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February 24, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has directed retail electric suppliers to provide, within six business days, copies of disclosure statements of variable price products offered to residential and small business customers for the period December 1, 2013 to February 20, 2014.
February 21, 2014
New York ESCOs will be required to disclose their pricing history for certain products, the New York PSC said yesterday.
February 21, 2014
The New York PSC has banned ESCOs from serving customers participating in utility low-income assistance programs, unless the ESCO meets certain conditions.
February 17, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption to implement the Commission's cease and desist authority, which includes in the preamble a discussion of the circumstances under which the authority may be applied with respect to retail electric providers.
February 10, 2014
The National Energy Marketers Association announced that its members are working on examining and developing the next steps, after NEM's National Standards of Conduct, to ensure a positive energy consumer shopping experience, including potentially self-policing mechanisms and/or a NEM seal of…
February 7, 2014
Breeze, LLC would pay $10,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Breeze's alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocols § 16.11.5(1)(b), related to monitoring of a counter-party's creditworthiness and credit exposure by ERCOT.
February 5, 2014
The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed by Sunwave Gas & Power Inc. concerning a self-reported error in the required price comparison templates.
February 3, 2014
People's Power & Gas, LLC informed the Connecticut PURA that it expects to provide PURA with, "the plans of People's to return to active service in this region," in the near future.
January 20, 2014
A customer's original authorization to switch to competitive supply cannot be used to return the customer to competitive supply after a default has placed the customer on utility Standard Service, the Connecticut PURA said in a letter to People's Power & Gas.
January 14, 2014
NextEra Energy Power Marketing, LLC would pay $5,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve its alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocol § 6.4.3.1, relating to energy offer curves for RUC-committed resources.
January 13, 2014
The bonding required of electric generation suppliers must reflect contractual guarantees and incentives provided to customers, in case the supplier defaults and cannot perform on such obligations, the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate said in comments to the PUC.
January 9, 2014
The Michigan PSC approved the request of two utilities to revise their tariffs to further restrict the types of customers eligible to take electric customer choice.
December 27, 2013
The Secretary of District of Columbia PSC rejected the submission of a "request for expedited opinion" filed by Constellation NewEnergy for which Constellation had sought confidential treatment for the entire filing.
December 20, 2013
The Michigan PSC has ordered electric utilities and alternative electric suppliers to submit a self-assessment of their ability to meet their customers' expected electric requirements during the three-year period of 2014 through 2016.
December 20, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has approved a settlement under which Public Power, LLC will pay a $64,000 civil settlement amount, plus issue customer refunds, to resolve alleged slamming violations stemming from a file transmission error.
December 13, 2013
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for publication containing proposed revisions to Subst. R. 25.272, relating to Code of Conduct for electric utilities and their affiliates.
December 12, 2013
The Ontario Energy Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed by Summitt Energy Management Inc. concerning the result of a Board staff review of customer contracts.
December 11, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas should require retail electric providers to be re-certified by the Commission every two years, Texas Legal Services Center and Texas Ratepayers' Organization to Save Energy proposed in a rulemaking concerning REP certification rules (Subst. R. 25.107).
December 6, 2013
The Ontario Energy Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed by Just Energy Ontario L.P. concerning the result of a Board Staff review of customer contracts.
December 3, 2013
Two Michigan utilities have filed tariffs with the PSC to further restrict the types of customers eligible to take electric customer choice.
December 3, 2013
Direct Energy has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to "look closely" at transactions between Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Retail Services [sic] (DERS) after an audit identified an error concerning a journal entry related to a REC sale.
December 2, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has ruled that, under current law, electric suppliers are not subject to the assessment levied on various regulated entities to fund the Commission.
November 22, 2013
The Connecticut PURA issued a final order regarding RPS compliance for the year 2010 which denies the request of three retail suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the RPS requirements through RECs that were not settled in the Connecticut Subaccount in GIS, in lieu of paying the higher…
November 21, 2013
The Public Utility Commission of Texas has created two dockets concerning the sharing of customer information.
November 18, 2013
The New York PSC reinstated Liberty Power Holdings LLC's ability to conduct door-to-door marketing, but placed the supplier on probation during which time, "any Liberty Power UBP marketing violations may subject Liberty Power to immediate revocation of its authority to act as an ESCO in New York."
