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October 16, 2021
In comments to the Massachusetts DPU, Colonial Power Group (CPG) urged Unitil (Fitchburg Gas and Electric) to submit plans or alternatives for the provision of basic (default) service for its residential and small general customers, "given the high likelihood that the City of Fitchburg will launch…
October 8, 2021
Freedom Energy Logistics (Freedom Energy) and Colonial Power Group (CPG) announced a strategic partnership concerning services to municipalities in New Hampshire, with a focus on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), as well as municipalities' own accounts.
October 8, 2021
Deferral Would Be Recovered From All Distribution Customers
Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) has reached a compromise to cap an upcoming increase in default service (basic service) electric rates, for the period starting December 1, 2021, and asked the Massachusetts DPU to approve the capped rates
October 4, 2021
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU electric basic service rates for the period beginning December 1, 2021.
September 27, 2021
Under a recently conducted procurement managed by Freedom Energy Logistics, First Point Power was selected for a three-year contract to supply electricity to 200 municipal accounts of the City of Salem, MA
September 24, 2021
The City of Boston, which operates an opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity, has renewed its request for reconsideration at the Massachusetts DPU in which the City is seeking an order from the DPU to require Nstar to share a list of currently shopping customers with the City
September 15, 2021
Retail energy supplier Inspire announced that it has officially completed its acquisition agreement with Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
September 13, 2021
Utiliz Services, LLC registered with the Public Utility Commission of Texas as a Texas electric broker
September 9, 2021
Enel North America (Enel) announced today that it has signed an agreement with Kraft Sports + Entertainment to supply Gillette Stadium with, "locally generated, zero emission clean energy through renewable energy credits (RECs)."
August 10, 2021
National Grid and Nstar have both filed proposals with the Massachusetts DPU on how to address reconciliation of the Standard Complete Billing Percentages (SCBPs) -- the term of purchase of receivables (POR) discounts -- given the DPU's prior order to maintain the current SCBPs
July 27, 2021
Shell New Energies US LLC (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, has signed an agreement to buy 100% of the equity interests of Inspire Energy Capital LLC (Inspire), a renewable energy residential retail energy supplier with joint headquarters in Santa Monica, CA and Philadelphia, PA.
June 8, 2021
The Massachusetts DPU has rescinded its prior "request" that retail energy suppliers and marketers cease door-to-door marketing
May 28, 2021
Regulator's Staff Says That Variable Rate Contracts Cannot Be Assigned Under Statute
Starion Energy, Inc. and Major Energy Electric Services, LLC, a brand of Spark Energy, have filed a notice with the Connecticut PURA for the assignment of more than 18,000 Starion Energy electricity customers to Major Energy (as the customer count was stated in a PURA Staff filing)
May 25, 2021
Spark Energy, Inc. ("Spark" or the "Company") announced today that it has executed four separate agreements to acquire a total of approximately 56,900 residential customer equivalents ("RCEs") for a total purchase price of $11.5 million, consisting of approximately 15,700 RCEs in Connecticut's…
May 19, 2021
Proposes Limitation On Low-Income Customer Products
Staff of the Massachusetts DPU as well as a group of competitive suppliers have filed straw proposals addressing various Tier II issues in the DPU's ongoing review of the retail energy markets (Docket 19-07)
May 17, 2021
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning July 1, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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May 10, 2021
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO, for the period beginning July 1, 2021
May 3, 2021
Normal Annual Revisions Would Have Resulted In Negative POR Discount Rates
The Massachusetts DPU, at both Eversource (Nstar, East & West) and National Grid has ordered that the currently effective purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages) shall remain in effect, subject to investigation and reconciliation, unless the Department orders…
April 30, 2021
The City of Boston has filed a letter directed to Massachusetts DPU Chair Matthew Nelson requesting that Nelson withdraw a December letter which directed the City to stop marketing the discount Boston is working to offer to low-income (R-2) customers in its op-out municipal aggregation, using SMART…
April 6, 2021
Retail energy suppliers Atlantic Energy LLC ("Atlantic Energy"), Atlantic Energy MD, LLC ("Atlantic Energy MD"), and Atlantic Energy MA LLC ("Atlantic Energy MA," and collectively with Atlantic Energy and Atlantic Energy MD, "Applicants") have entered into a transaction under which Gainline Equity…
April 5, 2021
Greater Boston Legal Services said in a news release that the parties in Fuentes et al. v. SFE Energy Massachusetts, Inc., a case in which the plaintiffs had brought a suit seeking class action status which was filed in Massachusetts Superior Court (Middlesex County), have reached a settlement.
April 1, 2021
Hull Street Energy announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the ownership interests in the Waterbury Generation facility from a subsidiary of ENGIE North America.
April 1, 2021
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a report that found, "in the last five years, individual residential customers who received their electricity from competitive suppliers paid $426 million more on their bills than they would have paid if they had stayed with their utility…
March 22, 2021
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) today published a report's findings on competitive retail electric choice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
