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September 26, 2022
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed with the DPU a proposed alternative basic service procurement plan for its large industrial customer group (General Service – Demand G-2 customers, and General Service – Time-of-Use G-3 customers), after it did not award any supply for the industrial customer…
September 22, 2022
The Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General has requested that the state's Department of Public Utilities consider "reforms" to the procurement of electricity supplies for basic service (default service), and to consider ways to lessen the impact of the winter basic service rates
September 21, 2022
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed new basic service (default service) electric rates for the period beginning November 1, 2022.
September 20, 2022
Competitive Energy Services (CES) and Risk Services Group (RSG) announced that, effective September 8, 2022, CES has acquired RSG’s electricity and natural gas procurement consulting business.
September 6, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC formally opened an investigatory proceeding to examine all pertinent aspects of RPS, electricity Default Service, and COG [gas utility cost-of-gas] procurements in New Hampshire, and related Commission processes.
September 2, 2022
In Massachusetts, Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has proposed new Standard Complete Billing Percentages (SCBPs, aka POR discount rates) in an annual Purchase of Receivables filing
August 18, 2022
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil (the Company) filed at the Massachusetts DPU for approval of an alternative approach to procuring and pricing basic service, "which is designed to address uncertainty relative to the Fitchburg municipal aggregation."
July 22, 2022
Bill Sent To Gov. Requires Investigation Of Advantages & Disadvantages Of RTOs, Other Market Mechanisms In Facilitating Green Energy
July 22, 2022
A Massachusetts conference committee has reached a compromise on a broad-reaching climate bill, with the conference version of the bill, which has been passed by both houses and sent to the Governor, omitting language from a Senate version which would have prohibited individual retail electric…
July 11, 2022
A petition signed by more than 1,000 Bay State residents was shared with Massachusetts lawmakers today urging the protection of the competitive electric market in Massachusetts.
June 30, 2022
Utility Expense Reduction, LLC (UER) has agreed to a consent judgment under which it will pay $1.65 million to resolve allegations that, as alleged by the Massachusetts Attorney General, "it knowingly failed to make payments to the state under three state environmental programs."
June 29, 2022
With electricity rates set to soar to, "record high prices," this summer, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey today launched a campaign to, "educate customers across the state about the programs available to help them reduce their energy usage and lower their bills."
June 27, 2022
Sunwave USA Holdings Inc. d/b/a Sunwave Gas & Power is dropping its Ohio electricity customers to default service and filed to relinquish its Ohio electric supplier license
June 22, 2022
In a statement concerning its opposition to pending legislation in Massachusetts that would ban new and renewed competitive residential retail electric contracts (excluding municipal aggregation), Clearview Energy reported its Massachusetts customer count
June 22, 2022
CleanChoice Energy announced a new partnership with SmartAC.com, an HVAC monitoring service, "to provide greater energy efficiency and reduce energy waste in users' homes."
June 9, 2022
Octopus Energy has received…
June 7, 2022
The Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) noted that a proposed prohibition on new individual retail electricity contracts for residential customers in…
May 23, 2022
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, 2022
May 16, 2022
NSTAR (Eversource Energy) filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for…
April 29, 2022
Residential Discount Falling From 3% to 1.4% At One Utility
A retail energy regulator has conditionally approved the alternative calculations of POR discount rates
April 14, 2022
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell New Energies US LLC announced plans to engage directly with consumers about
March 28, 2022
Resulting New Default Service Rates Falling 12% For Mass Market Customers
An EDC has filed new default service rates for the period beginning June 1, 2022.
March 28, 2022
Supplier, Which Has Been Focused On C&I, Will Soon Beta Residential Service
A retail energy supplier today announced the closing of a $20.5 million Series A round of funding, co-led by
March 25, 2022
A PUC has granted…
March 21, 2022
Denies Request For More Frequent True-up Between Potentially Unlinked Retail Rates, Wholesale Costs
A retail energy regulator has approved an alternative electricity basic service (default service) procurement mechanism at
