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.
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January 12, 2016
New York ESCOs claimed that releasing average residential pricing data of ESCOs by New York ISO Zone and utility service area would allow competitors to determine their margin and hedging strategy, harming the competitive market
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January 7, 2016
The Maryland PSC issued an order addressing proposed changes to the financial qualification requirements and bid timing of the electric SOS procurement process.
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December 31, 2015
A proposed order from a Pennsylvania ALJ would approve 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
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November 20, 2015
Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson expressed concerns with potential uplift costs under a multi-interval real-time market (MIRTM) in ERCOT, particularly as LSEs such as retail providers cannot hedge such uplift.
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November 13, 2015
Just Energy reported increased Base EBITDA for the quarter ending September 30, 2015, as a result of higher margins.
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November 1, 2015
Constellation's retail business is having a "very strong" year, Exelon executives said during a third quarter earnings call
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November 1, 2015
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. is still considering launching a retail supplier, but CEO Ralph Izzo said that any retail effort would not be an "offesnive" play.
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October 23, 2015
Santanna Energy Services announced that it has entered into a five-year agreement with Twin Eagle Resource Management, LLC.
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October 22, 2015
A recently proposed supplemental winter supply and balancing program (Managed Supply Service, MSS) to be offered by Consolidated Edison to natural gas ESCOs was welcomed by Great Eastern Energy as a, "small step towards improving [ConEd's] retail access program, albeit a very small step," the ESCO…
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September 30, 2015
Great Eastern Energy announced the completion of a credit support and financing arrangement with Macquarie Group Limited
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September 29, 2015
The Illinois Power Agency has filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission its 2016 procurement plan for default service power suppliers.
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September 21, 2015
Start up Texas retail provider Quest Distributors LLC d/b/a My Quest Energy has retained the services of Malik Charania for risk management functions, according to a supplement to the company's REP certificate application.
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September 1, 2015
While retail suppliers have more lead time to account for the higher capacity performance prices under the initial base residual auction featuring the new performance product for the 2018/19 delivery year (click here for recent results) , retail suppliers are facing a near doubling of capacity…
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August 26, 2015
WGL Energy has been selected to supply approximately 400,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity to more than 700 District of Columbia city government accounts.
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August 12, 2015
Favoring a stakeholder-driven solution over a unilateral board-developed solution, Direct Energy Business has offered to lead discussions about raising the PJM energy market offer cap and presented its own proposal
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June 25, 2015
The Maine PUC has initiated an inquiry to examine current and potential alternative regulatory and rate-setting approaches for natural gas local distribution company (LDC) supply-related decisions and costs (Docket 2015-00155)
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May 7, 2015
Staff of the New Hampshire PUC have recommended that for the residential and small commercial customers, the PUC should use six-month contracts for default service, with 100% of required load being bid at each procurement.
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April 30, 2015
Exelon's Constellation retail business is seeing strong margins, well within its benchmarked range, executives said yesterday in reporting earnings.
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April 29, 2015
AGL Resources said that its first quarter 2015 earnings were lifted by improvement in its retail energy marketing segment.
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April 17, 2015
Reflecting market pricing, "should not be the primary goal of default service," the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning (OEP) said in comments to the New Hampshire PUC in an investigation concerning the design of default service.
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March 10, 2015
PJM relied on the filed rate doctrine in opposing Champion Energy's request for a refund of what Champion said were unjust and unreasonable uplift charges during the polar vortex, but now it is retail suppliers who say PJM is ignoring the filed rate doctrine in seeking to impose a capacity…
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February 19, 2015
Champion Energy Marketing LLC has filed a complaint at FERC against PJM regarding PJM's allocation of balancing operating reserves for January 2014.
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February 16, 2015
Exelon expects that retail energy competitors will remain "aggressive" in pursuing market share in the current commodity price environment.
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February 13, 2015
The Pennsylvania PUC has approved a default service plan for Citizens’ Electric Company and Wellsboro Electric Company which ditches the formerly used stratified procurement approach in favor of the bidding of load-following tranches indexed to PJM prices, plus a retail adder.
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