July 10, 2018
A complaint filed against a retail electric provider and Oncor at the Public Utility Commission of Texas may address the duty, if any, of the REP to describe the nature of a specific Oncor delivery rate schedule to the customer and a change in rate class
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July 5, 2018
The Connecticut PURA has directed the EDCs to begin including in their public monthly migration reports, which currently include customer counts for each retail supplier, the number of instances in which a supplier failed to provide "Next Rate Information" for a customer's bill.
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June 25, 2018
Oncor issued a market notice stating that, in the next few weeks, Oncor will file a compliance tariff regarding its Capital Structure Refund (Rider CSR) pursuant to Findings of Fact No. 33 and 34 in the Final Order in Docket No. 46957.
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June 19, 2018
The Connecticut PURA has issued a notice of stay concerning certain directives to the utilities regarding the implementation of the next rate information requirements on bills.
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June 15, 2018
Oncor informed retail electric providers in a market notice that, "Oncor will begin applying the power factor adjustment to invoices for all ESI IDs greater than 700 kW in the former Sharyland service territory during the August 2018 billing cycle."
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June 13, 2018
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority scheduled a technical meeting for Thursday, July 5, 2018 to discuss the May 21, 2018 Motion for Clarification submitted by The Connecticut Light and Power Company d/b/a Eversource Energy in Docket No. 14-07-19RE01 - PURA Investigation into…
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June 12, 2018
Constellation NewEnergy, Inc. informed the Connecticut PURA that Constellation NewEnergy, "recently discovered billing errors caused by its migration to a new billing system in November of 2016."
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June 11, 2018
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA or Authority) will conduct a Working Group Meeting on June 14, 2018 to discuss options to assure that the information that is required to be displayed on residential customer electric bills as required under the Connecticut General Statutes…
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May 25, 2018
The Maryland PSC has requested briefing on several legal issues concerning supplier consolidated billing, including the authority for suppliers to direct the utilities to disconnect customers for non-payment
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May 25, 2018
Just Energy Solutions Inc. and ENGIE Resources LLC have submitted separate requests to participate in a supplier consolidated billing pilot at AEP Ohio.
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May 22, 2018
The Connecticut Light and Power Company d/b/a Eversource Energy has submitted to the Connecticut PURA a Motion for Clarification concerning compliance with Orders 1 and 2 of the March 28, 2018 Re-Opening Decision concerning the listing of retail supplier Next Rate Information on customer bills
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May 14, 2018
The Pennsylvania PUC has scheduled second en banc hearing on supplier consolidated billing for electricity, with the second hearing scheduled for July 12
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April 30, 2018
Connecticut Schedules Technical Meeting On Next Month Rate Info Retail Supplier Must Provide For Bills
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April 27, 2018
The Massachusetts DPU has approved new purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages) at National Grid, to be effective May 1, 2018.
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April 27, 2018
The Massachusetts DPU has approved new purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages) at Nstar (Eversource), to be effective May 1, 2018.
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April 26, 2018
The Retail Energy Supply Association has filed a complaint at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio against Ohio Edison Company, The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, and The Toledo Edison Company (collectively, the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities or EDUs), alleging that the billing of various…
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April 23, 2018
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a settlement between the PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) and Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC (Plymouth Rock or the Company) under which Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC will pay a civil penalty of $98,683 to settle alleged overcharging of customers.
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April 6, 2018
Texas PUC Staff have filed a recommended proposal for adoption that would re-adopt the existing Chapter 25 electric substantive rules as part of a periodic review and re-adoption process (Project No. 47729)
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April 3, 2018
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. and Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (the Companies), in a letter to the New York PSC, confirmed that they have completed testing and implementing EDI changes necessary to accommodate bill credits to Assistance Program Participants (APP).
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March 29, 2018
The Connecticut PURA has issued a decision changing, on an interim basis, how electric distribution companies are to handle situations in which a retail supplier fails to provide information to populate the Next Rate information listed on a customer's bill, to be in place while PURA more thoroughly…
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March 26, 2018
Spark Energy, LLC has requested a hearing before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority regarding the March 21, 2018 Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty issued to Spark
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March 22, 2018
Regulator: "Egregiousness" Of Alleged Violations Prompts Question Of Supplier's Technical And Managerial Capacity
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA or Authority) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Spark Energy, L.P. (Spark or Company) under which PURA would impose a civil penalty in the amount of nine hundred thousand dollars ($900,000) against the Company.
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March 21, 2018
Direct Energy announced the results of a recently commissioned study to quantify energy savings from customers enrolled in First Choice Power’s Power-To-Go plan, a prepaid plan which notifies customers of their account balance on a daily basis.
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March 20, 2018
Western Massachusetts Electric Company (Eversource) has filed new proposed purchase of receivables discount rates (standard complete billing percentages) to be effective May 1, 2018.
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March 20, 2018
Slams Draft That Would Only Require EDCs To List "Not Provided" If Next Supplier Rate info Missing
Connecticut State Senator Len Suzio slammed, as insufficiently protecting customers, a draft PURA order which would require the electric distribution companies to list "Not Provided" on customer bills in the section listing the next rate information of the customer's retail supplier if the supplier…
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