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April 8, 2013
Pennsylvania PUC Chair Robert Powelson has been quoted in the past as saying that the PUC's goal is to make Pennsylvania the most competitive electricity market in the country, but instead of serving as a "city upon a hill" for progressive retail market reforms, it's the PUC's recent retail…
April 5, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC yesterday adopted as final without modification its tentative order to indefinitely suspend implementation of the retail opt-in aggregations at the seven major electric distribution companies.
April 1, 2013
Executing the default-prompted mass transition of PNE Energy Supply's customers to default service cost $40,000, Public Service Company of New Hampshire said in a filing with the PUC.
April 1, 2013
Staff of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, PNE Energy Supply, LLC (PNE), and Resident Power Natural Gas & Electric Solutions, LLC (Resident Power), have filed a settlement to resolve all issues in the PUC's dockets investigating PNE and Resident Power and issues relating to the mass…
April 1, 2013
On March 29, Commonwealth Edison filed updated Purchased Electricity Charges (Rider PE) for the 12-month period beginning June 1, 2013.
March 29, 2013
Duquesne Light has proposed revised procurement dates and contract lengths for its default service plan starting June 1, 2013, in compliance with a PUC order.
March 28, 2013
Niagara Mohawk has issued a notice of an ESCO Pricing Tools and Consumer Communications Collaborative to commence discussions concerning ESCO versus default service cost comparisons required under a recently adopted rate case joint proposal.
March 27, 2013
During yesterday's DNV KEMA retail energy executive forum, regulators from Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all said that retail suppliers need to offer innovative products and services, and that competing on price alone is not what they want from the retail market.
March 27, 2013
Retail suppliers are, "probably breathing a sigh of relief" that the Pennsylvania PUC has finally concluded its retail electric market investigation, PUC Vice Chair John Coleman said during the annual DNV KEMA retail energy executive forum.
March 26, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC's proposal to indefinitely shelve the retail opt-in aggregation programs, "could dampen the desire of competitive suppliers to test the waters of Pennsylvania's retail market in the short and longer term," Interstate Gas Supply and Dominion Retail said in comments on the PUC's…
March 25, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has approved new default service rates at Granite State Electric for residential and small commercial customers (Small Customer Group) for the period May 1, 2013 through October 31, 2013, and for medium and large commercial and industrial customers (Large Customer Group) for…
March 21, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in an order on rehearing, has modified the allocation of non-shopping customers to retail suppliers at Columbia Gas of Ohio, should a merchant function exit occur as a result of reaching previously adopted milestones.
March 21, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed winning bidders from the recent Standard Choice Offer auction at Columbia Gas of Ohio.
March 19, 2013
Maine Assigns Docket for Inquiry into Standard Offer Service
March 19, 2013
The local distribution utility should remain the default provider of electricity, a federal agency has said.
March 18, 2013
The New York PSC has authorized Niagara Mohawk to develop an online bill calculator to present residential customers taking electric and natural gas service from ESCOs with the amount that these customers would have been billed had they purchased supply from the utility.
March 15, 2013
The Pennsylvania retail electric market continues to take on water in 2013 as the PUC has dealt another stomach punch to retail suppliers -- proposing to indefinitely delay the retail opt-in aggregation programs just approved at each of the major electric distribution companies.
March 13, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed winning bidders from the recent Standard Choice Offer auction at Dominion East Ohio.
March 13, 2013
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended a three-year electric security plan at Dayton Power & Light, with an accelerated transition to fully auction-based default service.
March 8, 2013
Electricity Maine, LLC has petitioned the Maine PUC for a rulemaking to revise the rules governing Standard Offer and retail supply receivables, and to change the procurement length for Standard Offer contracts.
March 7, 2013
The electric distribution company in Pennsylvania that has the highest percent of switched residential accounts (among the 7 large EDCs) is now seeing a loss of residential customers on competitive supply.
March 7, 2013
PECO has posted updated Prices to Compare for the period beginning April 1, 2013.
March 6, 2013
Dayton Power & Light's, "claims of impaired financial integrity," for which it is seeking certain nonbypassable riders as part of its new electric security plan, "are self-inflicted and are the direct result of its improper business relationship with DPL Retail," Industrial Energy Users-Ohio alleged…
March 6, 2013
Energy prices in the Residential and Small Commercial SOS portfolio at Delmarva Power in Delaware will decline as a result of the 2012-13 auction for SOS supply, while prices for medium and large C&I customers will increase, but largely due to capacity, according to the auction report from The…
March 5, 2013
Connecticut, with nearly 50% of residential customers on competitive supply, is "ready" to move to a retail auction to transition remaining standard service customers to competitive supply, Chris Kallaher, senior director of government and regulatory affairs for Direct Energy, told lawmakers in…
