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January 4, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC, via Secretarial Letter, has delayed the deadline by which Customer Assistance Program (CAP) electric customers at PECO must be given the ability to participate in retail choice.
January 3, 2013
Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy have filed their initial electric choice caps for 2013.
January 2, 2013
The Oregon Public Utility Commission has ordered Pacific Power (Pacificorp) to implement a long-term cost-of-service opt-out program that would allow direct access customers to cease paying transition charges after a five-year period, similar to the more active direct access program at Portland…
December 21, 2012
Calif. Adopts Lottery to Assign Available Direct Access Load
December 19, 2012
PUCO today deferred consideration of both settlements for consideration on its next agenda
December 13, 2012
A draft Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority decision concerning an investigation into the creation and expansion of municipal electric utilities (MEUs) would refrain from, "intruding on the public policy discussion regarding the merits of expansion of municipal electric utilities."
December 12, 2012
The end-state retail market design proposed in a Pennsylvania PUC tentative order, because it retains subsidized default service offered by a single, utility provider granted automatic cost recovery, "are more likely to set competition back than to move it forward," several retail suppliers said in…
December 11, 2012
A California PUC agenda (draft) decision would adopt joint parties' recommendations for institution of a lottery process to assign any unsubscribed direct access load, and to require annual reporting of direct access migration and the lottery process.
December 11, 2012
Constellation is now serving competitive electric load in Arizona under the Arizona Public Service wholesale "buy-through" mechanism.
December 3, 2012
Virginia's Attorney General and the State Corporation Commission have each recently issued analyses regarding the impacts of the state's 2007 electric re-regulation law, which ended customer choice except under limited circumstances and granted the incumbent utilities a variety of adders, and while…
November 29, 2012
Texas Industrial Energy Consumers (TIEC) petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Texas to adopt a Competitive Generation Service (CGS) program tariff at Entergy Texas after negotiations between TIEC and Entergy failed to reach a consensus program tariff.
November 23, 2012
Five Pennsylvania utilities saw the weekly growth in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply exceed more than 1,000 accounts in the most recent week, according to the November 21 migration data from the Pennsylvania PUC.
November 23, 2012
The New York State Office of General Services (OGS) has sought a change to New York's uniform business practices (UBPs) to allow customers to aggregate their electric load in order to meet the threshold of a "direct customer" and participate in the market without an ESCO.
November 20, 2012
Washington Ho Joins Unified Energy Services
November 12, 2012
Solid weekly growth in the number of residential customers on competitive electric supply continues at PECO, PPL, and West Penn Power, according to the November 7 migration data from the Pennsylvania PUC.
November 7, 2012
Voters in Chicago have given approval for the city to conduct an opt-out municipal electric aggregation.
October 16, 2012
Some 72% of Michigan voters would support a law allowing customers the ability to choose their electric service from competing suppliers, according to a poll released by Energy Choice Now (ECN), the Association of Businesses Advocating Tariff Equity (ABATE), the Customer Choice Coalition (CCC) and…
October 12, 2012
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) will convene its Annual Fall Leadership Roundtable next week, October 15-17, at the Kellogg Center in Lansing, Michigan to discuss the impact of competitive energy markets on economic growth, job creation, local and global competitiveness, and lowering…
October 11, 2012
Any newly formed or expanded municipal electric utilities in Connecticut should be required to offer customer choice, the Retail Energy Supply Association said in comments to the Connecticut PURA.
October 11, 2012
PPL has returned to a weekly decline in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply while PECO continues to see a surge in weekly residential shopping growth, according to the October 10 migration data from the Pennsylvania PUC.
October 5, 2012
The National Energy Marketers Association has released an agenda for its annual Fall Leadership Roundtable, to be held October 15-17 in East Lansing, Michigan.
October 2, 2012
The number of Michigan customer accounts on the utility waiting lists to receive electricity from competitive suppliers has topped 10,000, Energy Choice Now and the Customer Choice Coalition recently announced.
September 27, 2012
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority has issued questions for written stakeholder comment regarding PURA's investigation into the creation and expansion of municipal electric utilities (Docket 12-06-14).
September 18, 2012
Retail Suppliers Ask Wisconsin to Investigate Retail Choice
September 17, 2012
Staff of the Oregon Public Utility Commission said in comments concerning the PUC's investigation of issues related to direct access that, through a prior round of stakeholder comments , "sufficient information has been received to hold workshops to discuss the various proposals received."
