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January 19, 2018
The Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance (MEGA), which is already an approved administrator for various community choice aggregations (CCAs) in New York, has filed with the PSC for authorization to offer opt-out aggregations in several additional municipalities.
January 18, 2018
Update, 1/19: The PSC's final written order authorizing Good Energy's CCAs includes the provisions contained in draft discussion document, and the descriptions below are consistent with the language adopted in the final order
January 17, 2018
A Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Subgroup tasked with examining barriers to municipal aggregation, particularly with respect to the use of CCAs in meeting various clean energy goals, has filed a report with the New York PSC on the working group process that summarizes various recommendations…
December 18, 2017
The New York PSC has issued a request from stakeholders for further input regarding the appropriate balance between the benefit of making more utility customer aggregated usage data available and the need to maintain consumer privacy.
December 15, 2017
The New York PSC has established fees for access to aggregated community load data, as well as the customer information needed for opt-out mailings, for municipal aggregation (community choice aggregation or CCA) programs.
December 1, 2017
"That's All That Staff's Got" In Push To End Choice, Witness Says
A "flawed" comparison of ex post revenues from default service customers versus ESCO customers, submitted by Staff of the New York Department of Public Service, is, "all that Staff's got," in Staff's push to largely end retail choice in the mass market (except for a limited set of products or…
November 14, 2017
For a second consecutive term, the City of Cincinnati has selected Constellation to provide monthly variable-rate natural gas supply to more than 40,000 Cincinnati residents and small businesses under the city's opt-out municipal aggregation for natural gas
November 14, 2017
Crius Reports Negative Impact On Q3 Results From Mild Weather
Crius Energy Trust reported Adjusted EBITDA of $18.3 million in the third quarter of 2017, representing a decrease from $20.6 million achieved in the third quarter of 2016.
October 27, 2017
The California PUC adopted a decision which allows customers of direct access providers and community choice aggregators to avoid paying the tariffed rates used to recover the costs of discrete utility-offered demand response (DR) programs, if the customer's competitive LSE offers a DR program…
October 23, 2017
The Municipal Electric and Gas Alliance, which as reported last week received New York PSC approval for its opt-out municipal aggregation implementation plan, with an initial list of municipalities, informed the PSC that additional towns have approved opt-out aggregations to be run by MEGA
October 19, 2017
(Earlier) Draft New York PSC Order: Municipal Aggregations Must Provide Guaranteed Savings Versus Default Service To Serve Low-Income Customers
October 18, 2017
Consumer Demand for Energy Innovations Driving New Market Openings
The National Energy Marketers Association next week will host Nevada Lieutenant Governor Mark Hutchison, Nevada Assemblyman Chris Brooks, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, and a variety of other policymakers and retail energy thought leaders as NEM hosts an examination and symposium on opening…
September 22, 2017
Facebook has switched all electric accounts at its Menlo Park headquarters to Peninsula Clean Energy’s (PCE) ECO100 option, which is an option 100% renewable energy product for participants in the PCE community choice aggregation
September 18, 2017
DPS Staff: Only 6 (of 100+) ESCOs Beat ConEd Bill in 2016
September 5, 2017
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio scheduled a workshop for October 3, 2017 concerning the periodic five-year review of several of the retail electric and natural gas rules
August 25, 2017
The Massachusetts DPU issued an order concerning the customers eligible to be included in electricity municipal aggregations on an opt-out basis.
August 15, 2017
Crius Energy announced today that in July 2017 it acquired a 100% equity interest in Big Sky Gas, a natural gas marketing business with approximately 4,000 customers based in Montana.
July 17, 2017
Residential customers on competitive electric supply at Ameren, where opt-out municipal aggregation accounts for 90% of switched residential customers, paid on average nearly 0.7¢/kWh above the default service rate for electricity supply during the 12-month period ending May 31, 2017, according to a…
July 17, 2017
Non-Aggregation Residential Shopping At ComEd Increases By 175,000 As Aggregations Shrink By 300,000
Residential customers on competitive electric supply at Commonwealth Edison, where opt-out municipal aggregation accounts for 40% of switched residential customers, paid on average nearly 1.5¢/kWh above the default service rate for electricity supply during the 12-month period ending May 31, 2017…
July 6, 2017
The New Hampshire Lakes Region Planning Commission (LRPC) applied for a New Hampshire electric aggregator certificate.
June 27, 2017
Start-up Zinger Strategies LLC applied for Ohio electricity and natural gas broker/aggregator licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas.
June 13, 2017
The New York PSC has requested public comment on whether the large investor-owned utilities should be required to submit community-level aggregated data to a Utility Energy Registry (UER).
May 22, 2017
The number of business customers eligible for direct access can be increased immediately without new legislation, Ron Perry, CEO of Commercial Energy, told a California en banc hearing on retail electric choice.
May 22, 2017
Electricity community choice aggregations (CCA) in California are only passing 1-2% in savings on to their customers even as the competitive wholesale market produces gross margin of 30% versus the utility rate, Ron Perry, CEO of Commercial Energy, told a California en banc hearing on retail…
May 15, 2017
The imprecise language used in proposed revisions to the New York Uniform Business Practices to implement the PSC's finding that switches made pursuant to an opt-out municipal aggregation do not constitute slamming could be interpreted as authorizing municipal aggregators to switch any customer…
