July 17, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has lifted from a retail supplier certain sales and marketing conditions previously imposed on the retail supplier at licensure due to prior concerns over customer complaints in other states.
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July 17, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC approved the FirstEnergy electric distribution companies' self-procurement of supplies from the PJM spot market to serve hourly priced default service customers, after the PUC had rejected results from an earlier competitive procurement for hourly priced service.
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July 17, 2013
Ambit Energy Receives Authority to Serve Customers in New Territory
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July 17, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has approved revisions to the Duquesne Light Standard Offer customer referral program, including a revised supplier fee, but its ordering paragraph used vague language to describe a marketing prohibition related to the program.
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July 17, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC reminded stakeholders yesterday that it will not pursue the goal of fashioning perfectly competitive markets, "at the expense of all other considerations."
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July 16, 2013
Tiger Natural Gas Seeks to Serve Residential Customers in New State
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July 15, 2013
Infinity Power Partners Seeks License in New State
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July 12, 2013
Public Power LLC has confirmed the territories into which it is expanding for electric service in Pennsylvania.
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July 11, 2013
A shocking six Pennsylvania electric utilities saw a decline in residential shopping in the most recent week, according to the latest stats from the Pennsylvania PUC.
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July 11, 2013
Crius Energy announced that two of its retail energy brands marked significant expansions of service and reach this month.
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July 10, 2013
Green Mountain Energy has begun offering residential electricity supply at Met-Ed and West Penn Power in Pennsylvania.
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July 9, 2013
FirstEnergy Corp. announced today that it expects to deactivate two coal-fired power plants located in Pennsylvania by October 9, 2013.
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July 8, 2013
The New Jersey General Assembly has passed a bill to limit telemarketing by electric suppliers.
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July 8, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued a secretarial letter to clarify questions about whether a natural gas supplier (NGS) must be licensed to serve residential customers in two sets of circumstances.
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July 5, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC's PAPowerSwitch.com rate board has launched a new design and new features.
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July 5, 2013
The "cliff" threatening the Pennsylvania retail electric market that several of the Public Utility Commissioners have expressed concern about -- the lack of headroom in a year or two, towards the end of the current default service plans as rates become increasingly divorced from market pricing -- it…
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July 3, 2013
Santanna Energy Services Seeks Electric License in New State
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July 3, 2013
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?
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July 1, 2013
PECO and PPL continue to experience a decline in residential shopping, according to the latest stats from the Pennsylvania PUC.
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July 1, 2013
A retail supplier has filed comments with the Pennsylvania PUC urging the PUC to mandate volumetric, unit pricing for residential electric offers.
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July 1, 2013
Shipley Energy has begun offering residential electric service at Met-Ed in Pennsylvania.
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June 28, 2013
Liberty Power announced today the launch of two new products – Liberty Green, a renewable product, and SmartStep, a seasonal rate product.
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June 27, 2013
Interstate Gas Supply Receives Electric License in New State
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June 25, 2013
Variable rate retail electric contracts in Pennsylvania must identify the "actual methodology or formula" that will govern the calculation of the variable rate and the limits of that variability, the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate claimed yesterday in comments to the PUC.
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June 25, 2013
Pennsylvania's proposal to prohibit the use of pass-through clauses on fixed rate electric contracts, and only allow such pass-throughs in a new product category called Price With Pass-Through Clause, amounts to the regulation of retail supplier pricing, and will also raise customer rates…
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