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May 4, 2021
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that NRG Residential Solar Solutions LLC ('NRG') has agreed to pay approximately $69,000, "to resolve allegations that it used deceptive sales practices to mislead consumers into leasing solar energy panels, failed to deliver promised energy…
May 4, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty to Mega Energy of New England, LLC (Mega or Company) under which PURA would adopt, among other things, a $750,000 fine and which would require Mega to return all…
April 29, 2021
Direct Energy Services, LLC ('Direct' or 'Direct Energy') would pay a civil penalty of $125,000 under a partial settlement with Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission ('Staff') and the Maryland Office of Peoples Counsel ('OPC') to resolve certain alleged violations of COMAR
April 16, 2021
A spokesperson at Symmetry Energy provided an additional statement concerning the matter:
April 16, 2021
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened separate investigations into Liberty Power Holdings LLC (Liberty Power) and Switch Energy LLC to review alleged potential violations of various provisions of the Ill. Adm. Code, Public Utilities Act (PUA) and Section 2EE of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive…
April 15, 2021
The Pennsylvania PUC approved without modification a settlement between Vista Energy Marketing, L.P. and the PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E), under which Vista will pay $4,000 to resolve four alleged instances of slamming
April 15, 2021
Relates To Pricing Disclosures, Alleged Slamming
The Pennsylvania PUC approved without modification a settlement between Liberty Power Holdings, LLC ("Liberty Power") and the PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement ('I&E') under which Liberty Power will pay $82,800, and provide certain customer refunds, to resolve allegations that its…
April 9, 2021
The Maryland PSC has granted a stay of its recent order which had, among other things, required that SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC d/b/a SmartEnergy (“SmartEnergy” or the “Company”) return its customers enrolled through telesales to default service and which had ordered certain customer refunds
April 5, 2021
Greater Boston Legal Services said in a news release that the parties in Fuentes et al. v. SFE Energy Massachusetts, Inc., a case in which the plaintiffs had brought a suit seeking class action status which was filed in Massachusetts Superior Court (Middlesex County), have reached a settlement.
April 1, 2021
Updated, 7:51 pm ET with statement from CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC
April 1, 2021
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a report that found, "in the last five years, individual residential customers who received their electricity from competitive suppliers paid $426 million more on their bills than they would have paid if they had stayed with their utility…
April 1, 2021
The Maryland PSC ordered SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC to return all of its Maryland customers that were solicited and enrolled via telephone, in response to the supplier’s direct mail advertising, to utility standard offer service, as the PSC found that SmartEnergy failed to comply with the Maryland…
March 31, 2021
(Earlier): Texas Retail Provider Acquires Another Customer Book
GB Power provided the statement below concerning the matter. Concerning the allegations made by PUCT Staff, GB Power emphasized that although there was an investigation, there was also a negotiation and potential settlement with the PUCT.
March 30, 2021
The Public Utility Commission of Texas announced that, "As part of the agency’s ongoing modernization efforts, the Public Utility Commission of Texas today named Davida Dwyer deputy director of the agency’s Legal Division and head of the agency’s enforcement efforts."
March 30, 2021
ERCOT announced that, "On March 30, 2021, ERCOT entered into a payment plan with Bulb US LLC (Bulb), a short-paying Invoice Recipient, to enable ERCOT to collect all outstanding amounts from Bulb totaling $8,622.013.00 (final payment due on April 14, 2021), and pay short-paid Market Participants."
March 25, 2021
Texas retail electric provider GridPlus filed a letter with the Texas PUC stating, "This letter notifies Commission Staff of GridPlus's intent to enter into a payment plan covering GridPlus's outstanding obligations to ERCOT, and requests that Staff forebear from any initiatives to revoke GridPlus's…
March 25, 2021
The Pennsylvania PUC approved without modification a settlement between Reliant Energy Northeast LLC d/b/a NRG Home and the PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement ('I&E'), concerning alleged violations arising from a self-reporting of issues by NRG
March 24, 2021
PUC Commissioner Says Lack Of Quality Assurance By Suppliers May Be Inferred As Speaking To Supplier's Technical Competence (Or Lack Thereof) For Continued Licensure
March 22, 2021
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas filed a petition to revoke the retail electric provider (REP) certificate of Volt Electricity Provider LP (Volt) as Staff alleged that ERCOT has revoked all rights of Volt to conduct activity in the ERCOT market
March 18, 2021
Recommends Supplier's Existing Customers Be Returned To SOS Unless "Signed" Contract Obtained
The Staff of the Public Service Commission of Maryland ('Staff') filed a complaint against StateWise Energy Maryland LLC ('StateWise' or the 'Company') and sought an order from the PSC directing that StateWise, "show cause why its license to provide electricity and electricity supply services, and…
March 18, 2021
Mega Energy of New England, LLC ("Mega Energy" or the "Company") has entered into a settlement with the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement ("EOE") of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of Connecticut to resolve the allegation that Mega Energy had not timely filed its 2019 annual…
March 18, 2021
Settlement Also Includes Customer Refunds, Changes In Sales Practices
Atlantic Energy MD, LLC (Atlantic Energy) would pay a civil penalty of $250,000 as part of a settlement with Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission (Staff) and the Maryland Office of People's Counsel (OPC) (collectively, the "Settling Parties") to resolve various alleged violations by…
March 16, 2021
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released the following statement in response to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by Griddy Energy, LLC:
March 16, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Residents Energy, LLC (Residents or Company), in which the Authority seeks to fine Residents in the amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars…
March 8, 2021
Attorneys pursuing a class action claim on behalf of almost 30,000 customers of Griddy announced that they, "have filed a motion to prevent the electricity provider from tampering with any internal documentation or physical evidence stemming from the February winter storm in Texas."
