March 17, 2011
First Choice Power will open a third storefront office, this one in Mission, Texas, this spring, it said yesterday in announcing a sponsorship associated with a new arts center in the City of Lewisville, which is where First Choice Power opened its first storefront office last July (6/14) .
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March 11, 2011
Texpo Energy has launched an affinity program with Texas Southern University, branded the TSU Tiger Power Plan, under which Texpo will make a donation to Texas Southern University Athletics and its programs for each kilowatt-hour consumed by a participating customer.
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March 9, 2011
Due to a comprehensive program to improve its service to brokers and similar channels, Direct Energy Business said yesterday that it has improved to second in KEMA Inc.'s annual rankings of channel partner overall satisfaction with retail suppliers.
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March 3, 2011
Stream Energy to Announce Fourth State on March 5
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March 1, 2011
Constellation NewEnergy is supporting its Commonwealth Edison residential electric offers with 2.2 million pieces of direct mail, along with a variety of other marketing initiatives, said David Fein, Constellation Energy's Vice President of Energy Policy for the Midwest and Pennsylvania.
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March 1, 2011
Spark Energy has launched a network marketing affiliate, Ampegy, which will include in a leadership role Steve Smith, co-founder of Excel Communications, a pioneer in the use of multi-level marketing in telecom during the 1990s.
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February 17, 2011
Dynastar Ventures, Inc. said yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire My Affordable Energy, LLC, a Texas-based direct selling company focused on selling energy services.
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February 11, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC voted yesterday to issue a proposed rulemaking on marketing and sales practices for electric generation suppliers (EGSs) and natural gas suppliers (NGSs).
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February 7, 2011
Constellation expects to invest additional marketing dollars over the next few years to expand its NewEnergy retail supplier into new regions and increase the number of mass market customers its serves, Constellation CEO Mayo Shattuck said during an earnings call Friday.
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February 4, 2011
In reporting earnings this morning, Constellation Energy reported that its residential offerings in Maryland and New Jersey have resulted in more than 80,000 customers by year end.
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February 2, 2011
Direct Energy has launched residential electric and natural gas offerings at Public Service Electric & Gas.
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January 28, 2011
"This whole notion of the Wild West, free market is going to set us all free is being challenged by some of this real life consumer protection stuff we're encountering," Maryland PSC Chairman Douglas Nazarian said in opening Wednesday's hearing on a show cause order issued to North American Power…
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January 27, 2011
The Maryland PSC yesterday heard from Staff and North American Power and Gas LLC regarding Staff's complaint against North American Power (see 1/10) , and took the matter under advisement after several hours of testimony.
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January 17, 2011
Md. PSC Issues Show Cause Order to North American Power The Maryland PSC issued a show cause order to North American Power and Gas, LLC directing the supplier to appear at the PSC's January 26 administrative meeting to show cause why North American Power should not have its license suspended or…
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January 17, 2011
5Linx Enterprises, Inc., a direct/multi-level marketing company that offers various telecom and other services, is expanding its product suite to include competitive electricity and natural gas sales, with a rollout sometime this month.
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January 4, 2011
Verde Energy USA announced that it recently enrolled its 100,000th customer for retail electric service.
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December 16, 2010
StarTex Power has entered into an agreement with the City of Sugar Land and the Sugar Land Skeeters for the naming rights and associated branding opportunities for the Skeeters' new Triple-A baseball facility, part of StarTex's continued focus on community-driven initiatives to support customer…
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November 18, 2010
Constellation Energy is extending its New Jersey residential electric offers at Public Service Electric & Gas and Jersey Central Power & Light, and has already signed more than 16,000 customers since launching the programs in late August ( 8/27 ).
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November 17, 2010
Direct Energy will be using a full array of marketing and advertising channels to support its new PECO residential electric offers, Cory Byzewski, Vice President and General Manager, US North, for Direct Energy Residential, told Matters yesterday.
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November 16, 2010
MXenergy Seeking Illinois Electric License MXenergy has submitted an application for an Illinois alternative retail electric supplier license. A copy of MXenergy's application was not immediately available.
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November 15, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted a final order Friday establishing interim guidelines for eligible customer lists (ECL) to be made available to electric generation suppliers by electric distribution companies (M-2010-2183412). A written order signed electronically by the Secretary was posted on the PUC…
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November 10, 2010
The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Stream Energy and affiliated companies (collectively, Stream), finding that the contract which the plaintiff, Perry Betts, had with Stream's marketing arm Ignite was not unenforceable merely…
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November 10, 2010
FirstEnergy Solutions Not Signing Opt-Out Aggregation Agreements Until PUC Matter Resolved FirstEnergy Solutions confirmed this morning that it is not signing any opt-out municipal aggregation contracts with Pennsylvania home rule municipalities until the PUC resolves the legal questions of such…
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November 10, 2010
Hess Small Business Services is expanding its electric and natural gas marketing to small commercial customers in upstate New York and New Jersey.
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November 8, 2010
Oasis Energy Seeking Pennsylvania Gas License Oasis Power LLC, d/b/a Oasis Energy, applied for a Pennsylvania natural gas supplier license to serve all customer classes, including residential customers, at UGI Utilities.
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