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August 25, 2026
In a settlement with the Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) of the Pennsylvania PUC and the Office of Consumer Advocate, UGI Utilities, Inc. - Gas Division has agreed to increase its hedging of natural gas supplies procured to serve default service customers
August 24, 2026
All of the Maryland investor-owned electric utilities, including BGE, Pepco, Delmarva and Potomac Edison, propose to, under their full requirements contracts for SOS, transfer responsibility for PJM Billing Line Item 1935 to the utility, relieving the wholesale SOS supplier from the Billing Line…
August 24, 2026
Proposed Order Would Mandate That Shopping Customers Return To Default Service At End Of Fixed Price Term, Unless Customer Chooses To Continue With Retail Supplier
August 18, 2026
Staff of the PUC of Ohio support the grant of limited waivers to both the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs and AEP Ohio concerning the use of an EDI transaction to allow retail suppliers to request an expedited return of a mercantile customer to default service
August 17, 2026
As other Exelon-owned utilities have done , Delmarva Power in Delaware has proposed that responsibility for PJM Billing Line Item 1935, U.S. DOE 202C charges, be transferred to the utility, rather than being the responsibility of the wholesale SOS supplier
August 14, 2026
Pepco in the District of Columbia sought D.C. PSC approval for two long-term PPAs bundling renewable energy supplies and Tier One RECs which would in aggregate cover 15% of SOS load
August 13, 2026
The presiding officers of a Maine PUC proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service have extended a current stay in the proceeding such that the stay is extended to September 14, 2026
August 12, 2026
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) asked the Maine PUC for an extension of a stay in a proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service
August 12, 2026
Dayton Power and Light Company d/b/a AES Ohio has petitioned the PUC of Ohio for approval of an additional standard service offer (SSO) procurement under its legacy electric security plan in order to avoid the need to procure about 60% of default service supplies, for the delivery period starting…
August 10, 2026
Staff of the Illinois Commerce Commission said in a report that, "while Ameren’s allocation methodology is not without limitations," the information reviewed by Staff and Ameren’s practices, "do not demonstrate a clear or material misallocation of costs between supply and delivery services that…
August 7, 2026
The Maine PUC has extended the comment deadline as requested to September 18, 2026
August 7, 2026
Constellation Energy Generation, LLC and Constellation NewEnergy, Inc. (collectively "Constellation") have opposed a proposed data center tariff from the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities which would, as filed, require that data centers receive generation supply service from a competitive retail electric…
August 5, 2026
A PUC has approved an interim approach to the return of data center customers to default service, which includes…
August 3, 2026
The New Hampshire PUC has established a formal process to consider ongoing issues related to electricity default service at Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities), including "discussion" of the appropriate treatment of default service reconciliation balances
July 31, 2026
The Maine PUC has opened a proceeding to implement a previously reported new law (P.L. 2025, c. 665) which authorizes opt-out municipal electricity aggregation
July 29, 2026
Pepco in the District of Columbia as part of the annual SOS RFP process, has proposed to have PJM Billing Line Item 1935 "be transferred to the utility," relieving SOS suppliers from the charge
July 28, 2026
The District of Columbia PSC scheduled for August 18, 2026 a working group to discuss various design elements of electricity standard offer service (SOS), including procurement timing and product type, rate design, and the bypassable SOS adder
July 22, 2026
PUC Declines To Eliminate Switching Fee
The PUC of Ohio has adopted amended rules governing the electricity standard service offer (SSO), with most of the changes reflecting statutory changes which eliminated the use of electric security plans for default service, and which require the use of a market rate offer process (MROs)
July 21, 2026
The Maine PUC has scheduled, for parties to the proceeding, a settlement conference in the PUC's examination of the implementation of time of use rates for electricity standard offer service.
July 21, 2026
The Massachusetts DPU has extended the deadline for the submission of utility responses to various questions, and for stakeholder comment on additional topics, in the DPU's newly opened investigation into the design and implementation of time-varying rates (TVR) for default electricity service (aka…
July 21, 2026
Includes New Residential Demand Response Program From Which Utility Will Earn Incentive
A settlement among major parties to a PUC of Ohio proceeding addressing a multi-year electric reliability plan (similar to a rate case) at Dayton Power & Light (AES Ohio) would address default service for data centers
July 17, 2026
The FirstEnergy Ohio utilities have requested, if needed, a temporary waiver of newly adopted Ohio Adm.Code 4901:1-21-21(A), governing the expedited return of mercantile customers to electricity default service, to the extent the rule is interpreted as requiring that an EDI transaction cited in the…
July 17, 2026
A report prepared by a consultant retained by the New Jersey BPU in a proceeding to modernize and potentially reform the state’s electric distribution utility business model has raised issues concerning default service, and re-regulation, in citing supply-related affordability concerns, though the…
July 16, 2026
Utility Makes Default Finding For Retail Supplier Which Has Allegedly Failed To Meet Minimum Customer Account Threshold (Supplier Has Suspended Marketing Pending PUC Investigation)
July 14, 2026
In a brief opposing a non-unanimous settlement in the default service proceeding of FirstEnergy Pennsylvania ("FirstEnergy" or "FE PA"), which would prohibit purchase of receivables for retail supplier plans with rates higher than the price to compare, Town Square Energy East, LLC (TSE) and WGL…
