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August 17, 2026
In comments to the Pennsylvania PUC, the Office of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro favors the expansion of utility customer usage data sharing to distributed energy resource (DER) aggregators, but opposed delegating a mechanism for such sharing to the Electronic Data Exchange Working Group…
June 30, 2026
The Maryland PSC has approved several electric distribution system support services (EDSSS) pilot program offerings, such as VPPs, at the electric utilities (the DRIVE Act programs), while rejecting other proposals, as the PSC also addressed the interaction of various statutes governing funding and…
June 30, 2026
In a procedural update in a docket that has included a broad energy affordability review, the Massachusetts DPU said that, with regards to the feasibility of creating a maximum threshold for the amount that charges assessed to customers may change from one month to another, the DPU, "intends to…
June 19, 2026
The New Hampshire PUC has mitigated the 21¢ per kWh small customer electric default service rate which had been calculated at Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities) due to a reconciliation factor of about 7 cents per kWh
June 1, 2026
The Maine PUC Staff have informed stakeholders that, at this time, Versant Power’s Maine Public District (formerly Maine Public Service) is being removed from consideration in connection with various straw proposals for implementing time of use default service rates
March 6, 2026
PPL Electric Utilities Corporation and the Joint Solar Advocates have reached a settlement concerning PPL Electric's proposal, made in a rate case, to change how customers are categorized into a default service class (fixed price vs hourly)
February 19, 2026
Comanche Peak Power Company LLC ('CP Company'), which is ultimately owned by Vistra, applied at the Texas PUC for approval of implementation of a proposed net metering arrangement between a large load (identity not disclosed publicly) and CP Company’s generation resource ('Comanche Peak') pursuant…
January 15, 2026
The Pennsylvania PUC approved language at Citizens’ Electric Company of Lewisburg which will change how the demand of customer-generators is measured, which may impact the default service class (fixed price vs hourly) into which a customer-generator is assigned
January 6, 2026
ENGIE North America announced that it is bringing two new community solar farms online in Knox County, Illinois
December 18, 2025
The Pennsylvania PUC has published proposed rules which would govern the aggregation of distributed energy resources (DERs) for participation in PJM's wholesale markets
December 15, 2025
The Massachusetts DPU has opened a broad investigation to review electric and natural gas rates in order to contain customer costs, reduce bill volatility, and to increase electric and gas utility bill transparency and accessibility.
November 4, 2025
Mandates Retail Suppliers Use TOU Rates If Serving Certain Customers
Both Illinois houses recently passed and enrolled SB 25 which, among other things, requires the Illinois Power Agency to include in its procurement plan, "the procurement of energy, capacity, environmental attributes, resource adequacy attributes, or some combination thereof intended to serve all…
October 28, 2025
Omega US Holding II, LLC filed at the Texas PUC to voluntarily relinquish its Option 2 Texas retail electric provider certificate
September 12, 2025
Staff of the Texas PUC have filed a draft proposal for publication to implement PURA §39.169 (part of SB 6), relating to net metering arrangements involving a large load co-located with an existing generation resource
July 22, 2025
ENGIE North America (ENGIE) announced an agreement to acquire a portfolio of 22 net energy metered (NEM) solar energy projects in Pennsylvania, totaling more than 70 MW, from Prospect14, a Pennsylvania-based solar energy developer.
February 20, 2025
The Pennsylvania PUC denied a bid from Penn Renewables, LLC to increase the cutoff for fixed-price default service rates at UGI Utilities - Electric Division to 3 MW, from the current 100 kW threshold, and also rejected Penn Renewables' argument that hourly priced default service violates…
December 3, 2024
ALJs Deny Argument That Hourly Default Service Rates Violate PUC Regulations
Two ALJs would deny a bid from…
October 22, 2024
A non-unanimous settlement governing the provision of default service at…
September 20, 2024
Staff of the Texas PUC have voiced support for the elimination of one of the key designs of the original ERCOT energy-only market
February 14, 2024
At its administrative meeting today, a PSC…
October 9, 2023
Direct Energy in Texas launched a new residential electricity plan that provides unlimited monthly bill credits for solar power exported to the grid, called the Direct Solar Unlimited electricity plan
September 14, 2023
A retail energy supplier reported results from what it termed a 30-day pilot solar buyback program for Texas customers during August
August 17, 2023
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (the OPA) requested that the Maine PUC open an investigation to assess the impact of net energy billing (NEB) on electricity standard offer rates
January 24, 2023
Reliant in Texas has launched a new one-stop-shop rooftop solar offer along with a solar concierge service in Texas
October 7, 2022
Retail electric provider Energy Texas has launched in Texas a solar buy back product for residential customers
