March 30, 2022
New York Department of Public Service Staff have filed a straw proposal that would establish terms for allowing municipal aggregations (CCAs) to provide community distributed generation (CDG) to customers on an opt-out basis
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March 28, 2022
Resulting New Default Service Rates Falling 12% For Mass Market Customers
An EDC has filed new default service rates for the period beginning June 1, 2022.
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March 28, 2022
Supplier Serves Over 100 Muni Aggregations
A retail energy supplier has filed a Chapter 11 voluntary bankruptcy petition with a federal court
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March 21, 2022
Denies Request For More Frequent True-up Between Potentially Unlinked Retail Rates, Wholesale Costs
A retail energy regulator has approved an alternative electricity basic service (default service) procurement mechanism at
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March 11, 2022
Utility, With Active Choice Program, Says If New Service Not Successful, Utility Could Itself Offer Carbon-Free Gas Option
A utility has proposed at a PUC a service meant to facilitate the optional purchase of "decarbonized" natural gas by customers from competitive retail energy suppliers
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February 25, 2022
Declines (For Now) Nonbypassable Charge For Competitive Supply Customers, But Says Cost Sharing Should Be Considered, Sets Future Proceeding
A PUC adopted a decision establishing biomethane (i.e., renewable natural gas and/or bio-synthetic natural gas) procurement targets for investor-owned utilities.
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February 21, 2022
An EDC has proposed an alternative procurement methodology for default service electricity supply
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February 4, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC issued a notice stating that a public hearing will be held at the Commission on March 7, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. concerning the PUC's proposed rules to implement opt-out municipal aggregation and recent legislation related thereto (DRM 21-142)
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January 27, 2022
PUC Denies Initial Two Opt-Out Aggregations Without Prejudice Given That Rules Haven't Been Adopted Yet
The New Hampshire PUC has denied, without prejudice, the separate applications of Lebanon Community Power (City of Lebanon) and the Town of Harrisville for approval of their opt-out electricity aggregation plans
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January 12, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC opened a rulemaking to implement recent legislative revisions governing opt-out municipal aggregation
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January 11, 2022
The City of Yonkers has joined the Westchester Power opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity, with service to begin March 1
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January 5, 2022
The Montgomery County (MD) Community Choice Pilot Program Working Group filed a letter with the Maryland PSC concerning the timing of the transition of customers from their current service to a new pilot opt-out Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) for Montgomery County, and the effect this might have…
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December 17, 2021
Group Includes Nashua, Collectively Represent 15% Of State's Population
Sixteen municipalities and one county in New Hampshire which recently joined together to incorporate the Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire (CPCNH or The Coalition) have issued an RFI for support services
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December 17, 2021
Boyne Capital Partners (Boyne), a private equity firm, officially announced that its portfolio company, Pilot Power Group (Pilot) has acquired Trebel Energy (Trebel or the Company), a provider of electricity and natural gas procurement services to municipal aggregation (CCA) and commercial clients…
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December 9, 2021
Scout Clean Energy and Peninsula Clean Energy have signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that will provide San Mateo County and city of Los Banos customers with 76.35 megawatts (MW) from the repowering of the Pacheco Pass Wind Farm in Merced County, CA (to be renamed the Gonzaga Ridge Wind…
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December 6, 2021
Broker-consultant Trebel, LLC, whose services include a particular focus on municipal aggregation, has undergone a reorganization and ownership change such that Trebel, LLC was acquired by and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trebel Seller, LLC.
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November 9, 2021
MassPowerChoice, LLC applied for a Massachusetts electricity broker license to serve commercial and industrial customers.
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October 22, 2021
The Massachusetts DPU has approved a rate mitigation mechanism for basic service (default service) rates at Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) that will cap an upcoming increase in basic service electric rates for the period December 1, 2021 through May 31, 2022
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October 19, 2021
Freedom Energy Logistics announced today that Bart Fromuth has been named Chief Executive Officer.
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October 16, 2021
In comments to the Massachusetts DPU, Colonial Power Group (CPG) urged Unitil (Fitchburg Gas and Electric) to submit plans or alternatives for the provision of basic (default) service for its residential and small general customers, "given the high likelihood that the City of Fitchburg will launch…
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October 12, 2021
The Connecticut PURA has posted a draft report from its study to examine the potential opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of electricity community choice aggregation (CCA) for the State of Connecticut
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October 8, 2021
Freedom Energy Logistics (Freedom Energy) and Colonial Power Group (CPG) announced a strategic partnership concerning services to municipalities in New Hampshire, with a focus on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), as well as municipalities' own accounts.
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October 8, 2021
Deferral Would Be Recovered From All Distribution Customers
Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) has reached a compromise to cap an upcoming increase in default service (basic service) electric rates, for the period starting December 1, 2021, and asked the Massachusetts DPU to approve the capped rates
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October 4, 2021
Winning Supplier Disclosed
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU electric basic service rates for the period beginning December 1, 2021.
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September 24, 2021
The City of Boston, which operates an opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity, has renewed its request for reconsideration at the Massachusetts DPU in which the City is seeking an order from the DPU to require Nstar to share a list of currently shopping customers with the City
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