July 23, 2013
License Briefs
Xoom Energy Receives Electric License in New State
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July 23, 2013
Champion Energy Services Announces Next Market Entry
Champion Energy Services announced that it would enter its next retail energy market in the near future.
July 23, 2013
Integrys Energy Services Launches Residential Offer in New Territory
Integrys Energy Services has begun offering residential electricity service to individual customers at Dayton Power & Light in Ohio.
July 22, 2013
License Briefs
Integrity Energy Services Seeks License in New State
July 22, 2013
Duke Energy Retail Offering Online Comparison of Competitors' Rates
Duke Energy Retail Sales has begun offering through its website a comparison of competitors' retail electric rates.
July 19, 2013
Texas, With Energy-Only Market, Again Only State With Retail Choice in CNBC Top 10 States for Business (Capacity Market States Fare Poorly)
Texas, with its energy-only market, is again the only state with retail electric choice rated as attractive to businesses, this time in CNBC's 2013 update to America's Top States for Business, while capacity market states are ranked as among the most undesirable states for business.
July 18, 2013
License Briefs
Sperian Energy Corp. applied for an Ohio natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas. Sperian Energy also applied for a Maryland natural gas supplier license; a copy of the application was not immediately available.
July 17, 2013
Briefly
New President Named for Parent of Retail Supplier
July 16, 2013
Clearview Energy Launches Residential Service in New State
Clearview Energy has begun offering residential electricity in Ohio.
July 16, 2013
U.S. Gas & Electric Launches Residential Service in New State
Energy Services Providers, Inc. d/b/a U.S. Gas & Electric has begun offering residential electricity in Ohio.
July 12, 2013
AEP Announces Retirement of Ohio Power Plant
American Electric Power announced that it expects to retire its 585-megawatt coal-fueled Muskingum River Plant Unit 5 in Beverly, Ohio, in 2015.
July 12, 2013
License Briefs
IDT Energy, Inc. applied for a District of Columbia natural gas supplier license.
July 11, 2013
Ohio Proposes Smart Meter Opt-Out
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has issued draft rules which would allow customers to opt-out of having an advanced meter.
July 11, 2013
One Paragraph Summation of Why Prospects for Widespread Expansion of Energy Choice Are Dim
Parties recently filed comments in Ohio's investigation of the retail natural gas market, and the comments of Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy and other low-income consumer advocates (LIA) aptly describe the dim prospects for widespread expansion of energy choice, both in Ohio and nationwide, in…
July 11, 2013
License Briefs
American Power Partners Seeks License in New State
July 10, 2013
Ohio to Initiate Smaller Working Groups on Short-Term Retail Market Workplan
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will initiate several smaller working groups to address aspects of the short-term retail electric market workplan to be developed by Staff.
July 10, 2013
AEP Ohio Seeking to Institute Charge for Consolidated Billing, Suppliers Protest Additional Changes to Tariff
Retail suppliers have protested numerous changes sought by AEP Ohio to its supplier coordination tariff, governing the utility's interaction with competitive suppliers.
July 10, 2013
CenStar Launches Residential Electric Service in New State
CenStar Energy has begun offering residential electricity supply at Duke Energy Ohio.
July 9, 2013
Utility: Opt-out Aggregation Contracts Should be Subject to Public Records Act
Ohio should require the disclosure of all incentives and commissions under opt-out municipal electric aggregation contracts, which should be subject to the state's public records law, several parties told PUCO in supplemental comments in Ohio's retail electric market investigation.
July 9, 2013
Constellation Launches Residential Service in New Territory
Constellation has begun offering residential electricity supply at AEP Ohio.
July 3, 2013
Ohio Allows Accelerated Drop of Customers from Defaulting Supplier to SSO to Resolve AEP Ohio-FirstEnergy Solutions Credit Dispute
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has granted AEP Ohio certain waivers to allow the accelerated return of customers from a defaulting supplier back to SSO to resolve a credit dispute between AEP Ohio and FirstEnergy Solutions, with the accelerated drop timeline obviating the need for further…
July 3, 2013
Licenses Briefs
Santanna Energy Services Seeks Electric License in New State
July 3, 2013
FirstEnergy Utility Warns Customers About Door-To-Door Sales "Fraud"
Toledo Edison issued an alert to customers yesterday, "about recent reports of potential door-to-door utility sales fraud."
July 3, 2013
Use of Incendiary Language in Pro-Capacity Market Op-Ed by NRG Leaves Open Flank to Attack Retail Choice
The use of incendiary language in a recent op-ed by NRG Energy in favor of a capacity market in Texas begs the question, that if we can't trust the market to assure resource adequacy, what else should we not "bet" on?
July 2, 2013
License Briefs
Interstate Gas Supply Seeks Authority to Serve New Territories