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August 4, 2016
PECO and the FirstEnergy utilities (Penelec in particular) continue to drive residential electric shopping growth in Pennsylvania, while PPL saw another month of declining residential shopping.
August 2, 2016
Dayton Power & Light has filed proposed tariffs with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that would implement Standard Service Offer (SSO) tariffs from 2013, as a result of a Supreme Court of Ohio order vacating a 2013 PUCO order adopting an electric security plan (ESP II) at DP&L.
August 2, 2016
A final version of the Massachusetts long-term hydropower and offshore wind bill now sent to Governor Charlie Baker reverts to earlier language that gives electric distribution companies discretion on how to dispose of products procured under the contracts.
August 1, 2016
Connecticut Light & Power Discloses Default Service Supplier
July 29, 2016
AEP is, "pursuing restructuring in Ohio," said CEO Nick Akins during an earnings call
July 28, 2016
Dayton Power & Light has filed at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to implement Standard Service Offer (SSO) rates that are consistent with the rates that were in effect before a September 4, 2013 PUCO order on DP&L's electric security plan under Case 12-426-EL-SSO (which is DP&L's current…
July 22, 2016
CEO of BlueRock Energy: Low Income Families Lose Out Because Of New York’s Public Service Commission’s Decision To Curb Energy Choices
July 21, 2016
PECO has posted official electric Prices to Compare for the period beginning September 1, 2016
July 20, 2016
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric for the month of August 2016
July 20, 2016
The Maryland PSC has rejected, without prejudice, Baltimore Gas & Electric's proposal to build, own, and operate two microgrids.
July 20, 2016
An uncontested settlement in PPL Electric's default service proceeding for the period June 1, 2017, through May 31, 2021 would decrease the utility's reliance on six-month contracts to serve residential default service customers
July 19, 2016
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed new tariffed PTC Default rates with the PUC for the three-month period starting September 1, 2016, with residential rates at Met-Ed, Penelec, and Penn Power increasing anywhere from 16% to 28%.
July 19, 2016
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the period beginning September 1, 2016
July 18, 2016
The New York PSC has issued a written order imposing a moratorium on ESCO service to low-income customers, which explains how treatment of existing low-income ESCO customers, or ESCO customers who later become eligible for low-income protections, are to be treated.
July 15, 2016
As first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com yesterday (click here) , the New York PSC has adopted a moratorium on low-income customer participation in the retail electric and natural gas markets, in an action that PSC Staff said they believe (though not familiar with every state) to be the first of…
July 14, 2016
The New York PSC has adopted a "moratorium" on ESCO service to low-income electric and natural gas customers
July 11, 2016
The Maine PUC adopted a series of changes to the retail natural gas choice program at Northern Utilities (Unitil)
July 11, 2016
Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers at PPL should only be permitted to shop through a new Standard Offer Program (SOP) exclusive to CAP customers, Pennsylvania PUC Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Staff said in a brief in PPL's default service proceeding.
July 8, 2016
Eversource in Massachusetts is seeking to merge its Nstar Electric operating unit with its Western Massachusetts Electric Co. operating unit to form a single legal entity, and petitioned the DPU for an advisory opinion
July 7, 2016
Delmarva filed a correction to its Maryland SOS electric rates, stating that the previously filed tariffs for the period beginning October 1, 2016 inadvertently switched the rates for the Type I Small General Services SGS-S and Type I Space Heating SGS-S classes.
July 7, 2016
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a new default service supply rate for Medium C&I customers (25-300 kW) for period beginning September 1, 2016.
July 5, 2016
The Massachusetts Senate passed an amended version of S.2372, which is generally designed to require the procurement of Canadian hydropower under long-term contracts, but an adopted amendment to the bill changes the treatment of such power with respect to default service
July 5, 2016
The New Hampshire PUC has approved, without modification, a settlement among various parties requiring Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) to divest its power plants and adopt a competitive procurement for default service
June 30, 2016
Public Service of New Hampshire has petitioned the New Hampshire PUC for approval of a long-term PPA with Hydro Renewable Energy Inc., an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydro-Quebec
June 29, 2016
The New Hampshire PUC approved a 25% decrease in the default service rate for residential and small commercial customers at Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities)
