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February 17, 2014
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have filed a draft proposal for adoption to implement the Commission's cease and desist authority, which includes in the preamble a discussion of the circumstances under which the authority may be applied with respect to retail electric providers.
February 13, 2014
Texas Legal Services Center and the Texas Ratepayers Organization to Save Energy requested that the Public Utility Commission of Texas publish more granular complaint data regarding retail electric providers.
February 10, 2014
FERC approved a settlement with Louis Dreyfus Energy Services L.P. (LDES) under which LDES will pay a civil penalty of $4.1 million, and disgorge $3.3 million plus interest, to resolve allegations that LDES violated the Commission’s Anti-Manipulation Rule, 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2 (2013), in connection with…
February 10, 2014
Several ESCOs have renewed their protest at the New York PSC concerning the "pricing inequity" which the ESCOs alleged is embedded in the default service rates charged by KeySpan New York and KeySpan Long Island.
February 7, 2014
The Ontario Energy Board has revoked the electricity and natural gas supplier licences of Energhx Green Energy Corporation for failure to pay a previously ordered administrative penalty.
February 7, 2014
Breeze, LLC would pay $10,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Breeze's alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocols § 16.11.5(1)(b), related to monitoring of a counter-party's creditworthiness and credit exposure by ERCOT.
February 7, 2014
The District of Columbia PSC approved a settlement between Starion Energy PA, Inc. and the D.C. Office of People's Counsel under which Starion Energy will make a donation of $100,000 to a utility assistance program, as well as provide remediation to customers which had complained, to settle an…
February 7, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC rejected as inadequate a settlement between its Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement and Pennsylvania Gas & Electric under which Pennsylvania Gas & Electric was to pay $75,000 to resolve a PUC Staff investigation into the alleged slamming of 10 customers with over 300…
February 5, 2014
The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed by Sunwave Gas & Power Inc. concerning a self-reported error in the required price comparison templates.
February 5, 2014
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has requested information from the Maryland PSC's Office of External Relations concerning complaints filed against Starion Energy.
February 4, 2014
Businesses would be subject to the, "risk of extortionate settlements," if the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals does not reverse a lower court's ruling which granted class action status to a suit against Stream Energy and affiliates without the plaintiffs first proving the alleged improper…
January 29, 2014
A class action lawsuit against a retail supplier has been "certified" to proceed on a class action basis, opening the door for similar suits and potentially threatening the viability for the entire multi-level marketing sales channel approach used by retail suppliers.
January 20, 2014
A customer's original authorization to switch to competitive supply cannot be used to return the customer to competitive supply after a default has placed the customer on utility Standard Service, the Connecticut PURA said in a letter to People's Power & Gas.
January 17, 2014
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel and Attorney General yesterday issued a consumer alert warning that, "thousands of Connecticut residents [are] currently on rates above 17 cents per kWh, [with] some more than double [the] current Standard Offer price."
January 16, 2014
An initial decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would decline to impose a civil penalty on Direct Energy for erroneously overcharging a customer by $1.93, finding that, "this de minimus amount does not rise to a violation warranting the need for a civil penalty to deter future violations."
January 15, 2014
Two retail electric suppliers have reached draft settlements with the Connecticut PURA regarding a PURA decision which originally ordered the imposition of what the suppliers saw as excessive alternative compliance payments.
January 14, 2014
NextEra Energy Power Marketing, LLC would pay $5,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve its alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocol § 6.4.3.1, relating to energy offer curves for RUC-committed resources.
January 8, 2014
FERC issued a public notice of alleged violations stating that a non-public, informal investigation by Staff of FERC's Office of Enforcement, "has preliminarily determined that Louis Dreyfus Energy Services, L.P. (LDES) violated 18 C.F.R. § 1c.2 (2013) by placing virtual trades in MISO at a node in…
January 3, 2014
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) to address circumstances of overlapping jurisdiction and to share information in connection with market surveillance and investigations into potential…
December 20, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC has approved a settlement under which Public Power, LLC will pay a $64,000 civil settlement amount, plus issue customer refunds, to resolve alleged slamming violations stemming from a file transmission error.
December 12, 2013
The Ontario Energy Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed by Summitt Energy Management Inc. concerning the result of a Board staff review of customer contracts.
December 10, 2013
Starion Energy PA, Inc. would make a donation of $100,000 to a utility assistance program, as well as provide remediation to customers which had complained, to settle an investigation into the supplier by the District of Columbia PSC.
December 6, 2013
The Ontario Energy Board has accepted an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed by Just Energy Ontario L.P. concerning the result of a Board Staff review of customer contracts.
December 6, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted in a final order a revised settlement with Constellation Energy Power Choice, Inc. f/k/a MXenergy Electric Inc. which includes a $22,000 fine to resolve 22 allegations of slamming, and includes a cap and other prohibitions on early termination fees.
December 5, 2013
An initial decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would deny a customer complaint against Ambit Northeast, LLC d/b/a Ambit Energy concerning variable rate disclosures, but would refer the language back to PUC Staff, as the customer's confusion, "may indicate a need to review the approved disclosure…
