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July 20, 2016
Customers formerly on a "day-night" rate at NYSEG were enrolled into the Sustainable Westchester opt-out municipal aggregation (which has a flat rate) have been asking SW to institute a day-night rate, as SW asked the PSC to require NYSEG to share data concerning day-night customers
July 20, 2016
The New York PSC's written order adopting a moratorium which prohibits ESCOs from serving Assistance Program Participant (APP) customers cited Direct Energy as proposing a moratorium, but in adopting a moratorium, the PSC departed significantly from Direct Energy's proposal, which was an alternative…
July 18, 2016
The New York's PSC's new moratorium on ESCOs serving customers participating in utility low-income assistance programs (Assistance Program Participant, or APP) bizarrely does not apply to opt-out municipal aggregations, the PSC's written order confirms
July 18, 2016
The New York PSC has issued a written order imposing a moratorium on ESCO service to low-income customers, which explains how treatment of existing low-income ESCO customers, or ESCO customers who later become eligible for low-income protections, are to be treated.
July 15, 2016
As first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com yesterday (click here) , the New York PSC has adopted a moratorium on low-income customer participation in the retail electric and natural gas markets, in an action that PSC Staff said they believe (though not familiar with every state) to be the first of…
July 15, 2016
Audrey Zibelman, Chair of the New York PSC, took note of what she described as "problems" in the Texas retail electric market during yesterday's New York PSC meeting
July 14, 2016
The New York PSC has adopted a "moratorium" on ESCO service to low-income electric and natural gas customers
July 13, 2016
Entergy Corporation announced today that it is in discussions with Exelon Corporation for the potential sale of Entergy's James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, NY.
July 12, 2016
Staff of the New York PSC have informed Niagara Mohawk that NiMo's proposed update to its Clifton Park, NY Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration project, which includes what is essentially a utility-directed opt-out municipal aggregation program coordinated with the town which has about 15,000…
July 11, 2016
Staff of the New York PSC have issued a revised proposal for a zero emission credit (ZEC) program, designed to provide out-of-market subsidies to nuclear power plants, which would require ESCOs and other LSEs to purchase ZECs.
July 8, 2016
The Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance (MEGA) has filed a "generic" implementation plan for an opt-out municipal aggregation with the New York PSC
July 7, 2016
LifeEnergy (LS Power Retail Supplier Affiliate) Seeks License In New State
July 6, 2016
Niagara Mohawk has proposed an update to its Clifton Park, NY Reforming the Energy Vision demonstration project, and now proposes to run what is essentially an opt-out municipal aggregation program coordinated with the town which has about 15,000 customers
June 28, 2016
Palmco Power NJ, LLC and Palmco Energy NJ, LLC have agreed to pay $5.28 million, including up to $4.5 million in consumer restitution, and to significantly revise its business practices, in order to resolve allegations from the New Jersey Attorney General, BPU, and Division of Consumer Affairs that…
June 28, 2016
Start-up Drift Marketplace, Inc. has filed to be certified as a New York ESCO, and also recently applied for FERC market-based rate authority.
June 27, 2016
The Secretary of the New York PSC has denied an appeal from several ESCO groups concerning a Records Access Officer (RAO) ruling which had held that the release of ESCOs' historic pricing was not subject to confidential protection. The Secretary ruled that certain average pricing data is not…
June 24, 2016
The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) announced Direct Energy as the selected winner of NJBIA's RFP for energy management services for its more than 20,000 members.
June 21, 2016
Staff of the New York PSC recently issued an email to all ESCOs warning ESCOs that, to the extent ESCOs are charging a pass-through not listed in the customer disclosure statement, then Staff will insist such customers be, "rerated."
June 20, 2016
Direct Energy confirmed to EnergyChoiceMatters.com that it is in the process of transitioning customers from the NYSEG Solutions brand to the Direct Energy brand, having started the migration in May.
June 16, 2016
The New York PSC adopted a joint proposal in NYSEG and Rochester Gas & Electric's current rate cases which, among other things, includes revisions to the utilities' code of conduct with respect to the use of the utilities' names by non-affiliates.
June 16, 2016
Direct Energy is ceasing the use of its Bounce Energy brand in New York and Pennsylvania
June 15, 2016
Exelon said in a filing with the New York PSC yesterday that it will close the Nine Mile Unit 1 and Ginna nuclear plants if the PSC does not provide certainty approving a nuclear carve-out under the "clean energy standard" (CES) by September 2016
June 14, 2016
Energy for a Cause Inc is launching an online energy shopping marketplace and platform
June 13, 2016
A settlement among certain parties that would approve the purchase of Pike County Light & Power (PCL&P) by Corning Natural Gas Holding Corporation would require the utility to study the use of bilateral contracts and other alternative options for default service supply
June 10, 2016
Broker Utiliz LLC has petitioned the Connecticut PURA for a declaratory ruling to determine if Utiliz LLC's business is subject to the regulations, rules, and licensing of an electricity broker (which are not licensed in Connecticut) or an electricity aggregator (which are subject to PURA licensure)…
