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February 5, 2015
ISO New England's forward capacity auction for the 2018/19 delivery year resulted in a shortfall of resources for the new Southeast Massachusetts/Rhode Island (SEMA/RI) zone.
February 5, 2015
PowerOptions, Inc. applied for a Connecticut electric aggregator certificate to serve all types of non-residential customers.
January 30, 2015
A group of retail suppliers presented a proposal for the electric shopping website to be developed by the Massachusetts DPU.
January 27, 2015
Ambit Energy will enter six new territories this spring, and also announces a partnership to offer solar installations to customers.
January 23, 2015
Unitil (Fitchburg Gas & Electric) has recommended that the Massachusetts DPU eliminate the fixed price default electric service option for medium and large C&I customers.
January 22, 2015
NRG Home Solar announced a new partnership with Upromise by Sallie Mae, a service that helps families pay for college by earning cash back on everyday purchases.
January 20, 2015
NRG Energy is to expand its eVgo electric charging infrastructure and services to 21 markets during the 2015-16 period, it said in an investor presentation last week.
January 13, 2015
Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton announced that Angela O'Connor, who formerly managed the PowerOptions retail energy purchasing group, will serve as Chair of the Department of Public Utilities.
January 12, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has directed retail electric suppliers to circulate a straw proposal regarding the electric shopping website/rate board the Department is developing.
January 7, 2015
Just Energy has entered into a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General under which it will pay $4 million to address allegations that the supplier or its agents engaged in, "deceptive marketing and sales that promised savings but charged significantly higher rates, entered consumers into…
January 2, 2015
Connecticut-based Discount Power, Inc. is now offering electric service in Massachusetts, at Nstar, National Grid, and Western Massachusetts Electric Co.
January 2, 2015
Town Square Energy has begun offering electric service in Massachusetts, at National Grid.
December 18, 2014
National Grid has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new default service rates for industrial customers for the period February through April 2015.
December 17, 2014
The Massachusetts DPU has ordered the termination of Nstar's Green supply program, citing its "unsustainable" design (Docket D.P.U. 13-80).
December 17, 2014
Update: REP Energy said that it has cured the suspension at ISO New England and has re-registered Load Asset IDs. It will be working with customers who were affected and dropped to default service to resume service to them. REP Energy also said that it will compensate customers to the extent they…
December 15, 2014
NRG Home is now offering to customers in its Northeast markets an electricity plan offering "ongoing" Goal Zero products during the term of the plan.
December 12, 2014
The Massachusetts DPU intends to launch a website providing customers with retail electric supplier rates and other information.
December 12, 2014
As part of a wide-ranging proceeding to update a host of retail electric market provisions, the Massachusetts DPU has proposed new provisions governing the assignment of a retail suppliers' customers to another retail supplier.
December 12, 2014
The Massachusetts DPU, as part of a wide-ranging proceeding to update a host of retail electric market provisions, proposes that competitive suppliers who intend to market door-to-door to residential customers be required to provide notice to the Department prior to initiating a door-to-door…
December 12, 2014
As part of a wide-ranging proceeding to update a host of retail electric market provisions, the Massachusetts DPU is proposing to eliminate, for residential and small C&I customers, the basic service cost recalculation applicable to customers who leave basic service for competitive supply.
December 12, 2014
As part of a wide-ranging proceeding to update a host of retail electric market provisions, the Massachusetts DPU will consider changes to the disclosure labels required to be produced by retail electric suppliers.
December 11, 2014
The Massachusetts DPU's position that it may only narrowly review opt-out municipal aggregation plans to determine whether they conform to specific statutory criteria, "creates a substantial void in the regulatory and oversight structure for municipal aggregators, a void that leaves ratepayers and…
December 9, 2014
Champion Energy Services is now "open for business" in Massachusetts, to serve commercial and industrial customers.
December 6, 2014
ISO New England has filed at FERC proposed changes to its minimum capitalization requirements, claiming that the changes are needed to protect market participants against, "thinly capitalized," load serving entities which do not own physical assets.
November 19, 2014
ONEnergy, the parent of Sunwave Gas & Power, has acquired substantially all of the assets of AVACOS Clean Energy for $1.73 million (all $ Canadian).
