January 30, 2026
Utility Provides Update On POR Balance Under Wind-down
Potomac Edison reported to the Maryland PSC that, as of December 31, 2025, the cumulative Residential POR balance is in an over-recovered position of $381,197.91.
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January 23, 2026
PSC Invites Comments On Utility Filings Regarding POR Design Changes
The District of Columbia PSC invited comments concerning recent data responses from Pepco and Washington Gas Light regarding potential changes to the purchase of receivables discount programs
January 15, 2026
Choice PSC Opens Investigation Of Affordability, Invites Proposals For Greater Consumer Protections
The District of Columbia PSC has opened an investigation into energy affordability, and, among other things, invited proposals for greater consumer protections
January 6, 2026
Utilities Report Barriers To Use Of Supplier-Specific Purchase Of Receivables Discount Rates
Responding to a data request as part of the District of Columbia's investigation of the purchase of receivables (POR) programs, Pepco in Washington D.C. informed the D.C. PSC that Pepco would not be able to implement POR discount rates specific to each retail electric supplier's uncollectibles in…
December 23, 2025
PSC Approves Tariffs Requiring That Customers Be Dropped To Default Service If Customers Not Moved To Dual Billing
The Maryland PSC has approved tariff changes at each of the major utilities with residential electric and gas choice programs which will allow the utilities to drop residential customers to default service if the customer is not moved to dual billing upon the end of residential utility consolidated…
December 18, 2025
PSC Directs Utilities To Report On Feasibility, Cost Of Implementing Supplier-Specific POR Discount Rates
The District of Columbia PSC, in its ongoing proceeding reviewing the purchase of receivables (POR) programs, directed Pepco and Washington Gas Light to report on the feasibility and cost of implementing POR discount rates unique to each specific retail supplier
December 15, 2025
Another Utility Identifies Number Of Customers, By Class, Served By Each Retail Supplier Under POR
In a data response filed with the District of Columbia PSC, Washington Gas Light reported the number of customers billed by each retail natural gas supplier under the purchase of receivables (POR) program
December 5, 2025
Utility Identifies Number Of Customers, By Class, Served By Each Retail Supplier Under POR
In a data response filed with the District of Columbia PSC, Pepco reported the number of customers billed by each retail electric supplier under the purchase of receivables (POR) program
December 3, 2025
Jurisdiction's Department of Energy Proposes Price Caps For Retail Energy, Ban On Auto-Renewals If Price Increases
The District of Columbia Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE) has proposed the imposition of price caps on retail energy suppliers, as well as other retail market reforms, while presenting a report which states that residential shopping customers in D.C. paid $18 million more than default…
December 1, 2025
Residential & Small C&I POR Discount Rates Will More Than Double Under Regulator's Order
The Massachusetts DPU has approved significant increases in the Residential and Small/Regular General Service purchase of receivables discount rates at Fitchburg Gas and Electric (Unitil), under an annual update to the rates
December 1, 2025
PSC Staff Seek Order Allowing Utilities To Drop Customers To Default Service If Retail Supplier Does Not Place Customers On Dual Billing
Staff of the Maryland PSC recommended that the PSC issue an order authorizing the state's utilities to drop residential shopping customers to default service if the customer's supplier has not transitioned the customer to dual billing upon the end of utility consolidated billing with purchase of…
November 21, 2025
In New Rulemaking, Pennsylvania PUC Vice Chair Says Status Quo Only "Starting Point" On Payment, Termination-Related Consumer Protections, Seeks Additional Comments, Including Applicability To Small Business
Yesterday, the Pennsylvania PUC adopted a motion to begin a process to codify existing utility consumer protections related to residential utility payment arrangements, winter terminations, medical certifications, protections for domestic violence victims, and similar protections (Docket…
November 20, 2025
PSC Requires Utilities To Report Data On Customer Uncollectibles Related To Specific Retail Suppliers Under POR Program
The District of Columbia PSC has issued data requests to Pepco and Washington Gas Light concerning the PSC's investigation into the purchase of receivables programs, with the interrogatories including a direction for the utilities to report on each retail supplier's number of residential customers…
November 14, 2025
Retail Suppliers Again Request Stay Of End Of Utility Consolidated Billing
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), CleanChoice Energy Inc., and IDT Energy, Inc. again requested that the Maryland PSC stay its 2024 order which ends grandfathered residential UCB with POR on December 31, 2025, and provides that utilities are not required to offer UCB beyond December 31…
November 13, 2025
Bill Negatively Impacting Retail Choice Reported Favorably, Referred To New Committee
Window For Slamming Complaints Extended To Two Years From Switch
November 5, 2025
PUC Adopts Stipulation Under Which Utility Will Meet With Retail Suppliers Concerning Outstanding Supplier Uncollectibles Due To Billing Issues
The PUC of Ohio adopted without modification a rate case stipulation under which Dayton Power and Light (AES Ohio) will meet with retail suppliers concerning utility billing issues, including discussions of retail supplier uncollectibles resulting from the delayed issuance of EDC bills to customers…
October 31, 2025
PSC Staff, In Essentially Shuttered Retail Market, Apparently Issue Data Request To Retail Suppliers Seeking Views On "Path Forward" To Stable, Competitive, & Sustainable Market; Barriers; Billing Fees To Bring Back UCB
Staff of the Maryland PSC apparently recently issued a data request to retail energy suppliers seeking suppliers' views on a "path forward" in the fostering of a, "stable, competitive, and sustainable residential retail energy market in Maryland."
October 9, 2025
Utilities Detail Steps To End Residential Utility Consolidated Billing
The joint Maryland utilities have filed the steps that they will take to end utility consolidated billing for residential customers effective December 31, 2025
September 30, 2025
Utility, Affiliate Supplier Separately Rebut OPC's Call For Investigation Of Alleged Potential Insider Knowledge Or Preferential Access
Washington Gas Light Company and retail supplier WGL Energy have each filed separate comments rebutting allegations from the District of Columbia Office of People's Counsel that had alleged a "disparity" between lower prices offered by competitive retail supplier WGL Energy, and the rates offered by…
September 30, 2025
Large Pennsylvania Utility Seeks To Impose Per-EDI Transaction Fees On Retail Suppliers
In a new delivery rate case filed with the Pennsylvania PUC today, PPL Electric Utilities has proposed to recover, from retail electric suppliers (EGSs), "on a per-transaction basis," PPL Electric's costs for EDI transactions
September 26, 2025
New York Utilities Oppose Billing Of Non-Commodity Energy-Related Value-Added Product Costs Through Utility Bill, POR, In Response To ESCO Petition
The Joint New York Utilities said that a proposed energy-related value-added product or service (ERVAS), for which NOCO Electric, LLC and NOCO Natural Gas, LLC have sought New York PSC approval, should not be billed under utility consolidated billing, and should not be included in POR
September 26, 2025
PUC Approves Credits For Default Service Customers From Reconciliation Of Prior ISO Charge Adder
Approves New Uncollectible Adders
The Maine PUC has approved a crediting to various Standard Offer electricity customer classes to reflect a reconciliation of prior adders related to an ISO New England fuel security charge, while also setting the Standard Offer uncollectible adders for 2026
September 16, 2025
People's Counsel Seeks Consideration Of Retail Supplier Rate Caps, End Of POR, Prohibition On Low-Income Shopping
The Office of the People's Counsel for the District of Columbia proposed, among other things, a cap on retail supplier rates, as OPC offered comments in a District of Columbia PSC proceeding on the future of the POR programs
September 16, 2025
People's Counsel Recommends PSC Investigate Alleged "Pricing Disparity" Among Utility and Affiliated Competitive Retail Supplier, and Lack of Offerings from Non-Affiliates
The Office of the People's Counsel for the District of Columbia said in comments to the District of Columbia PSC, concerning the purchases of receivables programs in D.C., that OPC recommends that the PSC initiate an investigation into what OPC alleged is a "disparity" between lower prices offered…
September 12, 2025
PUC Approves Stipulation In Which Utility Provides Mitigation Credit To Offset Default Service Uncollectible Adders (Non-POR Market)
The Maine PUC approved without modification a stipulation among Versant Power ("Versant" or the "Company"), and the Maine Office of the Public Advocate (the "OPA") to establish the Standard Offer Uncollectable Adders at Versant's Bangor Hydro District ("BHD") and Maine Public District ("MPD")…