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July 1, 2015
Attorneys General from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, along with PowerOptions, Freedom Energy Logistics, and several consumer advocates sent a letter to ISO-New England and New England electric transmission owners urging the companies to develop a transparent process that allows all stakeholders…
June 30, 2015
The Massachusetts Attorney General has submitted a proposed disclosure label to the DPU for use by retail electric suppliers, and the label notably would require retail suppliers to list default service rates on their disclosure labels.
June 29, 2015
During an investor day last week, Dynegy outlined growth plans for its retail electric supply business.
June 29, 2015
Direct Energy has entered an agreement to acquire all the assets of an appliance rental company based in the Northeast United States for $4.5 million, the company said in a news release
June 18, 2015
National Grid has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new industrial basic service rates for the period August 1, 2015 through October 31, 2015
June 11, 2015
As noted in our related story today concerning the spinoff of MidAmerican Energy Company's unregulated retail services division from the utility into a stand-alone retail supplier inside Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company, MidAmerican's indirect parent company, MidAmerican said that the unregulated…
June 10, 2015
Direct Energy Solar petitioned the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities for a limited exception from the state's Net Metering Regulations at 220 C.M.R. § 18.00, et seq.
June 8, 2015
As part of a new proceeding regarding energy storage (D.P.U. 15-ESC-12), the Massachusetts DPU has sought comment on utility ownership of energy storage Specifically, the DPU asked:
June 1, 2015
FERC accpeted a filing from ISO New England that identifies two potential new boundaries for Capacity Zones for ISO-NE’s tenth Forward Capacity Auction (FCA 10).
June 1, 2015
Harborside Energy of Massachusetts, LLC plans to sell electricity to retail end use customers located in New England and has a pending application for an electric supplier’s license before the Massachusetts DPU.
May 27, 2015
After conducting a second RFP, Nstar has awarded contracts to serve large commercial and industrial customers in the NEMA load zone for the three-month period beginning July 1, 2015, and has filed new basic service rates with the DPU.
May 26, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has proposed that the basic service bill recalculation apply to all municipal aggregation electric customers, except in cases where the aggregation is initiated coincident with the start of one of the basic service pricing terms.
May 21, 2015
Nordic Energy Services, LLC named Michael Stein as Vice President of Finance.
May 21, 2015
Nstar has filed new electric basic service rates for the period beginning July 1, 2015, and the fixed rate for residential and small C&I customers remains above (or near) 10¢/kWh.
May 20, 2015
Massachusetts should require that retail electric supply plans, which include an automatic renewal, that are posted on the state's forthcoming electric shopping website renew for a term of at least 12 months, the Massachusetts Attorney General told the DPU
May 20, 2015
Massachusetts should impose a fee on competitive retail electric suppliers who seek to use a forthcoming state-administered electricity shopping website and rate board, Nstar and WMECO (Eversource) said in comments to the DPU
May 15, 2015
Western Massachusetts Electric Company has filed basic service rates for the period beginning July 1, 2015, and while lower than the winter rates, residential and small commercial fixed rates will still be nearly 10¢/kWh.
May 13, 2015
ONEnergy Inc., the parent of retail supplier Sunwave Gas & Power, announced a sales and distribution agreement with LG Chem Inc. under which ONEnergy's Sunwave Energy Efficiency division will distribute and market LG Chem's lithium ion-based Energy Storage Systems (ESS).
May 7, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has issued proposed rules for a DPU retail electricity rate board and shopping website.
May 6, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU approved a revised municipal aggregation plan for the Cape Light Compact, dismissing various concerns raised by the Attorney General, as either irrelevant to the aggregation plan itself, or outside of the DPU's jurisdiction.
May 4, 2015
FERC issued an order issuing a civil penalty in the amount of $5 million against Maxim Power Corporation and affiliates.
May 4, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU allowed new purchase of receivables discount rates at three utilities to take effect May 1, 2015, subject to further review and reconciliation similar to other annual reconciliation filings (e.g. basic service reconciliation factors).
May 4, 2015
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed at the Massachusetts DPU to implement a purchase of receivables program with a 5% discount rate for residential customers.
April 29, 2015
Town Square Energy is now offering residential electricity at Nstar, Western Massachusetts Electric Co., and Unitil.
April 14, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU yesterday issued an order eliminating the electric basic service bill recalculation for residential and small C&I customers, effective immediately
