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November 5, 2014
Results from recent default service auctions in Pennsylvania and Ohio appear to reflect an increased risk premium, which FirstEnergy Solutions believes is, "associated with volatility and uncertainty in PJM," Leila Vespoli, FirstEnergy Corp.'s Executive Vice President, Markets, said during an…
November 5, 2014
EnerNOC, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire World Energy Solutions, Inc.
November 4, 2014
Pennsylvania saw the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply decrease during the month of October, with five of the seven large EDCs seeing a decline in residential shopping.
November 4, 2014
PPL Corp. announced this morning that the company expects about 450 positions to be eliminated as a result of cost reductions, primarily in the company's competitive generation business and its service organizations.
November 3, 2014
Duquesne Light should maintain the use of laddered 12-month contracts to serve small C&I customers due to the potential for market shock such as the "Polar Vortex", a Pennsylvania ALJ said in a recommended decision on Duquesne Light's default service plan for the period beginning June 1, 2015.
October 31, 2014
The much-hyped "end state" retail electric market order from the Pennsylvania PUC is not, standing alone, "enforceable law," and therefore cannot be used to justify a sought lowering of the hourly pricing threshold at PPL Electric Utilities, an ALJ has concluded in a recommended decision on PPL's…
October 30, 2014
PJM is taking an "express lane" to impose billions of new capacity costs on consumers under its flawed capacity performance and transition mechanism, several retail suppliers, public power utilities, state regulators, and industrial customers (the transition coalition) said in comments to the PJM…
October 30, 2014
Retail supplier Great American Power, LLC has filed at FERC for approval of a transaction under which its holding company parent, Great American Power Holding LLC, would acquire 100% of the equity interests in retail supplier Perigee Energy, LLC
October 29, 2014
Exelon announced in reporting earnings this morning that on October 24, 2014, it entered into a sale agreement to divest its proportional ownership interests in the Keystone and Conemaugh generating facilities in Pennsylvania for total sales proceeds of approximately $475 million, including…
October 29, 2014
Affiliate of Retail Supplier Seeks Broker Licenses
October 28, 2014
Mansfield Power and Gas Seeks License in New State
October 28, 2014
Entrust Energy has begun offering electric service at PPL.
October 27, 2014
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania electric distribution companies have sought a temporary waiver of the accelerated switching requirements which require multiple off-cycle switches to be completed within three business days the same billing cycle
October 27, 2014
Rushmore Energy Receives Authority to Serve New Territories
October 27, 2014
Viridian Energy has begun offering its 3DOM 36-month fixed and hybrid electric plans in Pennsylvania, at PECO, PPL, and Duquesne Light.
October 24, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC in a final order is requiring electric distribution companies to conduct triennial solicitations informing customers of their ability to opt-out of inclusion on the eligible customer list (ECL) provided to retail electric suppliers.
October 24, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC authorized PPL's interim accelerated switching mechanism that is not in full compliance with the accelerated switching program adopted by the PUC, but still allows the customer to be switched within three business days for the first off-cycle switch in a billing cycle.
October 24, 2014
Marathon Power Receives Supplier License in New State
October 23, 2014
The legal reasoning used by FirstEnergy in a FERC complaint that seeks to eliminate demand response from participation in the capacity market would also mean that FERC lacks jurisdiction to create and compel participation in capacity markets, the Pennsylvania PUC said in a protest of FirstEnergy's…
October 23, 2014
Granting a complaint from FirstEnergy which seeks to exclude demand response from participation in the PJM capacity market, including re-running, without demand response, the already cleared May 2014 capacity auction, "would create a windfall for existing generators," Direct Energy said in a protest…
October 23, 2014
-- Flawed Wholesale Market Cost Retail Market The Chance to End Utility-Offered Default Service
Retail energy suppliers' businesses in Pennsylvania are in jeopardy due to the flawed wholesale market design, including the capacity market, should the state experience another winter like last year's polar vortex, PUC Commissioner James Cawley told the National Energy Marketers Association's…
October 22, 2014
Duquesne Light has requested a temporary waiver of certain elements of the Pennsylvania PUC's accelerated switching rules due to implementation of a new billing system which will delay Duquesne Light's complete compliance with the rules.
October 22, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC announced that additional functionality has been added to the PA Power Switch website.
October 22, 2014
PECO has posted to its website updated Prices to Compare for the period to begin December 1.
October 22, 2014
Liberty Power recently expanded its residential electric service to Massachusetts.
