing marketers, brokers, and aggregators)
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February 6, 2025
Eligo Energy MD, LLC filed at the Maryland PSC to relinquish its natural gas supplier license
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February 6, 2025
In response to a request for reconsideration of a recent Maryland PSC decision which prohibits utility consolidated billing for any new or renewed residential customer, the Maryland PSC issued further specific direction to retail suppliers and utilities to negotiate on a form of UCB without POR for…
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February 4, 2025
The Maryland PSC has opened Case 9778 to address issues concerning "retail grid services" including, but not limited to, implementation of virtual power plants (VPPs)
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February 3, 2025
Executing a directive under SB1, the Maryland PSC has opened a new proceeding to address various language to be used by retail energy suppliers in disclosures, and language which is prohibited in marketing
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February 3, 2025
DPU Concludes Supplier Made "False Statement"
The Massachusetts DPU denied the electric supplier application of New England Power and Light LLC (NEPL) as the DPU said that NEPL, "cannot meet the Department's consumer protection standards."
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January 31, 2025
Note: The information in this story reflects materials publicly posted by the Maryland PSC as of 5:20 pm ET, Jan. 31, 2025
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January 29, 2025
JT Consulting, LLC applied for a Maryland electric broker license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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January 29, 2025
A small number of MidAmerican Energy Services, LLC's customers in Maryland won't be included in the previously reported assignment of MidAmerican Energy Services's retail electric customers to Constellation, as MidAmerican Energy Services cited a change in regulatory requirements
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January 27, 2025
Suppliers Seek Stay Of Dual Billing Requirement, Attendant Drop Of Customers To SOS If Supplier Can't Dual Bill
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) and CleanChoice Energy Inc. (the supplier coalition) have proposed at the Maryland PSC a mechanism under which utility consolidated billing could continue for new and renewed customers, while also ensuring that receivables for such customers are not…
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January 27, 2025
Washington Gas Light in Maryland reported that, since December 2024, it received drop notifications for about 25% of its residential choice customers
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