July 24, 2014
Retail Supplier Names New CEO
energy.me has named Jeremy Schupp as its new CEO.
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July 18, 2014
Maryland Staff: OPC Should Have Access to Retail Suppliers' Confidential Filings in Marketing, Customer Protection Review
The Office of People's Counsel should have access, subject to a confidentiality agreement, to confidential materials submitted by Maryland retail energy suppliers as part of a generic PSC investigation into marketing practices and customer protections (PC 35), Maryland PSC Staff have recommended
July 11, 2014
PSC Concedes Fine on Broker Was "Excessive" Reduces It By Nearly 50%
The Maryland PSC has reduced a fine imposed on Burton Energy Group, Inc. for brokering natural gas supply without a license agreeing, that the initial fine was "excessive."
July 10, 2014
State Requires Utility to Not Send Enrollment Notices in Contract Assignment Situation, Directs Further Study of Issue
The Maryland PSC granted a request from NRG Residential Solutions and directed Baltimore Gas & Electric to suppress "enrollment" notices that would otherwise be triggered and sent to customers of Dominion Retail which are being transferred to NRG after NRG purchased the Dominion Retail electric…
July 9, 2014
Maryland Now Seeks Offer Data from Latest PJM Capacity Auction
Maryland is the latest state to seek confidential offer data from the recent 2017/18 PJM Base Residual Auction
July 9, 2014
Park Power to Launch Service in Three New States
Park Power announced that it will soon launch retail electric service in Ohio, Illinois, and Maryland.
July 7, 2014
PSC Staff Recommend Change in Utility Enrollment Letter to Reflect Customers Assignment, Suggest Generic Investigation
Staff of the Maryland PSC have recommended that the Commission direct Baltimore Gas & Electric to change the language of a customer notice triggered by a change in a customer's electric supplier which currently is written as if the change is a new enrollment, but is still being produced and sent in…
July 3, 2014
License Briefs
Pro-Star Energy Services Receives License in New State
July 1, 2014
Baltimore Gas & Electric Files New SOS Rates
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new Type II SOS rates for the three-month period beginning September 1, 2014.
July 1, 2014
Supplier Rate Caps, Elimination of POR for Variable Rate Floated As Solutions to Customer Switching, Billing Issues
A Maryland working group charged with exploring the expansion of budget billing to competitive supply and permanently accelerating the switching timeline also addressed more holistically issues which caused unexpectedly high bills for certain electric customers this winter, prompting the workgroup…
June 27, 2014
How Many Residential Customers Have Left Competitive Electric Supply in Maryland This Year?
The Maryland retail electric market saw a net loss of 18,000 residential electric customers on competitive supply from December 31, 2013 to May 31, 2014, according to stats published by the PSC.
June 27, 2014
License Briefs
The Energy Co-op Seeks to Serve Customers in New Territories
June 24, 2014
License Briefs
North American Power Seeks Authority to Serve New Territory
June 23, 2014
License Briefs
The Maryland PSC granted Clearview Electric, Inc. d/b/a Clearview Energy a natural gas supplier license.
June 23, 2014
Disposition of Pennsylvania Attorney General Complaint Could End Telemarketing Sales in State
The disposition of five complaints brought by the Pennsylvania Attorney General against electric suppliers could end effective retail energy telemarketing in the state if such disposition establishes a precedent for interpretation of the state's Telemarketer Registration Act.
June 19, 2014
Potomac Edison Files New SOS Rates
Potomac Edison has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the three-month period beginning September 1, 2014
June 17, 2014
Retail Supplier Sees Higher Attrition As a Result of Utility Welcome Letters to Inorganic Customer Acquisitions; Asks PSC to Cease Letters Since No 'Enrollment' Occurred
Citing an increase in attrition from utility enrollment notification letters sent to customers being served by a new supplier after the acquisition of a customer book, NRG Residential Solutions has requested that the Maryland PSC direct Baltimore Gas & Electric to cease issuance of such letters in…
June 12, 2014
License Briefs
Ambit Northeast, LLC applied for a Maine electric supplier license to serve residential and small non-residential customers at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric.
June 12, 2014
PSC Denies License to Broker Over Training Material Concerns, Alleged Misrepresentation
The Maryland PSC has denied the applications of Trusted Energy, LLC for electric and natural gas broker licenses.
June 12, 2014
Nordic Energy To Expand Service To 10 States in 2014
Nordic Energy Services, LLC announced yesterday that it will be entering 10 new states in 2014.
June 10, 2014
New IPP Talen Energy to Acquire PPL Retail Supplier, 15,000 MW of Merchant Generation
PPL Corporation and Riverstone Holdings LLC announced a definitive agreement to combine their merchant power generation businesses into a new stand-alone, publicly traded independent power producer.
June 4, 2014
License Briefs
Retail Electric Supplier to Expand to Natural Gas
May 29, 2014
PSC Limits Supplier's License to Non-Residential Service, Presumably Due to Complaint Concerns
The Maryland PSC granted Discount Power, Inc. an electric supplier license, but limited the authority granted under the license to serving commercial and industrial customers.
May 28, 2014
IDT Energy Officially Launches Home Services and Energy Rewards
IDT Energy, Inc. officially announced the availability of IDT Energy Home Services and IDT Energy Rewards.
May 27, 2014
Backbreaking: Capacity Prices Double in Latest PJM Auction
Rest of RTO capacity prices in PJM increased by 100% in PJM's 2017/18 Base Residual Auction.