SmartestEnergy, U.K. Retail Supplier Newly Entering U.S., Receives License In New State

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted SmartestEnergy US LLC an electric supplier license to serve all customer classes in all service areas

SmartestEnergy US LLC's plans to enter the U.S. retail energy markets had been exclusively first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com in April. As previously reported, SmartestEnergy is ultimately a subsidiary of the Marubeni Corporation, a major Japanese integrated trading and investment business conglomerate that handles products and provides services in a broad range of sectors, including energy and metals, power projects and plants, transportation and industry machinery, chemical and forest products, and food and consumer products

In the U.K., SmartestEnergy affiliates offer retail electricity supply to businesses as well as wholesale procurement and trading services. It also offers demand response, peak load management, and electricity storage. SmartestEnergy also offers various services to generators including asset optimization. In the U.K., SmartestEnergy supplies 8 TWh to over 2,500 C&I customers across 11,000 sites

EnergyChoiceMatters.com was also first to report SmartestEnergy US LLC's recent receipt of initial ESCO eligibility in New York