July 14, 2016
PPL continues to see an acceleration in the decline of residential customers on competitive electric supply, while Pennsylvania statewide residential customer shopping increased during June after a decline in May
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July 14, 2016
Global Montello Group Corp. and Sprague Operating Resources LLC asked the Maine PUC to order Northern Utilities, Inc. (Unitil) to expeditiously provide information allowing suppliers to determine the total number of customers eligible to be Capacity Exempt under recent changes adopted by the PUC, as…
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July 13, 2016
Texas Competitive Electric Holdings Company LLC (TCEH), a unit of Energy Future Holdings and the parent of TXU Energy and Luminant, is conducting meetings with prospective lenders in connection with the syndication of its $4.25 billion senior secured credit facilities
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July 1, 2016
Analysis Finds Illinois Competitive Supply Customers (Dominated By Aggregation Rolls) Paying More Than Default Service
The number of residential customers on competitive electric supply at Commonwealth Edison has fallen from a peak of 70% in March 2014 to only 40% as of May 2016, primarily due the termination of various municipal aggregations and their return of customers to default service, an annual report from…
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May 13, 2016
Crius Energy Trust is nearing 1 million customers as it reported earnings for the quarter ending March 31, 2016 which were impacted by milder than normal weather
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May 3, 2016
Pennsylvania marked six consecutive months of statewide growth in the number of residential electric customers on competitive supply, but the amount of growth was significantly less than growth in recent months
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January 22, 2016
A New Hampshire superior court jury reached a verdict ordering Provider Power, and various affiliates and principals, to pay $462,000 in damages, plus attorney fees, to Freedom Energy Logistics and affiliates in a suit brought by Freedom Energy against Provider Power in which Freedom Energy had…
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January 15, 2016
The Massachusetts DPU has opened a new docket (16-10) to address several outstanding issues related to municipal opt-out electric aggregations, and several new issues.
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January 6, 2016
Pennsylvania saw a second consecutive strong month in terms of statewide residential electric shopping growth during December, in the context of a post-polar vortex world, though PPL saw its second straight month of declining residential shopping
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December 8, 2015
NextEra Energy Services will be acquiring a customer book from Duquesne Light Energy
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November 17, 2015
Energy 95, LLC d/b/a Quake Energy, LLC responded to a Notice of Material Default issued to the supplier by Dominion East Ohio (DEO), saying that the allegations as described in the notice have been inflated and in one case amounted to a, "sweeping and deceptive assertion," and that Dominion East…
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October 29, 2015
Pennsylvania in the aggregate saw flat statewide residential electric shopping from the end of September to the end of October
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October 5, 2015
Satori Energy has acquired a book of electricity and gas contracts from Boston-based InSource Power.
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August 14, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has asked for stakeholder comment regarding what customers should be included in customer lists provided to municipal aggregations.
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August 4, 2015
In the wake of recent significant increases in default service rates, July saw statewide residential electric migration increase in Pennsylvania for the first time since November 2014.
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August 3, 2015
Energy Future Holdings, parent of TXU Energy and 4Change Energy, saw a decline in its residential customer count during the three months ended June 30, 2015, but saw growth in small business customers.
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July 15, 2015
Some 16% of Illinois municipal aggregations have discontinued service, while the Commonwealth Edison residential market remains "moderately concentrated" from a competitive perspective, according to the Illinois Office of Retail Market Development annual report.
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July 9, 2015
The Pennsylvania PUC has ordered that the large natural gas distribution companies implement natural gas account number look-up tools to facilitate customer shopping in public venues where customers do not have their bill and account number readily available, similar to mechanisms recently…
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July 9, 2015
The Pennsylvania PUC has directed to its Office of Competitive Market Oversight several issues regarding the electric utilities' customer lists raised by several NRG Energy suppliers.
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June 23, 2015
As part of a newly filed rate case with the Michigan PSC, Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation forecasts a continued decline in choice customers.
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May 28, 2015
The NRG Energy retail suppliers reported that the "shockingly low" success rate seen by retail electric suppliers using PECO's remote account number look-up tool is due to the poor data quality of PECO's customer list, and PECO's insistence on a 100% character-for-character match.
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April 10, 2015
Dismissing concerns raised about the lack of use of the mechanisms since being implemented in the electric market, the Pennsylvania PUC has proposed in a tentative order requiring natural gas utilities to offer a mechanism to allow a retail natural gas supplier to look-up a customer's account number…
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March 20, 2015
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel and several retail suppliers have filed specific, jointly proposed changes to recently adopted retail electric supplier marketing standards.
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March 16, 2015
A Maine working group has issued a report regarding Central Maine Power's provision of advanced meter data to customers and retail suppliers via an online portal.
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February 27, 2015
The New York PSC has approved, as a demonstration project, an opt-out municipal aggregation for Westchester County to be developed by Sustainable Westchester (SW).
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