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March 3, 2014
UIL Holdings Corporation, the parent of United Illuminating, this morning officially announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire assets and certain liabilities of Philadelphia Gas Works from the City of Philadelphia for $1.86 billion in cash
February 28, 2014
Consolidated Edison Energy Receives New Supplier License
February 28, 2014
The Maryland PSC granted Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC an electric supplier license to serve all customer classes, as Inspire Energy has now publicly posted its pricing for its initial markets of PECO and PPL in Pennsylvania
February 27, 2014
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is "concerned" with recent retail electric supplier price spikes, and has encouraged customers to send their rate information to the AG's office.
February 27, 2014
Unless current lawmakers are even more oblivious than apocryphal characterizations of the French nobility of the late 18th century, no legislator can cast a vote this year to terminate the availability of utility-offered, hedged default service, because the current runaway variable pricing in the…
February 26, 2014
FirstEnergy Corp. CEO Anthony Alexander told investors during yesterday's earnings call that given the volatility that has been introduced into the retail market, there's a question of, "whether or not a retail market for customers exists in the same format that we see it today."
February 25, 2014
ConEdison Solutions recorded customer growth during 2013, parent Consolidated Edison, Inc. reported in its annual 10-K.
February 24, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has directed retail electric suppliers to provide, within six business days, copies of disclosure statements of variable price products offered to residential and small business customers for the period December 1, 2013 to February 20, 2014.
February 24, 2014
Citizens' Electric Company of Lewisburg, PA has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to institute a nonbypassable charge to recover January default service costs which exceeded the revenues collected from retail rates.
February 21, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued for comment a proposed rulemaking that would revise certain regulations of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act (AEPS) of 2004, including regulations pertaining to net metering, interconnection and compliance provisions of the AEPS Act.
February 21, 2014
Concerns that PECO Customer Assistance Program customers will suffer "irreparable harm" under the program adopted by the PUC to allow these customers to shop for their electric supplier are not "speculative," given, "the recent volatility we have seen in the energy markets," Pennsylvania Public…
February 21, 2014
A final Pennsylvania PUC decision approved an unopposed settlement to implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
February 21, 2014
IDT Energy Receives Authority to Serve New Territories
February 21, 2014
PPL's Price to Compare for small business customers will increase 12% on March 1, which follows an earlier 20% increase which took effect on December 1.
February 21, 2014
With more than 750 high bill informal complaints filed by consumers so far this year, the Pennsylvania PUC has opened an investigation into disclosures and other regulations governing variable rate electric contracts (Docket M-2014-2406134).
February 20, 2014
Start-up Receives Texas Retail Electric Provider Certificate
February 18, 2014
Duke Energy announced that it has initiated a strategic process to exit its Midwest commercial generation business, which includes ownership interests in 13 power plants.
February 17, 2014
PECO has provided the following statement to EnergyChoiceMatters.com regarding our February 13 story concerning its request for reconsideration of the PUC's recent order on expanding shopping eligibility to electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers:
February 17, 2014
For the second time in as many weeks, the Pennsylvania PUC issued a news release in which the PUC, "urges customers using a competitive supplier to review their contract as wholesale energy prices have been pushed higher due to cold temperatures and high demand."
February 14, 2014
Guttman Energy Seeks Authority to Serve New Territories
February 14, 2014
DWP Energy Holdings, LLC has changed its name to Inspire Energy Holdings, LLC.
February 13, 2014
FirstEnergy Completes Sale of Merchant Plants
February 13, 2014
PECO has posted prices from its January procurement of default service supplies, for various periods beginning June 1, 2014.
February 13, 2014
Update, 2/14 : This story has been revised based on responses from PECO. PECO's full statement appears at the bottom of the story:
February 12, 2014
American Power & Gas of Pennsylvania LLC has begun offering residential electric service at Duquesne Light in Pennsylvania.
