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April 14, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU yesterday issued an order eliminating the electric basic service bill recalculation for residential and small C&I customers, effective immediately
April 10, 2015
Citing recent electric price spikes and declining participation by wholesale suppliers in electric default service procurements, the Massachusetts DPU has opened an investigation into the provision of basic service, including the potential elimination of full requirements contracts and use of less…
April 9, 2015
Unitil, Staff of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, and Office of the Consumer Advocate have filed a settlement which proposes to eliminate the default service bill recalculation at Unitil immediately.
April 8, 2015
Unitil in New Hampshire has filed proposed default service electric rates for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2015.
April 7, 2015
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for the period beginning June 1, 2015.
April 3, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has adopted an electric security plan for Duke Energy Ohio for the period June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2018 which relies on the competitive procurement of load-following full requirements contracts to serve 100% of default service load.
April 2, 2015
Illinois has posted prices and winning suppliers from the Illinois Power Agencies spring 2015 procurement of block energy supplies for default service customers.
April 2, 2015
The Massachusetts DPU has directed the state's four electric utilities to file information regarding their application of the basic service cost recalculation, including the total amount charged over the past year.
March 31, 2015
The shale gas revolution, and outdated utility tariffs, are challenging New York retail natural gas suppliers' ability to compete with default service on a cost basis, Great Eastern Energy CEO Matt Lanfear told EnergyChoiceMatters.com in a recent interview.
March 30, 2015
Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) has filed corrections to its proposed New Hampshire electric default service rates for the six-month period beginning May 1, 2015
March 26, 2015
PECO has posted results from its March 2015 procurement of a portion of electric default service supplies for various periods through 2017.
March 25, 2015
Below are the proposed default service electric rates for customers at Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) in New Hampshire for the six-month period beginning May 1.
March 24, 2015
Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) announced that it has filed with the New Hampshire PUC new electric default service rates
March 24, 2015
Citing an inability to assure customers of savings in the future due to a gas-constrained and potentially volatile ISO New England market, Dead River Company, a Maine retail electric supplier, returned its customers to default service in December 2014, and has now relinquished its Maine electric…
March 18, 2015
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 2015.
March 18, 2015
National Grid fixed basic service rates for Massachusetts residential and commercial electric customers will fall below 9¢/kWh starting in May, under rates filed with the DPU.
March 13, 2015
The District of Columbia PSC opened an investigation into Washington Gas Light Company's default natural gas supply service provided to District of Columbia customers through the Purchase Gas Charge (PGC).
March 12, 2015
Eversource Energy has agreed to sell its Public Service of New Hampshire power plants, which it said would result in at least $300 million in savings to its New Hampshire customers
March 11, 2015
Beginning in December, Unitil in New Hampshire began applying an existing tariff provision retroactively subjecting default customers departing for competitive supply to variable default service rates, prompting customer complaints.
March 11, 2015
Also Cites Dominance of Three Utility Affiliates in Muni Aggregation Deals
Municipal aggregation, as currently structured in several states, "is not real competition," and is dominated by three suppliers currently or formerly affiliated with incumbent utilities, the retail companies of NRG Energy, Inc. said in comments to the New York PSC.
March 6, 2015
Michigan State Rep. Aric Nesbitt, Chair of the House Energy Policy Committee, has introduced a bill (HB 4298) to end electricity choice.
March 4, 2015
Delmarva Power's Delaware procurement of SOS supplies for the period starting June 1, 2015 resulted in residential and small C&I clearing prices lower than the prices from the 2011-12 auction (whose results are being rolled out of the portfolio for mass market customers), while medium and large C&I…
March 4, 2015
The Maryland PSC rejected a contested settlement to set the Standard Offer Service bypassable administrative charges at Pepco and Delmarva, sending the case back for further development, including an analysis of SOS costs included in distribution rates.
March 3, 2015
Utility Discloses Winning Default Service Bidder
March 1, 2015
United Illuminating will self-manage last resort service load for the second quarter of 2015, it disclosed in a post-procurement filing.
