September 22, 2015
Star Energy Partners Launches Service In New Service Areas
Star Energy Partners has begun listing on PA Power Switch residential electricity offers for customers at Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, and West Penn Power
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September 22, 2015
BlueRock Energy Listing Electric Offers In New State
BlueRock Energy has begun listing on PA Power Switch a residential electricity offer for customers at PPL and Penelec
September 21, 2015
PUC Staff Recommends Utility Develop AMI Business Case, Plan for Sharing Customer Data With Retail Suppliers
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended that the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities file a business case that seeks to expand the utilities' existing smart grid program
September 18, 2015
PUC Proposes Extension Of Waiver Allowing Shortened Five-Day Waiting Period For Switches
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a tentative order which would extend through October 25, 2018 the shortened five-day waiting period between the time a natural gas customer is informed by the utility of a request submitted by a supplier to switch the customer's account, and the first date on which such…
September 18, 2015
License Briefs
Pennsylvania State University Receives Natural Gas License
September 16, 2015
Greenlight Energy Seeks Supplier Licenses in New State
Greenlight Energy Inc. applied for Pennsylvania electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve residential and (for natural gas only) small commercial customers at PECO.
September 11, 2015
Clearview Energy Elected to NEM Executive Committee
The National Energy Marketers Association announced that Clearview Energy, Inc. has been elected to NEM’s Executive Committee and Policy Development Team.
September 11, 2015
PA Power Switch Now Listing Past Prices On Site
PA Power Switch has begun listing past electric default service rates on the site when presenting customers with the list of current electric supplier offers available
September 11, 2015
Residents Energy Listing Offer In New Service Area
Residents Energy, a brand of Genie Energy, has begun posting offers for residential electricity supply at Duquesne Light at PA Power Switch
September 10, 2015
Exelon Defers Decision On Two Nuclear Plants
Exelon Corporation announced that all of its nuclear plants in the PJM market cleared in the transition capacity auction for the 2017-18 planning year and that the company will defer any decisions about the future operations of its Quad Cities and Byron nuclear plants for one year.
September 10, 2015
Pa. Governor's Policy Chief, PUC Commissioner Highlight Upcoming RESA Energy Competition Symposium
The Retail Energy Supply Association announced speakers at its October 1 Energy Competition Symposium in Harrisburg, Pa.
September 10, 2015
Retail Suppliers Facing 25% Increase in Capacity Costs for 2017/18 From Transitional CP Auction
Retail suppliers are facing a 23% increase in capacity prices for the 2017/18 versus the prices established in the base residual auction as a result of the capacity performance transitional auction held this week
September 10, 2015
Four Retail Market Veterans Launching New Retail Supplier
Four retail market veterans, all of whom had stints at Spark Energy, are among the leadership of a new retail electric supplier, Trident Retail Energy, LLC d/b/a Trident Power
September 8, 2015
PECO Lowers POR Discount Rate
PECO recently lowered its natural gas POR discount rate, it informed the Pennsylvania PUC
September 4, 2015
PPL Rate Case Settlement Addresses Design, Discount Rate for Purchase of Receivables
Purchase of receivables is among the issues to be decided by a rate case settlement filed by PPL Electric and various stakeholders announced yesterday
September 4, 2015
PUC Approves Seamless Move, Instant Connect Implementation Plan At Duquesne Light
The Pennsylvania PUC approved Duquesne Light's plan to implement seamless moves and instant connects by July 1, 2016
September 4, 2015
PUC Approves PPL Smart Meter Deployment Plan
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a deployment plan for PPL Electric to deploy smart meters fully compliant with the requirements of Act 129
September 4, 2015
License Briefs
The Pennsylvania PUC granted The Pennsylvania State University an electric broker/marketer license to serve governmental customers in all service areas
September 4, 2015
Pennsylvania Orders Implementation of Retail Suppliers' Preferred Method of Smart Meter Data Access, But Not Immediately
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a final order concerning electric distribution company (EDC) development of a standardized solution for the acquisition of historical interval usage (HIU) and billing quality interval use (BQIU) data by electric generation suppliers via a secure web portal
September 1, 2015
License Briefs
Greenwave Concepts, LLC d/b/a TruEnergy applied for a Pennsylvania electric broker/marketer license to serve all customer classes in all service areas
September 1, 2015
Retail Suppliers Facing Near Doubling of Unhedgeable Capacity Costs For Next Year Under PJM Transitional Auction
While retail suppliers have more lead time to account for the higher capacity performance prices under the initial base residual auction featuring the new performance product for the 2018/19 delivery year (click here for recent results) , retail suppliers are facing a near doubling of capacity…
August 31, 2015
Pennsylvania PUC Revokes Licenses of Retail Suppliers, Brokers
The Pennsylvania PUC revoked the licenses of the following retail suppliers and brokers for what the PUC found to be each's failure to submit the required security for continued licensure. Batchelor Energy LLC Best Energy LLC Dash Energy LLC Energy Brokers LLC Energy Window, Inc. Facility Solutions…
August 28, 2015
Supplier Seeks Variance From SOS Procurement Credit Requirements
BTG Pactual Commodities (US) LLC requested that the Maryland PSC either: (1) grant it an individual variance from bid eligibility requirements for the utilities SOS RFPs; or (2) revise the RFPs in a similar manner.
August 28, 2015
License Briefs
Draft Would Approve License for Energy Rewards (Comcast Brand)
August 28, 2015
Retail Supplier to Provide $3 Million in Refunds Under Settlement
Respond Power is to provide $3 million in refunds under a settlement with the Pennsylvania PUC Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) to resolve an investigation into its trade practices.