September 5, 2025
The Maryland PSC issued a follow-up order on utility energy storage proposals that outlines how the PSC will consider proposals for utility-owned energy storage projects in the future
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September 4, 2025
Maryland PSC Staff have requested that the PSC initiate the annual proceeding to determine the price at which retail electric suppliers may offer green power to residential customers
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September 3, 2025
The Maryland PSC has approved proposed revisions, from the Office of People's Counsel, to the mechanism meant to address risk to SOS suppliers and customers from the potential start of an opt-out municipal aggregation (CCA) at Montgomery County, Maryland
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August 27, 2025
ENGIE Power & Gas LLC intends to assign approximately 447 small business, large business, and industrial Pennsylvania retail natural gas sales contracts to New Wave Energy, LLC, which is ultimately a unit of NextEra Energy, pursuant to a purchase agreement by and among New Wave, NextEra Energy…
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August 27, 2025
The Maryland PSC has declined to order that SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC d/b/a SmartEnergy shall include in customer refund letters, issued pursuant to a prior PSC order, language sought by the Office of People's Counsel concerning the non-waiver of the customer's legal claims
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August 27, 2025
The Maryland PSC today accepted Potomac Edison's proposal to not implement a mechanism that would automatically reject a switch request if the customer appears on Potomac Edison's Do Not Transfer list
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August 26, 2025
New Bypassable Costs May Not Be Reflected In Consumer-Facing Info, Based On Website Description State's First Opt-out Aggregation Won't Start For Another Year
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has proposed revisions to the mechanism meant to address risk to SOS suppliers and customers from the potential start of an opt-out municipal aggregation (CCA) at Montgomery County, Maryland
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August 25, 2025
Snyder Brothers Inc. applied for a Maryland natural gas supplier license to serve all eligible customer classes in all service areas, including residential customers where eligible (BGE, WGL).
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August 20, 2025
ENGIE Power & Gas LLC intends to assign approximately 1,382 mercantile and non-residential non-mercantile Ohio retail natural gas sales contracts to New Wave Energy, LLC, which is ultimately a unit of NextEra Energy, pursuant to a purchase agreement by and among New Wave, NextEra Energy Services…
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August 19, 2025
ENGIE Power & Gas LLC intends to assign approximately 368 non-residential Maryland retail natural gas sales contracts to New Wave Energy, LLC, which is ultimately a unit of NextEra Energy, pursuant to a purchase agreement by and among New Wave, NextEra Energy Services Midwest, LLC, and ENGIE Power &…
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August 6, 2025
The Maryland PSC granted Gas South, LLC a natural gas supplier license to serve commercial and industrial customers in all service areas
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July 22, 2025
Capacity prices for the Rest of RTO region in PJM's base residual auction for the 2026-27 delivery year spiked 21% to $329.17 per MW-day, compared to the price from the 2025-26 BRA, with the latest capacity price increase coming during a time in which lawmakers in several PJM states have discussed…
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July 16, 2025
EnergyNation Solutions, LLC, the recently formed retail energy broker at which W. Keith Maxwell III was listed as Managing Member at the time of EnergyNation Solutions, LLC's formation in early 2025, applied for a Maryland electric broker license to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
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July 14, 2025
Pepco in the District of Columbia has sought approval of an agreement for a bundled procurement of renewable energy and Tier One renewable energy credits from a solar facility, to serve approximately 7% of total SOS load
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July 2, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC said that changing the financial requirements for retail energy supplier licensing outside of a rulemaking could violate state court precedent which has found that orders adopting new regulations outside of rulemakings have no effect.
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June 30, 2025
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel proposed several changes to retail energy supplier licensing requirements, including a tiered bond structure based on customers served
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June 24, 2025
As part of an order issued today addressing the procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices, the Maryland PSC denied a proposal, which the PSC termed "the Exelon proposal", for a Utility-Owned Residential Customer Sited BTM BESS program
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June 23, 2025
NRG Business Marketing LLC applied for an amended Maryland natural gas supplier license to include service to commercial and industrial customers in the service areas of Chesapeake Utilities, Inc., and Pivotal Utility Holdings, Inc., d/b/a Elkton Gas
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June 23, 2025
Several Maryland utilities have raised cost concerns regarding implementing a system change to accomplish the automatic rejection, by the utility, of retail supplier enrollments for customers on the utility's Do Not Transfer (DNT) list
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June 19, 2025
Constellation and Treehouse, which is described as a software-enabled installation platform for electrification projects, today announced a new agreement under which Constellation Home, Constellation’s home services business, and Treehouse will offer customers, "a seamless and intuitive level 2 home…
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June 18, 2025
The District of Columbia PSC approved an 11% residential purchase of receivables discount rate at Pepco, as the PSC, in a separate order, also opened a generic inquiry on the future of POR (see related story today for more on the new inquiry)
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June 18, 2025
The District of Columbia PSC has formally initiated, "an inquiry into the adequacy of the," purchases of receivables programs at Pepco and Washington Gas Light
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June 18, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC reported that Potomac Edison (PE) has informed Staff that Potomac Edison intends to cease providing to retail suppliers an "interested customer" by the end of 2025
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June 18, 2025
During today's Maryland PSC administrative meeting, as the PSC addressed a Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative tariff filing related to SOS, Commissioner Michael Richard praised SMECO's portfolio approach to SOS given the current PJM capacity market
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June 13, 2025
The Maryland PSC issued letter orders today approving 100-200% increases in purchase of receivables discount rates at several utilities, and addressed any reconciliations after the end of residential POR in a two-step process.
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