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March 13, 2014
Direct Energy said that, effective April 1, the company will add a price protection feature to its current residential electric variable rates in each Pennsylvania utility service area in which the company serves.
February 26, 2014
As part of its continued retail market investigation focused on facilitating the development of value-added product and service offerings for mass market energy consumers, the New York PSC has issued a series of questions for stakeholder comment regarding ESCO customer acquisition costs, billing…
February 21, 2014
With more than 750 high bill informal complaints filed by consumers so far this year, the Pennsylvania PUC has opened an investigation into disclosures and other regulations governing variable rate electric contracts (Docket M-2014-2406134).
December 31, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has ruled that Public Service Company of New Hampshire shall cease applying a $5 switching fee to both a customer's new retail supplier, and to the retail supplier losing that customer.
December 26, 2013
PECO has filed a compliance plan to implement seamless move and switch-at-connect functionality, and in such plan included a proposal to recover costs of the programs.
September 25, 2013
The Michigan PSC has ordered Wisconsin Electric Power Company to arrange for two customers, for which Wisconsin Electric was delaying switches to an alternative electric supplier, to be switched to choice service immediately.
September 13, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has instituted what is essentially its third generic proceeding to examine barriers to a workably competitive retail natural gas market, after two prior efforts have failed to create meaningful opportunities for residential customers to choose an alternative gas supplier.
August 28, 2013
Verso Paper Corp. has filed a complaint at the Michigan PSC over, "the unreasonable delay of over two years imposed by Wisconsin Electric Power Company on Verso Paper Corp.'s request to migrate to retail access service."
July 15, 2013
A utility has suggested requiring that utilities receive direct, actual customer consent prior to executing a switch to another energy supplier.
July 10, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will initiate several smaller working groups to address aspects of the short-term retail electric market workplan to be developed by Staff.
July 3, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has granted AEP Ohio certain waivers to allow the accelerated return of customers from a defaulting supplier back to SSO to resolve a credit dispute between AEP Ohio and FirstEnergy Solutions, with the accelerated drop timeline obviating the need for further…
March 18, 2013
A settlement in Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania's rate case would end the current "freeze" periods for choice enrollments, adopt a new bypassable gas procurement charge, and establish new POR discount rates.
February 18, 2013
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.
January 21, 2013
An online energy broker has offered to several state public utility commissions a white label version of its online shopping platform to improve the PUCs' existing retail energy supply comparison charts and to allow enrollment onto competitive supply through the PUC websites.
December 14, 2012
The Public Utility Commission of Texas will open a formal rulemaking on providing electric customers with some form of ability to "opt out" of certain functionalities of smart meters.
November 28, 2012
The Maryland PSC will conduct a rulemaking session on January 9, 2013 to consider whether to finally adopt the proposed revisions to COMAR 20.52.03 relating to conforming changes to the electric switching period.
November 9, 2012
A tentative order concerning the end-state design of the Pennsylvania retail electric market deferred consideration of numerous issues raised in the retail markets investigation, including issues surrounding supplier consolidated billing, the switching timeline, and cost recovery from retail…
October 25, 2012
Walking back an earlier tentative proposal, the Pennsylvania PUC has decided to maintain a current "waiting period" in the retail electric market that requires utilities to withhold completion of switches until expiration of the waiting period.
September 28, 2012
A "discussion document" outlining the retail electric market end state proposal in Pennsylvania contemplates that all non-hourly default service customers, including residential customers, would receive a 90-day full requirements load following default service price resulting from quarterly auctions…
August 2, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted a motion from Commissioner Pamela Witmer concerning the structure of the retail opt-in auction at the FirstEnergy electric distribution companies.
June 27, 2012
The Maryland PSC has initiated Administrative Docket RM 40 to consider revisions to the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR) 20.52.03, Electric Standard Offer Service, regarding the switching period pertaining to retail electricity supply.
May 16, 2012
Aside from previously reported retail auctions and referral programs (see earlier story) , Duquesne Light proposes to implement several processes meant to remove barriers to customer choice under its proposed default service plan for the period beginning June 1, 2013, including "seamless move" and…
March 14, 2012
AEP Ohio has clarified how it will re-implement the 90-day switching rule and application of the 12-month minimum stay requirement in the wake of the rejection of its electric security plan.
March 2, 2012
Several direct access parties have petitioned the California PUC to direct the investor-owned utilities to report on the status of the most recent direct access Notice of Intent period, and to update their websites to reflect current room under the direct access cap.
December 16, 2011
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) yesterday issued a proposed intermediate work plan as part of its Retail Electricity Markets Investigation designed to improve the state's retail electricity market.
