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April 15, 2016
Retail energy suppliers need to stop whining and accept the "reality" of the unfair advantages gifted to incumbent distribution companies, Wayne Gardner, former Pennsylvania PUC Commissioner, told the National Energy Marketers Association's 19th Annual National Restructuring Conference
April 14, 2016
The District of Columbia PSC is resuming a review of dynamic pricing, including potential for SOS, at Pepco.
April 8, 2016
Unitil has filed proposed new default service rates for New Hampshire electric customers, for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2016
April 7, 2016
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has posted the winning bidders from Duke Energy Ohio's March 2016 auction for a portion of default service supplies for the period June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2018, which resulted in a tranche-weighted average price of winning bids of $48.34/MWh
April 7, 2016
A settlement in the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities' default service proceedings for the period June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2021 would lower the threshold for hourly priced default service and retain the use of three-month contracts as part of the default service procurement portfolio for small C&I…
April 7, 2016
A settlement in the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities' default service proceedings for the period June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2021 would introduce, on a pilot basis, a clawback mechanism to the purchase of receivables program
April 6, 2016
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU electric basic service rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016.
April 6, 2016
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new default service supply rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016.
April 5, 2016
The New Hampshire PUC will review the rate design for default service customers under a working group process to consider a variety of grid modernization efforts.
April 4, 2016
Delmarva has filed with the Delaware PSC new SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016, which are lower than the current rates
April 1, 2016
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved a non-unanimous stipulation to implement AEP Ohio's sought PPA rider to support affiliated generation
April 1, 2016
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has accepted with modification several non-unanimous stipulations which establish the process governing the FirstEnergy utilities' procurement of default service for the period June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2024, and accepted as part of such electricity security…
March 31, 2016
Update, 3/31: PUCO has approved the auction results described below
March 29, 2016
The Maine PUC said that it is considering alternatives to the current default service procurement and pricing structure at Maine Public Service (Emera Maine, Maine Public District, EM-MPD).
March 29, 2016
During a collaborative meeting yesterday concerning the New York PSC's retail market reset order, Staff of the New York PSC admonished ESCOs for focusing on challenges presented in developing pricing benchmarks to potentially be used to allow and evaluate ESCO products in the market, warning that if…
March 28, 2016
National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation sought rehearing on the New York PSC's order requiring a "full stop" to the retail market, stating that the order ignored administrative burdens which may be placed on utilities from a likely return of mass market customers to default service en masse, and…
March 24, 2016
PECO has posted results from its March 2016 procurement of default service electricity supplies
March 24, 2016
SouthStar Energy Services LLC d/b/a New York Natural Gas intends to return its New York mass market customers to default service.
March 22, 2016
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a proposed electric default service for the period June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2019.
March 21, 2016
National Grid fixed basic service rates for Massachusetts residential and commercial electric customers will fall to, or below, 8¢/kWh starting in May, under rates filed with the DPU.
March 17, 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 April 2016
March 16, 2016
Update 3/17: The Public Utility Commission of Ohio approved the result of the auction including the price listed below
March 11, 2016
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted a final order approving without modification an application from Pike County Light & Power to continue to rely on New York ISO spot market purchases for all default service load for the period June 1, 2016 through May 31, 2018
March 11, 2016
Pennsylvania PUC Chair Gladys Brown yesterday "encourage[d]" the state's electric distribution companies to provide empirical data for any future default service plan which deviates from the statutory "prudent mix" standard.
March 4, 2016
Update #3, 4:58 pm: Several orders in response to specific ESCO petitions have been issued. At least one of the temporary restraining orders specifically applies to Ordering Clauses #1-3 of the PSC's Feb. 23 order, and stays their enforcement.
