August 2, 2019
The Maryland PSC has again denied a request from the Office of People's Counsel for the utilities to provide OPC with the total aggregate amounts that shopping customers paid in retail supply charges and the total aggregate amount such customers would have paid for default service from the utility.
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July 30, 2019
Nordic Energy Services, LLC announced the hiring of Jack Deering and John Rooney.
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July 25, 2019
Baltimore Gas and Electric, Pepco, and Delmarva have each filed with the Maryland PSC tariff revisions to their Electricity Supplier Coordination Tariff to establish a process by which retail electric suppliers must transfer, to the utility, credits, which the suppliers receive from the PJM…
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July 22, 2019
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning September 1, 2019
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July 22, 2019
AltaGas Ltd. announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of its portfolio of U.S. distributed generation assets held by its subsidiaries WGL Energy Systems, Inc. and WGSW, Inc., to TerraForm Power, Inc., an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, for total gross…
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July 19, 2019
The Maryland PSC had approved a timeline proposed by a working group for the implementation of supplier consolidated billing for electricity and natural gas
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July 17, 2019
PSC Chair: Supplier's Action Has Likely "Set Back Progress" Of Retail Competition Commissioner: "Sad Day" For Retail Choice, Companies Engaged In Such Behavior "Should Not Be Doing Business"
In addressing a complaint filed by Maryland PSC Staff against Smart One Energy, LLC ("Smart One" or "SOE") for, among other things, allegedly not obtaining 'wet signatures' for telephonic enrollments, Maryland PSC Chair Jason M. Stanek said that the supplier's actions have likely "set back" the…
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July 16, 2019
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has requested that the Maryland PSC issue an order providing that Smart One Energy, LLC may not charge any of its customers a rate in excess of the default service rate, as OPC also sought a $950,000 fine on Smart One Energy, LLC
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July 15, 2019
Staff of the Maryland PSC have requested that the Commission issue a fine of $170,000 to Smart One Energy, LLC ("Smart One" or "SOE") for, among other things, allegedly not obtaining 'wet signatures' for telephonic enrollments
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July 15, 2019
The Maryland PSC has dismissed a complaint against Atlantic Energy MD LLC that had been filed by Technical Staff of the Commission
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July 9, 2019
A new electricity broker, Lexus Power LLC, has been formed by Jeffrey Gomez Sr. and Lucia Escobedo
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July 4, 2019
A Maryland Supplier Consolidated Billing (SCB) Work Group has filed with the Maryland PSC a proposed timeline for the implementation of Supplier Consolidated Billing.
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July 1, 2019
A subsidiary of Duke Energy today announced it will acquire a portfolio of distributed fuel cell technology projects from Bloom Energy Corporation, as part of the company’s efforts to serve commercial and industrial customers’ evolving energy needs and provide behind-the-meter generation.
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June 28, 2019
Baltimore Gas and Electric has filed with the Maryland PSC updates to its bypassable transmission rates, and, due to the updated transmission rate, a revised bypassable SOS Administrative Charge, due to the impact of the new transmission rate on the cash working capital (CWC) component of the Admin…
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June 26, 2019
A group of retail electric suppliers filed a motion to intervene in the newly filed electric rate case of Baltimore Gas & Electric, where the Maryland PSC will address a proposal from BGE to reflect, in the bypassable SOS Administrative Adjustment, costs of providing SOS that are not currently…
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June 21, 2019
Says Data Voluntarily Provided By One Utility Shows Low-Income Customers Paying More Than SOS Renews Call For PSC To Require All Utilities To Report On Costs Paid By Retail Choice Customers Versus Default Service
In comments on an FY 2020 plan concerning the electric universal service program (EUSP) in Maryland, the Office of People’s Counsel said that low-income customers on competitive retail electric supply at the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) have incurred, "massive net losses" versus…
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June 19, 2019
Validity Of Initials (Used In E-TPV) As Valid Signature In Dispute One Supplier Concedes It Did Not Obtain Wet Signature After Telesales, As Generally Required In Maryland
Several retail suppliers responded to separate show cause orders issued by the Maryland PSC.
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June 18, 2019
Potomac Edison has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the three-month period beginning September 1, 2019
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June 18, 2019
Delmarva Power has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning September 1, 2019.
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June 18, 2019
Pepco has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning September 1, 2019
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June 13, 2019
PSC "Looks Forward" To "Robust" Retail Supplier Participation
The Maryland PSC has adopted a final RFP for retail electric suppliers to propose load shaping pilot programs and directed Baltimore Gas and Electric, Pepco, and Delmarva Power to each issue an RFP (PC44)
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May 30, 2019
The Maryland PSC approved new Purchase Of Receivables (POR) discount rates at Potomac Edison, effective June 1, 2019
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May 30, 2019
The Maryland PSC approved updated purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates for electricity and natural gas at Baltimore Gas & Electric, effective June 1, 2019
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May 28, 2019
In Rate Case, BGE Seeks To Set Bypassable SOS Administrative Adjustment Component To 1 Mill Per kWh
In a newly filed electric rate case, Baltimore Gas & Electric filed a cost analysis for the SOS Administrative Adjustment component of the bypassable SOS Administrative Charge, and proposed to set the SOS Administrative Adjustment at 1 mill per kWh
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May 24, 2019
Baltimore Gas & Electric has withdrawn a filing to revise, effective June 1, 2019, its bypassable electric transmission rates, a component of SOS
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