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December 4, 2013
Maxim Power Corp. announced today that Patriot Power Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Rockland Capital, has issued a notice to Maxim to terminate the agreement to purchase 100% of Maxim's ownership interest in Maxim Power (USA), Inc. due to an outstanding regulatory inquiry by the Federal Energy…
December 4, 2013
ResCom Energy LLC would pay $59,000 under a settlement with the Pennsylvania PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) to resolve an investigation into alleged slamming, Do Not Call violations, and other marketing violations.
December 3, 2013
Direct Energy has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to "look closely" at transactions between Duke Energy Ohio and Duke Energy Retail Services [sic] (DERS) after an audit identified an error concerning a journal entry related to a REC sale.
November 27, 2013
Luminant Energy Company, LLC would pay $750,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas concerning the alleged failure of several Luminant units on February 2, 2011, to be on-line at an output level at least equal to each unit's low sustained limit (LSL) within 25…
November 22, 2013
Dynegy Receives Final Approval for Acquisition of Ameren Plants, Retail Supplier
November 22, 2013
The Connecticut PURA issued a final order regarding RPS compliance for the year 2010 which denies the request of three retail suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the RPS requirements through RECs that were not settled in the Connecticut Subaccount in GIS, in lieu of paying the higher…
November 21, 2013
Energy Services Providers, Inc. d/b/a Pennsylvania Gas & Electric and U. S. Gas & Electric, Inc. d/b/a Pennsylvania Gas & Electric would pay $75,000 to resolve a Pennsylvania PUC Staff investigation into the alleged slamming of 10 customers with over 300 accounts, due to what USG&E said was an…
November 18, 2013
The New York PSC reinstated Liberty Power Holdings LLC's ability to conduct door-to-door marketing, but placed the supplier on probation during which time, "any Liberty Power UBP marketing violations may subject Liberty Power to immediate revocation of its authority to act as an ESCO in New York."
November 15, 2013
The Ontario Energy Board announced an intention to issue an order requiring Just Energy Ontario LP to comply with a number of enforceable provisions and to pay an administrative penalty in the amount of $60,000 (all $ Canadian), "for breaches of enforceable provisions."
November 7, 2013
Starion Energy PA. Inc. and the District of Columbia Office of the People's Counsel said that they have reached a settlement in principle regarding a PSC investigation into Starion's business and solicitation practices, and asked that a hearing be suspended to allow the settlement to be finalized.
November 7, 2013
The Delaware PSC has opened an investigation into complaints regarding Starion Energy PA, Inc., its agents, or both, and the business practices of the company and its agents in soliciting Delaware customers.
November 4, 2013
Enerwise Global Technologies, Inc. would pay $12,500 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve Staff's investigation of Enerwise for alleged violation of P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.503(f)(2), and ERCOT Protocol § 8.1.3.1(6)(a) due to failure to deploy its Emergency…
November 1, 2013
Liberty Power Holdings, LLC asked the New York PSC, in light of Liberty's remediation and compliance program, to enter an order reinstating Liberty Power's eligibility to conduct door-to-door marketing in New York, citing the, "deleterious financial impacts on the [c]ompany," from a prior suspension…
October 22, 2013
A formal complaint filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas has taken on additional significance because one of the key allegations from the customer concerns the average pricing methodology quoted in the Electricity Facts Label for a Time of Use product.
October 21, 2013
FERC approved a settlement between its Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) and Exelon Corporation to resolve an investigation into Constellation Energy Commodities Group's (CECG's) alleged submission of inaccurate information.
October 18, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC approved in final orders, without substantive modification, separate settlements with AP Gas & Electric (PA), LLC, d/b/a APG&E, and with IDT Energy, Inc., concerning various alleged violations of marketing and customer protection provisions.
October 18, 2013
The New York PSC found that remedial measures taken by Buy Energy Direct, LLC have reduced customer complaints concerning marketing, but because the measures have not yet been proven in the long-term, the PSC ordered that Buy Energy Direct's decision to suspend direct marketing to residential…
October 18, 2013
A group of retail suppliers filing as the Consortium of Concerned ESCOs has petitioned the New York PSC to resolve, "discriminatory pricing practices and inequitable and anticompetitive policies regarding the allocation and access to all gas capacity assets," at KeySpan New York and KeySpan Long…
October 15, 2013
Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson called StarTex Power's customer service at issue in a formal complaint case, "pitiful," in discussing the case at the October 3 open meeting.
October 10, 2013
Entrust Energy, Inc. would pay $60,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve a Staff investigation into alleged violations of consumer protection rules.
October 9, 2013
Proton Energy, Inc. has filed a formal response to a petition from Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to revoke Proton Energy's REP certificate and fine the company $2 million.
October 9, 2013
Connecticut's default service procurement manager, Jeff Gaudiosi, alleged that he was the recipient of a sales call from a retail supplier which included information that, "was not accurate," including an allegation that the sales rep cited default service rates as high as 10 cents.
September 30, 2013
EDF Trading North America, LLC would pay $30,000 under a settlement with Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to resolve EDF's alleged failure to adhere to ERCOT Protocol §8.1.1.4.3(3)(b), related to non-spinning reserve service (NSRS) energy deployment criteria on March 9, 2012 and March…
September 30, 2013
Electric consumer complaints have fallen for the fourth consecutive year in Texas and now stand at the lowest level so far recorded under the state’s electric deregulation law, the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power said today in releasing an analysis.
September 27, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC would grant, in a tentative order, Palmco Energy PA, LLC an expanded natural gas supplier license, but, due to certain complaints against an affiliate, subjected the license to certain compliance and reporting conditions.
