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July 19, 2011
The Retail Energy Supply Association has submitted a response to a working group report from Consolidated Edison regarding an evaluation of modifications to ConEd's rate ready billing system to permit ESCOs to use rate ready billing for dynamic and demand-based rates (09-E-0428).
July 13, 2011
The Maryland PSC has adopted revised Purchase of Receivables discount rates for electric and natural gas service at Baltimore Gas & Electric.
July 13, 2011
The Maryland PSC this afternoon ordered that early termination fees shall not be included in any receivables purchased by the utility under POR.
July 12, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued guidance on the placement of tax information on residential customer electric bills.
July 7, 2011
The Ontario Energy Board has revised a proposal regarding natural gas distributors' customer service policies to adopt a less prescriptive approach, and now only proposes to direct each distribution company to develop a "Customer Service Policy" for its residential customers (EB-2010-0280).
July 7, 2011
The Maryland PSC should direct electricity suppliers to, "immediately cease billing any and all charges that are not billed using a kilowatt-hour ('kWh') rate via utility consolidated billing," PSC Staff recommended in reply comments concerning the inclusion of early termination fees in Purchase of…
June 17, 2011
Washington Gas Light will begin purchasing the receivables of Maryland competitive gas suppliers with bills rendered on and after June 29, 2011, which is the start of the July billing cycle.
June 1, 2011
An automatic determination under which third party cancellations or attempted cancellations of retail electric contracts or enrollments are invalid (and thus rejected by the supplier), "may conflict with the billing and metering protocols" set forth in Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 16-244i(c), the DPUC said…
June 1, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a Secretarial Letter regarding the failure of some electric generation suppliers (EGSs) to include the unit price (kWh) on customer bills, which the PUC deemed a "serious" deficiency, and the inappropriate inclusion of sales taxes on residential customers' bills by some…
May 23, 2011
Infinite Energy will offer a prepaid natural gas product to customers in Georgia, and has asked for necessary waivers of the administrative rules required to offer prepaid service.
May 10, 2011
Since first enrolling customers in the summer of 2009, Potentia Energy has grown its ERCOT book by emphasizing customer service and transparency, as the family-run REP is seeing its high-touch approach drive referrals and customer retention.
May 9, 2011
Constellation NewEnergy has submitted an expedited petition at the Pennsylvania PUC for a temporary waiver of the PUC rules regarding electric generation supplier budget billing, to the extent they require a supplier to provide budget billing information for its residential customers.
May 4, 2011
Proton Energy Files Statement of Intent to Offer Prepaid Service in ERCOT
April 28, 2011
The Maryland PSC has accepted further revisions to the language concerning the SOS price comparison information to be included on bills (Case 9228).
April 26, 2011
Changing the treatment of uncollectibles at Columbia Gas of Maryland from a Purchase of Receivables program to the proration of partial payments appears to be the best option for addressing choice implementation costs at Columbia, the Office of People's Counsel said in comments.
April 12, 2011
TXU Energy Retail Company, LLC would pay $80,000 under a settlement with PUCT Staff to resolve a complaint-based investigation into TXU's compliance with disconnection and related provisions of the Substantive Rules (39317).
April 5, 2011
The Maryland PSC, from the bench, directed the utilities to propose modifications to the current SOS price comparison information language established in June in Case 9228.
March 25, 2011
Direct Energy has served roughly 10,000 prepaid customers in Texas under the current version of in Subst. R. 25.498.
March 23, 2011
The total volume of electric complaints filed by consumers with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) in calendar year 2010 decreased by 28% from 2009 volumes, an analysis by Regulatory Compliance Services found.
March 18, 2011
SCANA Energy Marketing, Inc. has asked the Georgia PSC for several waivers in order to allow SCANA Energy to offer customers a prepaid natural gas product.
March 17, 2011
Energy Plus Holdings, LLC Reports 2,500 Customers in First Month of ComEd Marketing
March 16, 2011
A PUCT Staff proposal for adoption regarding prepaid service would allow REPs to continue to offer financial prepaid products to customers without advanced meters until such customers receive provisioned advanced meters (38675, 2/18 ).
March 9, 2011
PJM has petitioned FERC for a limited waiver to allow a defaulting PJM Member, York Generation Company, L.L.C., the limited ability to participate in PJM's energy and capacity markets until York has satisfied its outstanding payment obligation to PJM pursuant to the terms and conditions of a payment…
March 7, 2011
CenterPoint Energy said this morning that it has identified an issue with a small quantity (approximately 15,000) of advanced metering system Commercial Meters that will require some billing from the January and February billing periods to be retracted and re-billed.
March 4, 2011
Using anything short of a five-year amortization period for Washington Gas Light's purchase of receivables program costs would create an, "unnecessarily high risk that suppliers active in residential markets would either not enter the residential market or forego using the utility’s billing services…
