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December 3, 2025
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…
October 31, 2025
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 15, 2025
In a change to an earlier proposed annual update, Staff of the Maryland PSC have revised the proposed price cap for green retail electricity plans, though the proposed change is de minimis
September 16, 2025
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 4, 2025
Maryland PSC Staff have requested that the PSC initiate the annual proceeding to determine the price at which retail electric suppliers may offer green power to residential customers
August 5, 2025
The Connecticut PURA has sought, from working group members, comment on a proposal from the Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) concerning how hardship customers should be served in the retail electric market
June 17, 2025
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut PURA has developed draft language which would require that retail electric suppliers must continue to serve hardship customers, under a capped, lower rate, when the customer's original contract rate exceeds the default…
May 30, 2025
NOCO Electric, LLC and NOCO Natural Gas, LLC (together, NOCO) sought from the New York PSC a declaratory ruling finding that NOCO’s smart monitoring product (the SMT Product) qualifies as an energy-related value-added product or service (ERVAS) which is not subject to the mass market price caps, or…
May 8, 2025
Staff of the Massachusetts DPU recently presented a revised proposal to protect retail energy customers under contract renewals
April 22, 2025
The Connecticut PURA has further extended the deadline for PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) to propose recommended language changes to retail electric supplier contracts in light of statutory authority under which PURA may determine the "appropriate limitations" with which…
March 13, 2025
The Maryland PSC today issued an order on the application and related issues concerning the new residential retail energy price caps. All provisions in this story apply to residential service only.
January 24, 2025
In separate petitions, both retail energy suppliers and the Maryland Office of People's Counsel have sought clarification of the Maryland PSC's recent order establishing a price cap, and related requirements, for green power offers in Maryland (Case 9757)
January 10, 2025
The Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut PURA has urged…
December 30, 2024
A PSC adopted the residential green power price cap as the…
December 20, 2024
Staff of a PSC have proposed how to apply the state's new price cap applicable to residential retail energy offers
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
December 11, 2024
Retail energy suppliers need to be "a little patient" as the PSC works to implement…
December 9, 2024
Retail energy contracts that do not have an expiration date are subject to SB1, including the new law's price cap for residential customers, Maryland PSC Staff said in comments to the Commission
December 6, 2024
PSC Staff Propose More Restrictive Price Cap For Retail Supplier Green Power
An inconsistency in Maryland's SB1 may be read as prohibiting retail electric suppliers from offering green power sourced from any state other than Maryland
December 4, 2024
A PSC has scheduled for December 11, 2024 a hearing concerning the establishment of a maximum green power product price for each service area
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
November 21, 2024
As part of a previously reported investigation, a retail energy regulator has sought further stakeholder comments on any limitations which should be imposed on service from retail electric suppliers to…
November 21, 2024
The Maryland PSC has invited stakeholders to file proposed specific green power prices (the actual rates, not just the rate calculation mechanisms) that shall serve as the PSC-set price cap for retail supplier green power offers starting January 1, 2025
November 20, 2024
With the effective date for retail energy price caps in Maryland less than 6 weeks away, retail energy suppliers have sought clarification from the Maryland PSC on two issues
October 1, 2024
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
