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May 3, 2023
The Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) today released an analysis, using only the offers available on the state-managed website, EnergySwitchMA.gov, which REAL said shows that if all Massachusetts customers had enrolled with the lowest available fixed-rate offer from a retail provider…
May 2, 2023
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell released a report that, as stated by the AG's office, "found that in the last six years, individual residential customers who received their electric supply from competitive suppliers paid $525 million more on their electric bills than they would…
April 24, 2023
SmartestEnergy US announced that it has launched in the ISO New England region, initially with service at Connecticut Light and Power, United Illuminating, and National Grid (Massachusetts), serving medium and large C&I customers on fully fixed products
April 10, 2023
A regulatory proceeding has revealed the purchaser of a retail electricity customer book in a recent book sale
March 15, 2023
Nstar has filed with the Massachusetts DPU proposed new standard complete billing percentages (SCBPs), or purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, proposed to be effective May 1, 2023
March 15, 2023
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed new basic service (default service) electric rates for the period beginning May 1, 2023.
March 15, 2023
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed an update to the standard complete billing percentages (SCBPs), or purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, proposed to be effective May 1, 2023
March 13, 2023
The ISO New England Forward Capacity Market (FCA 17) for the 2026-27 term cleared at a preliminary price of $2.590 per kilowatt-month (kW-month) in all zones and import interfaces except the New Brunswick interface, which cleared at $2.551 per kW-month.
February 9, 2023
Wholesale Supplier Proposes Longer Term Fixed Procurements Of Default Service (Fixed Volume Financial Block)
February 6, 2023
Think Energy, LLC announced the launch of the newly rebranded ThinkEnergy.com and multiple new sales channels including a customer referral program called the Free Energy Club and a network marketing sales channel called Think+.
January 20, 2023
Mega Energy New England, LLC is selling its Massachusetts commercial customer book, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing in Connecticut
January 19, 2023
CSD Energy Advisors, a Texas-based energy management solutions provider, announced that it has further expanded into the national retail energy market with the acquisition of New York-based Novo Energy Services, a broker, energy consulting, and advisory firm operating out of New York City, Cape Cod…
January 13, 2023
Start-up Energy Zebra LLC applied for Ohio electric and natural gas broker licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas
January 4, 2023
The Massachusetts DPU has opened a new investigation into the procurement and pricing of electricity basic service (default service), and set forth a straw proposal, "for ways in which the Department could consider modifying its existing basic service procurement and pricing policies to better serve…
January 3, 2023
Telesales Agents Engaging With Customers Must Be "Fully Conversant" In Consumer Protections Governing Retail Energy, Regulator Says
December 19, 2022
On rehearing, the Massachusetts DPU affirmed its prior finding that customer lists provided to municipal aggregations are limited to those customers who are eligible for opt-out aggregation, and therefore the lists shall not include competitive retail customers who are shopping.
December 12, 2022
The Massachusetts DPU denied a petition from National Grid which had sought to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their…
November 18, 2022
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning January 1, 2023
November 17, 2022
Utility Says Action Would Lower SOS Rates In Time Of Rising Prices
National Grid has filed a petition at the Massachusetts DPU to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their actual costs…
November 16, 2022
Alleges Municipal Aggregations Failing To Maintain Current Pricing On Their Websites
Regulator Says Statutory Mandate For Program Reliability Includes Assurances That Program Will Operate Without Interruption & That Municipality Has Necessary Technical Expertise
November 15, 2022
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 January 1, 2023
November 9, 2022
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, D, has been elected as the governor of Massachusetts
October 31, 2022
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) announces the addition of CleanSky Energy as a member
October 12, 2022
MyPower Corp. ("MyPower"), an affiliate of Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui"), announced the full acquisition of Solstice Power Technologies, Inc. ("Solstice").
September 27, 2022
Responding to a request from the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Massachusetts DPU said that, "In regards to examining rules governing future procurement of basic service, the Department intends to open such an investigation after the resolution of the short-term procurement proposals pending…
