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March 13, 2014
Six of Pennsylvania's seven major electric distribution companies saw a decline in residential shopping over the past week, as migration back to default service prompted by polar vortex rates continues to roll into the migration reports as meter reads are completed.
March 12, 2014
Ethical Electric, Inc. has asked the Pennsylvania PUC to require the FirstEnergy electric distribution companies, "to eliminate the use of the duplicitous [sic] and burdensome 'customer number' and instead use only the customer's account number for EGS enrollment."
March 12, 2014
Retail suppliers should be assigned one-half of the cost of changes needed to accommodate retail electric supplier logos on utility consolidated bills, PECO said in comments filed with the Pennsylvania PUC.
March 12, 2014
Runaway wholesale electric prices have doomed another attempt to expand electric choice, this time in Pennsylvania -- a state which increasingly looks more and more like New York, Connecticut, and dare we say it, Maryland, thanks to unchecked and uncompetitive wholesale pricing.
March 12, 2014
NRG Energy, Inc. has entered into agreements with Dominion Resources, Inc. to acquire Dominion's retail electric business.
March 11, 2014
Not that we needed more evidence that the PJM capacity market is designed to inflate wealth transfers to incumbent asset owners, but PJM's latest filing to reform the Reliability Pricing Model to curb alleged "speculation" (behavior which has the effect of reducing consumer prices) is simply another…
March 11, 2014
Crosslink Advisors Receives License in New State
March 11, 2014
The next time you see a study by The NorthBridge Group touting a centralized capacity market, or how a capacity market wouldn't cost materially any more than an energy-only market, keep in mind the following testimony from Scott Fisher, Principal with The NorthBridge Group, who was testifying on…
March 11, 2014
If the Pennsylvania PUC wants more market-reflective default service, as it indicated (but did not order) in its much-hyped end-state retail electric market order, utilities have not gotten the message.
March 11, 2014
NRG Energy, through Independence Energy Group LLC, and Comcast have launched a "trial" of their retail electricity supply initiative, using the Energy Rewards trade name.
March 10, 2014
SFE Energy Receives Authority to Serve New Territories
March 10, 2014
Pennsylvania Gas & Electric announced that it has provided customers with approximately $2.4 million in rebates to date to alleviate the financial impact of the increased price of energy this winter.
March 7, 2014
Texas PUC Approves Cease & Desist Authority
March 7, 2014
PJM has provided the Pennsylvania PUC with information on generation facility outages during the cold weather event of January 6-8.
March 7, 2014
With respect to rate issues, the Pennsylvania PUC denied reconsideration of its order granting PECO electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers eligibility to shop, with no cap on retail supplier rates, and in doing so, PUC Chairman Robert Powelson and Commissioner Pamela Witmer gave an…
March 7, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has sought more information regarding a settlement between Enforcement Staff and ResCom Energy LLC under which ResCom would pay $59,000 to resolve an investigation into alleged slamming, Do Not Call violations, and other marketing violations.
March 7, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC, based on the current record, is "unable to determine" whether Glacial Energy of Pennsylvania, Inc. was required to disclose certain of Gary Mole's experiences in Texas on Glacial Energy of Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania electric supplier application.
March 7, 2014
American Efficient plans to bring retail electricity supply marketing to 2,000 brick-and-mortar retail storefronts and establishments in the next year.
March 6, 2014
Pike County Light & Power's residential default service rate for the period starting March 1 is almost 12¢/kWh.
March 6, 2014
IDT Energy announced that it is providing customers with millions of dollars in goodwill credits and rebates, as a result of the polar vortex pricing.
March 6, 2014
In a reversal of migration trends year-to-date, four Pennsylvania electric utilities saw the net number of residential accounts on competitive supply decrease from about February 26 to March 5, according to the latest stats on PA Power Switch.
March 5, 2014
A Pennsylvania utility seeking to institute a nonbypassable surcharge to recover a default service undercollection resulting from extreme pricing in the PJM market during January has filed to lower its bypassable default service charge by 8% effective April 1.
March 5, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC will be "investigating" the causes of anomalous PJM wholesale market charges experienced in January.
March 4, 2014
Wellsboro Electric Company has become the second Pennsylvania utility to petition for a nonbypassable rider to recover an undercollection of supply costs due to, "abnormal and sustained cold weather conditions," during January.
March 4, 2014
Sunwave Gas & Power has launched electric service in Pennsylvania, at PPL.
