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June 13, 2025
Rhythm Energy, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Inspire Clean Energy (Inspire), a provider of subscription-based, 100-percent renewable electricity plans across Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
June 4, 2025
During a June 4 Maryland PSC administrative meeting, a majority of PSC Commissioners expressed concerns with setting residential purchase of receivables discount rates at Pepco, Delmarva, and Washington Gas Light at the levels proposed by utilities and PSC Staff, due to the potential for such…
June 4, 2025
At the June 4 Maryland PSC administrative meeting, during consideration of changes to the purchase of receivables discount rates at several utilities (see related story today) , PSC Staff said that Staff has received "a lot" of "complaints" from residential customers concerning the unavailability of…
June 3, 2025
The Maryland PSC has directed PSC Staff, the Office of People's Counsel, and other stakeholders to collaborate on developing a proposal for the best way to address retail supplier and broker license renewals and license relinquishment requests, inclusive of a process that determines if it is viable…
May 29, 2025
In a letter order dated May 29, the Maryland PSC ordered that increased capacity costs for electricity SOS at Baltimore Gas & Electric shall not be reflected in the mass market SOS rates which take effect June 1, 2025, after having ostensibly approved tariff pages on May 28 which would have included…
May 28, 2025
The Maryland PSC, as part of approving several updates in Baltimore Gas & Electric's SOS electricity rates, approved a change in BGE's "energy rate", for the period June 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025, due to updated capacity costs
May 28, 2025
The Maryland PSC has approved new purchase of receivables discount rates at several utilities, but took under advisement, for disposition in a future order, issues concerning the end of residential POR, including the use of any over-collection balance under residential POR and/or the assignment of…
May 27, 2025
"Support Efforts To Enact Preemptive Retail-Choice Law"
DOJ Notes, "Laws And Regulations Can Undermine Reliability And Affordability By Protecting Incumbent Electricity Providers From Competition Or Disruptive Innovation"
May 22, 2025
R Street released a policy study on electric competition which included grade rankings for each state
May 21, 2025
The District of Columbia PSC has directed a PSC-created task force to develop and file recommendations on what improvements might be made locally to address the impacts of the PJM 2025/2026 delivery year capacity auction on District consumers
May 21, 2025
Currents Energy, Inc., a start-up which provides solar REC marketing and other services as a home electrification advisor, has launched a retail energy shopping service after recently acquiring concierge energy shopping service PowerPicker
May 20, 2025
Consumer Counsel Supports Recommendation That SOS Admin. Charge Be Tied To Or Verified Against Competitive Third-Party Supply Pricing, To Ensure Adder Does Not Undercut Competition
May 20, 2025
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has signed SB 937 which requires "each electricity supplier" to purchase energy storage capacity credits under a state procurement program
May 14, 2025
The Maryland PSC granted Arise Energy, LLC a natural gas broker license to serve C&I customers in all service areas
May 9, 2025
In a summer outlook, PJM said today that under an extreme summer 2025 planning scenario, PJM forecasts that available generation capacity may fall short of the required reserves
May 9, 2025
Pepco in Maryland has proposed an 8% residential purchase of receivables (POR) discount rate as part of winding down POR for residential customers
May 7, 2025
In an order adopting provisions for a statutorily required Do Not Transfer list process, the Maryland PSC has directed the utilities to provide updates concerning any implementation challenges and concerns related to adopting an automatic block (enrollment rejection) for any customer on the Do Not…
May 6, 2025
Horizon Power and Light, LLC applied for Ohio electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas
May 1, 2025
NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER) and New Wave Energy, LLC (New Wave) have entered into a transaction under which NextEra Energy Resources, LLC will indirectly, through its subsidiary NextEra Energy Services New York, LLC (Buyer), acquire 100% of the membership interests in New Wave
April 30, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed various updates to the components of its electricity SOS rates in Maryland
April 30, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed with the Maryland PSC updated purchase of receivables discount rates which BGE said are designed to account for the end of residential POR on December 31, 2025, with BGE also filing a proposal on how to address any unrecovered balances under POR
April 28, 2025
The Maryland PSC has issued an order on refunds and penalties imposed on SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC ("SmartEnergy") related to a finding, affirmed by the Maryland Supreme Court, that SmartEnergy's telephonic enrollments, even though the call was inbound from a customer, were still subject to the wet…
April 24, 2025
Seeks Workgroup On New Marketing Disclosures, Prohibited Language
The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel has recommended that the Maryland PSC establish a workgroup to develop regulatory language implementing PUA § 7-315, which requires certain disclosures by retail suppliers, and empowers the PSC to adopt additional disclosures and/or prohibit the use of certain…
April 14, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC have proposed recommended mechanisms for retail energy suppliers to comply with various new disclosure and posting requirements under 2024's SB1
April 9, 2025
Spartacus Energy of New York LLC filed a retail access application form with the New York PSC, to be registered as an ESCO
