December 13, 2024
The Retail Energy Advancement League and Green Mountain Energy Company (Plaintiffs) have appealed to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a federal district court's denial of Plaintiffs' sought preliminary injunction against Maryland's new law SB1
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December 12, 2024
The Pennsylvania PUC has modified several bypassable charges, and the purchase of receivables discount rates, for…
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December 11, 2024
PSC Presses Retail Suppliers To "Expeditiously" Commit To Using Supplier Consolidated Billing PSC Rules New Law Banning POR Does Not Prohibit Utility's Re-purchase Of Delivery Receivables Under SCB
Citing a lack of retail suppliers who have agreed to participate in utility testing for supplier consolidated billing, a PSC ordered the state's utilities to pause work on implementing supplier consolidated billing (SCB)
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December 2, 2024
The Maryland PSC will hold a further hearing on changes to the retail energy market and related rules and processes in light of SB1
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October 14, 2024
Utility Proposes Supplier-Specific Discount Rates For POR
Retail electric suppliers currently serving, or seeking to serve, customers at…
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October 3, 2024
Don't Want Retail Supplier Industry To Go "Belly Up", Commissioner Says No Path Forward, Commissioner Observes, As PSC To Seek More Technical Info From Utilities
Several Commissioners of the Maryland PSC expressed concern during a hearing yesterday about the viability of residential energy choice if the PSC adopts a dual billing mandate…
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October 1, 2024
REAL Alleges "Speech Code" Under SB1 Violates First Amendment, & That Law Cannot Be Severed To Save Other Provisions
Maryland's recently enacted SB 1 imposes an impermissible "speech code" on retail energy suppliers in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and the state must be enjoined from enforcing all provisions of the law, the Retail Energy Advancement League and Green Mountain Energy Company (plaintiffs) alleged in a federal lawsuit filed this morning
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September 30, 2024
All of the Maryland investor-owned electric utilities opposed the use of a pro rata mechanism for utility consolidated billing upon the end of purchase of receivables
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September 25, 2024
A PSC has rejected, at three utilities, proposed modifications to…
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September 19, 2024
An EDC has filed a proposed update to its residential purchase of receivables discount rate meant to
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September 17, 2024
A PSC has scheduled for
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September 13, 2024
Mandatory Dual Billing For Other Contracts
Retail energy suppliers would be permitted to continue using utility consolidated billing with purchase of receivables until…
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September 13, 2024
OCA: 99% Of Shopping Customers Had Rates Exceeding Price To Compare; 86% Paying 2x PTC POR Discount Rates Updated
The Pennsylvania PUC has resolved a rate case proceeding without adopting a proposed on-bill comparison of retail supplier costs and shadow-billed default service costs for shopping customers on utility consolidated billing
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September 10, 2024
January 1, 2025 is not "definitively" the date certain for the end of residential purchase of receivables in…
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September 6, 2024
A further revision to…
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September 4, 2024
Several retail suppliers said that nearly all residential shopping customers in…
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September 3, 2024
Interim POR Discounts >10% Proposed At Multiple Utilities
Two Pennsylvania PUC ALJs have endorsed a contested settlement in…
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August 30, 2024
Utility Says Further Decisions Required From PSC On Next Steps In Light Of Order Ending POR
A 12% residential purchase of receivables (POR) discount rate would be needed…
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August 29, 2024
An EDC has proposed a significant reduction to its residential purchase of receivables discount rate
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August 27, 2024
A PSC has ordered the termination of the purchase of receivables
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August 26, 2024
The joint New York utilities told the New York PSC that…
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August 26, 2024
Staff of a PSC have issued an interrogatory to
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August 22, 2024
A PUC has approved the design of a purchase of receivables program at…
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August 16, 2024
An EDC has filed a revised residential purchase of receivables discount rate using inputs as directed by a PSC
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August 16, 2024
A PUC approved the key elements for the design of a new purchase of receivable program at
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