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June 23, 2025
Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities) has filed proposed default service rates with the New Hampshire PUC for the period August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026
June 20, 2025
Public Service of New Hampshire (Eversource) has filed proposed default Energy Service (ES) rates for the period August 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026.
June 20, 2025
The Maine PUC opened an investigation to consider whether the state's investor-owned electric utilities should be required to develop and offer time of use rates for Standard Offer service for residential and small business customers.
June 18, 2025
During today's Maryland PSC administrative meeting, as the PSC addressed a Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative tariff filing related to SOS, Commissioner Michael Richard praised SMECO's portfolio approach to SOS given the current PJM capacity market
June 9, 2025
Joule Community Power, a division of Joule Assets, Inc., and an approved Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Administrator in New York State, announced the suspension of CCA administration activity, beginning December 1, 2025.
June 5, 2025
Across All MA Retail Suppliers, Residential Savings Were $600 Million In 2023, Study Says
NRG Energy said that a new analysis shows that its Massachusetts residential retail electric customers collectively saved $167 million in 2023 and 2024.
June 4, 2025
Retail Supplier Rate Lower Than 1996 Utility Rates On Inflation-Adjusted Basis At All 7 Large EDCs
The average lowest fixed price retail electric supplier residential offer in Pennsylvania during 2024 was cheaper than the 1996 monopoly utility supply rates at three Pennsylvania utilities without even accounting for inflation, while such supplier rate was cheaper than the 1996 monopoly supply…
June 4, 2025
Pepco in the District of Columbia has sought clarification from the D.C. PSC concerning which Community Renewable Energy Facilities (CREF) costs may be included in the bypassable SOS administrative charge
June 4, 2025
At the June 4 Maryland PSC administrative meeting, during consideration of changes to the purchase of receivables discount rates at several utilities (see related story today) , PSC Staff said that Staff has received "a lot" of "complaints" from residential customers concerning the unavailability of…
May 29, 2025
In a letter order dated May 29, the Maryland PSC ordered that increased capacity costs for electricity SOS at Baltimore Gas & Electric shall not be reflected in the mass market SOS rates which take effect June 1, 2025, after having ostensibly approved tariff pages on May 28 which would have included…
May 28, 2025
The Maryland PSC, as part of approving several updates in Baltimore Gas & Electric's SOS electricity rates, approved a change in BGE's "energy rate", for the period June 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025, due to updated capacity costs
May 21, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC has issued an order maintaining the status quo for electricity default service reconciliations at Unitil
May 20, 2025
Consumer Counsel Supports Recommendation That SOS Admin. Charge Be Tied To Or Verified Against Competitive Third-Party Supply Pricing, To Ensure Adder Does Not Undercut Competition
May 16, 2025
NJ Gov. Directs BPU To Open Proceeding On Resource Adequacy
Public Service Electric and Gas Company's (PSE&G) proposal for residential electric bill cost mitigation, due to increases in the New Jersey electric Basic Generation Service rates, would provide relief to customers through distribution-side bill credits applied to all residential customer bills…
May 16, 2025
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period July 2025 through December 2025, and Last Resort Service rates for the period July 2025 through September 2025
May 16, 2025
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed the winning retail suppliers selected in auctions to serve the load of electricity Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers, for the period June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026
May 16, 2025
NSTAR d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Eastern Massachusetts service territory, for the period August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026 for mass market customers, and for the period August 1, 2025 to October 31, 2025 for large customers
May 14, 2025
Utility Will Educate Default Service Customers About Rate Increases Due To PJM Capacity Price Spikes
The PUC of Ohio has approved without modification a settlement among several major parties in Duke Energy Ohio's electric security plan proceeding, under which Duke will implement limited changes in the default service auctions in order to reduce risk premiums
May 13, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC has deferred, to a future phase of Public Service of New Hampshire's 2025 default service proceeding (DE 25-017), consideration of modifying the currently bypassable default service reconciliation factor to become nonbypassable
May 1, 2025
Duke Energy Ohio has updated its electric Standard Service Offer retail energy (RE) and retail capacity (RC) riders for the period June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026
April 30, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed various updates to the components of its electricity SOS rates in Maryland
April 29, 2025
Duquesne Light has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC an update to the default service supply rate, or supply charge, to be effective for various periods starting June 1, 2025
April 29, 2025
PPL Electric has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC updates to its Generation Supply Charge (GSC) – 1 and its Transmission Service Charge (TSC), which together make up the Price to Compare
April 24, 2025
The Pennsylvania PUC denied a proposal from Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC to automatically enroll customers into Peoples' Customer Assistance Program (CAP) if the customer has an account balance exceeding $300 and Peoples received a Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) grant for the…
April 23, 2025
Gov. Says State Will Do "Everything In Our Power" To Offer Rate Relief
The New Jersey BPU has ordered the state's electric utilities to, "file petitions with the Board providing distribution side proposals to mitigate bill impacts to residential customers during high usage summer months."
