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December 16, 2022
Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, LLC d/b/a CenterPoint Energy Ohio ('CEOH') provided to the PUC of Ohio a, "notice of material default by Median [Median Energy Corp.] and request for authority to transition Median’s customers and terminate Median’s participation in CEOH’s Choice Supplier Pooling…
December 5, 2022
The Connecticut PURA directed Connecticut Light & Power (Eversource) to cease implementation of CL&P's plan to streamline the process for hardship customers to opt into electric choice, which requires that such customers forfeit their hardship status
November 28, 2022
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut PURA requested that PURA issue a Notice of Violation and Assessment of a Civil Penalty (NOV), in the amount of $124,000, against Mega Energy of New England, LLC (Mega or Company) for Mega's alleged failure to timely make…
November 18, 2022
The New York PSC issued a show cause order to Light Power & Gas, LLC (LP&G) directing LP&G to show cause why its eligibility to act as an ESCO in New York State should not be revoked or, alternatively, why other consequences as set forth in the Commission’s Uniform Business Practices (UBP) should…
November 14, 2022
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Order (ANOPR) to review its current regulations relating to cybersecurity, including whether electric generation suppliers (EGSs) and natural gas suppliers (NGSs) should be subject to the regulations
November 11, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC dismissed, without prejudice, a petition for a, "Determination of Whether New Hampshire Residential Customers Benefited From Electricity Deregulation."
November 3, 2022
Staff Warns Of Business Model That May Be Taking Root
The Texas Public Utility Commission opened a formal investigation of Texas Excel Property Management Corporation (Texas Excel) for possible violations of PURA and Commission rules, arising from allegations from the PUC's Division of Compliance and Enforcement (DICE), which had sought such an…
October 28, 2022
The State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, has affirmed a decision from the Supreme Court, Albany County, which had found that the New York PSC's authorized oversight of ESCOs necessarily means that the PSC is authorized to interpret ESCO contractual…
October 21, 2022
The Secretary of the New York PSC has granted, to several additional ESCOs, an extension of the deadline to comply with the PSC's prior order which had terminated the limited waiver allowing ESCOs to serve existing mass market customers under green gas products without being subject to the otherwise…
October 13, 2022
Staff Found T&Cs Did Not Constitute Required "Contract"
In an appeal to the Maryland PSC of a decision from the Maryland PSC's Consumer Affairs Division (CAD), Stream Energy Maryland, LLC alleged that, "CAD continues to produce more and more convoluted interpretations of Commission regulations in an attempt to incorrectly invalidate supplier contracts."
October 7, 2022
The Secretary of the New York PSC has, in a letter addressed to Family Energy, Inc., granted an extension of the deadline to comply with the PSC's prior order which had terminated the limited waiver allowing ESCOs to serve existing mass market customers under green gas products without being subject…
October 5, 2022
In Pennsylvania, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation ('Distribution' or the 'Company') has proposed changes to the applicable tariff pages (Rule 33) related to cybersecurity and the standard Data Security Agreement (DSA) and Self Attestation (SA) required from retail suppliers
September 23, 2022
FERC has issued a notice proposing to revoke the electricity market-based rate authority of over 100 entities -- including numerous retail suppliers and marketers -- for their alleged failure to file an updated baseline tariff and relational database due to new reporting requirements concerning…
September 20, 2022
In a Connecticut PURA proceeding implementing PURA's authority to condition access to utility systems on all retail electric supplier offers being just and reasonable, including, but not limited to, proof that the electric supplier's products are not overpriced or harmful to residential customers…
September 7, 2022
ERCOT filed a notice with the Texas PUC stating that it violated PUC Subst. R. § 25.43 by not correctly allocating ESI IDs to VREPs [voluntary POLRs] during two mass transitions in 2022.
August 25, 2022
Family Energy has renewed a request for the New York PSC to extend the deadline for ESCOs offering legacy mass market green gas products to either (1) modify the products such that they comply with the pricing limits applicable to mass market products, or (2) return mass market green gas customers…
August 19, 2022
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority requested that PURA issue a draft decision to assign about $2.3 million in costs for utilities to update their billing systems to retail suppliers, with a proposed mechanism, and…
August 8, 2022
The Secretary of the New York PSC denied an extension request filed by Family Energy to extend the deadline for ESCOs offering legacy mass market green gas products to either (1) modify the products such that they comply with the pricing limits applicable to mass market products, or (2) return mass…
July 25, 2022
Family Energy sought an extension of the deadlines under the New York PSC's order denying several ESCOs' petition for waivers to allow the ESCOs to offer green natural gas products without being subject to the otherwise applicable price limits in the mass market
July 21, 2022
In ruling on a discovery objection, the Connecticut PURA has essentially adopted a de facto requirement for retail suppliers to monitor and correct data filed by the utilities concerning the suppliers and retail market, as failure to do so, "reflects on an electric supplier's technical and…
July 15, 2022
PSC Remands ESCO's Eligibility To Staff For Further Consideration
The New York PSC reversed its prior finding in a March 2022 order that SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC (SmartEnergy) had knowingly made a false statement in its retail access application form (RAAF).
July 15, 2022
The New York PSC issued an order denying waivers to seven specific ESCOs for such suppliers to continue to provide green natural gas products to mass market customers without being subject to the otherwise applicable pricing limits, in which the PSC said that, for the period covering January 2021…
June 30, 2022
Through a default order, the Public Utility Commission of Texas issued an order revoking the electricity broker registration of RES Nation, LLC, granting a petition from PUC Staff
June 30, 2022
Utility Expense Reduction, LLC (UER) has agreed to a consent judgment under which it will pay $1.65 million to resolve allegations that, as alleged by the Massachusetts Attorney General, "it knowingly failed to make payments to the state under three state environmental programs."
June 29, 2022
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel renewed its petition for the Maryland PSC to adopt regulations to implement a 2021 law [Chapter 637; amending the annotated code Section 4-308] that prohibits retail electric and gas supplier service to energy assistance customers outside of a PSC-approved…
