March 5, 2013
License Briefs
Bounce Energy PA, LLC has applied for an Ohio electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
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March 4, 2013
Settlement to Increase POR Discount at PECO, Unbundle Distribution Rates into New Bypassable Charge
Parties have filed a settlement to unbundle certain natural gas supply procurement costs at PECO from base rates and include such costs in a new bypassable Gas Procurement Charge (GPC), with such settlement also moving uncollectibles into the POR discount rates.
March 1, 2013
Pennsylvania Sets New Bypassable Gas Procurement Charge at UGI Companies
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted without modification a settlement to establish the level of new, bypassable Gas Procurement Charges at the three UGI natural gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania.
March 1, 2013
Duquesne Light Receives Approval for Modified Default Service Procurement Dates
The Pennsylvania PUC approved Duquesne Light's petition for approval of revised procurement dates for residential and small commercial SOS, in light of the PUC's recent order requiring that procurements occur no earlier than 5 months prior to the start of delivery.
March 1, 2013
ChooseEnergy.com Expands Online Shopping Portal to Pennsylvania
ChooseEnergy.com has launched its energy shopping comparison platform for Pennsylvania energy consumers and business owners.
March 1, 2013
Eisenbach Consulting, LLC Acquires Bulk of Vital Connections, LLC
Eisenbach Consulting, LLC has acquired hundreds of commercial and industrial clients from Texas-based Vital Connections, LLC.
March 1, 2013
License Briefs
ConEdison Solutions Seeks Supplier License in New State
March 1, 2013
Pennsylvania to Require Licensing of All Intermediaries Involved in Natural Gas Procurement (Brokers), Carves Out Limited Marketing Exemptions
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued an Advance Notice of Final Rulemaking which would revise the natural gas market rules such that all natural gas brokers and aggregators are required to be licensed, but that certain non-selling marketers and non-traditional marketers are excluded from licensing.
February 28, 2013
Pennsylvania Continues Slow Recovery in Residential Migration Growth
Pennsylvania saw another week of marginal improvement in the growth rate of residential migration to competitive supply, according to the February 27 stats from the Pennsylvania PUC.
February 28, 2013
Retail Supplier Seeks Shopping Credits at Duke Energy Ohio due to Lack of Unbundling
Interstate Gas Supply, Inc. has recommended that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio introduce a form of shopping credit for natural gas customers at Duke Energy Ohio due to the inclusion of natural gas procurement costs in nonbypassable base rates.
February 28, 2013
TriEagle Energy Receives New License, Looking to New Markets as 10th Anniversary Celebrated
TriEagle Energy, LP, which recently celebrated 10 years of service, has been granted an electric supplier license in a new state.
February 26, 2013
FirstEnergy Doesn't Expect "Significant Changes" from Ohio Retail Market Investigation
FirstEnergy does not expect the retail electric market investigation newly launched by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to result in "significant changes" to the market rules, the company told investors yesterday in reporting earnings.
February 25, 2013
Reliant to Take on Greater Role in PECO Dynamic Pricing Pilot
PECO has proposed to assign to Reliant a greater role in PECO's dynamic pricing pilot.
February 25, 2013
Washington Gas Energy Services Reports Customer Counts, Market Share, Discusses 2013 Strategy
Washington Gas Energy Services reported customer count and market share (of shopped load/customers) by state as well as margins during an analyst meeting last week.
February 22, 2013
For Third Straight Week, Pennsylvania Shopping Growth Stalls; Is This The Future?
Things aren't getting better when it comes to growing the number of accounts on competitive supply in Pennsylvania.
February 22, 2013
U.S. Gas & Electric Offering Residential Service in New Territory
Pennsylvania Gas & Electric, a trade name for a subsidiary of U.S. Gas & Electric, has begun offering residential electricity supply at Penn Power in Pennsylvania.
February 20, 2013
Pennsylvania Talks, Connecticut Acts: CT Master Energy Plan Proposes Auctioning All Standard Service Customers to Retail Suppliers!
Connecticut's Comprehensive Energy Strategy, an energy master plan developed by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, proposes to auction off all remaining Standard Service customers to retail suppliers.
February 19, 2013
AEP Reiterates Retail Strategy, Focus on Margins
AEP is not focused on creating a national retail energy player, AEP President & Chief Executive Officer Nick Akins affirmed during an investor presentation last week.
February 19, 2013
License Briefs
ResCom Energy, LLC has submitted an application for an Ohio electric supplier license to serve residential and commercial customers at Duke Energy Ohio. ResCom Energy had previously filed an Ohio license application in 2010 but withdrew the application without prejudice.
February 18, 2013
License Briefs
Perigee Energy Receives Supplier License in New State
February 18, 2013
Nordic Energy Expands Service into Pennsylvania Plus 4 More States in 2013
Nordic Energy Services, LLC announced that it will be entering the Pennsylvania electric market.
February 18, 2013
Pay to Play: Pennsylvania to Seek Authority to Impose Annual Tax on Retail Suppliers, Brokers
Pennsylvania will proceed with seeking legislative authority to impose an annual licensing fee on electric generation suppliers, including retail suppliers, brokers, marketers, and aggregators.
February 18, 2013
Pennsylvania to Retail Suppliers: You'll Get Nothing and Like It
The Pennsylvania PUC's final order on an end state retail electric market design contains no substantive changes, and virtually no changes at all, sought by retail suppliers to reduce current barriers to competition which have caused migration to competitive supply to slow to a trickle.
February 15, 2013
EPIC FAIL: Pennsylvania Won't Implement Quarterly Mass Market Default Supply Auctions Without Legislative Action
The Pennsylvania PUC's long-winded and much hyped retail market investigation has resulted in the PUC, on its own authority, merely adopting a form of small customer default service contract lengths that is, "more reflective of market conditions than the currently-offered default service products,"…
February 15, 2013
Pennsylvania Grants UGI Request to "Roll Over" Default Service Plan for Additional Year
The Pennsylvania PUC granted the petition of UGI Utilities, Inc. - Electric Division to "roll over" its existing default service plan for customers above 500 kW (GSR 3 Group customers) for an additional one-year period ending May 31, 2014.