March 4, 2021
Bill Would Ban Auto-Renewal Of Retail Energy Contracts; Prohibit Termination Fees Bill Would Provide That Individual Contractors Of Supplier Vendors Are Legal Agents Of Suppliers
Broad Interpretation Of Language Could Be Read As Giving Regulator Ability To Cap All Retail Electric Supplier Rates (Not Just Low-Income Rates)
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February 15, 2021
ERCOT issued a market notice (M-C021521-01) the evening of Feb. 15 explaining how ERCOT intends to implement certain directives under the PUC's order reported in our earlier story below
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February 3, 2021
The New York Retail Choice Coalition (the 'Coalition' or 'NYRCC'), requested from the New York PSC a seventy-five (75) day extension of the implementation date of the PSC's retail market reset order, including the previously reported pricing limitations under such order
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January 28, 2021
Atlantic Energy, LLC petitioned the New York PSC for a partial waiver of the Commission’s retail market reset order to continue offering its long-standing energy efficient LED lighting products and services to small commercial customers without being subject to the reset order's price caps or…
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January 25, 2021
Written Order Reveals ESCOs Receiving Approval To Offer Home Warranty Bundle PSC Will No Longer Require Formal Waiver Petition For ESCOs To Offer Home Warranty Product, Delegates To Staff Review
The New York PSC issued a written order regarding ESCOs' petitions to offer green natural gas products and home warranty bundles, which includes specific conditions which ESCOs must meet in order to continue serving green gas customers for a limited one-year period while the PSC further studies the…
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January 15, 2021
After reviewing Zone One Energy LLC's updated ESCO Retail Access Application Package filed in response to the PSC's retail market reset order (which included product limits for mass market service), New York Department Of Public Service Staff have determined Zone One Energy's filing to be in…
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December 11, 2020
The Brooklyn Union Gas Company, d/b/a National Grid NY (KEDNY), and KeySpan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid (KEDLI), each filed with the New York PSC an errata to each LDC's December 31, 2019 twelve-month trailing average supply rates, which were originally filed on January 29, 2020 (for…
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November 30, 2020
Ohio Power Company d/b/a AEP Ohio filed at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to modify its Alternative Energy Rider (AER) and Auction Cost Recovery Rider (ACRR) to recover, on a bypassable basis, an oversupply of RECs, in light of the wind-down of the state's renewable energy mandate, while…
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September 18, 2020
Clarifies Use Of 12-Month Average Utility Supply Rate For ESCO Price Limit Broadly Denies Rehearing Sought By ESCOs
The New York PSC issued an order on rehearing and clarification concerning its December 2019 retail energy market reset order which denied all rehearing requests, but did grant several clarifications
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June 30, 2020
TXU Energy announced the launch of a new Texas residential electricity plan: TXU Energy AutoSaver
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June 26, 2020
The New York Department of State’s Utility Intervention Unit (UIU) and the Office of the New York State Attorney General (NYAG) filed comments with the New York PSC opposing various petitions for declaratory ruling and/or waivers filed by ESCOs, who are seeking authorization to offer various green…
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June 16, 2020
Citing, in part, Consolidated Edison's recent action to defer certain electricity default service capacity supply costs for future recovery, the National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) petitioned the New York PSC for a further extension and reconsideration of the Commission’s December 12, 2019…
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May 5, 2020
Citing Coronavirus Emergency, OCC Says No Worse Time To Allow Supplier To Continue Operating
The Ohio Consumers' Counsel filed comments at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio opposing the electric and gas license renewal applications of Verde Energy, and sought several conditions on the licenses if they are granted
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February 26, 2020
Current Small Customers Of Retail Suppliers Under Monthly Variable Assignment Program Will Be Transferred Back To Utility-Procured Standard Offer
For Larger Customers Assigned Under Monthly Rate Program, Customers Will Now Be Re-assigned Every 12 Months
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February 18, 2020
Pike County Light & Power Company has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC electric default service rates for the three-month period beginning March 1, 2020
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February 7, 2020
Tables Bill Banning Door-to-Door Electricity Marketing, For Further Development Work Session Includes Suggestion To License "People At The Door" PUC Oversight Of Retail Supplier Rates, Capping At SOS Also Considered
Maine's joint Committee On Energy, Utilities and Technology yesterday voted 8-1 to recommend "ought not to pass" LD 1917, a bill which would completely prohibit residential electric choice, and place all residential customers on Standard Offer service, no later than January 1, 2022
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February 6, 2020
Current Small Customers Of Retail Suppliers Under Monthly Variable Assignment Program Would Be Transferred Back To Utility-Procured Standard Offer
For Larger Customers Assigned Under Monthly Rate Program, Customers Would Be Re-assigned Every 12 Months
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February 3, 2020
Consolidated Edison has filed revisions to correct its previously filed 12-month trailing average utility supply rates, which are to be used as a price cap for certain ESCO offers, due to an "inadvertent computational error" reflected in several of the originally filed rates
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January 23, 2020
Several Michigan electric utilities have filed their final 10% choice cap for 2020
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January 20, 2020
The Secretary of the New York PSC granted the joint utilities an extension of the deadline for the utilities to develop 12-month trailing average utility supply rates, which will be used as the basis for an ESCO price cap under one of the compliance products under the PSC's retail market reset order
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January 16, 2020
NRG Says It Will Submit Petition For PSC To Approve A Natural Gas Carbon Offset Product As One Of The Products Allowed Under The Order
The NRG Energy retail suppliers have submitted a request with the New York PSC for a ninety (90) day extension from several of the February 10, 2020 compliance deadlines set forth in the Public Service Commission’s retail energy market 'reset' order, adopted on December 12, 2019
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January 14, 2020
RESA: Implementation Of Order "Will Lead To Chaos In The Marketplace" Clarification Sought On Whether Affirmative Consent Required Every Month For Compliant Variable Rate Product, As Suggested By New UBP
Various individual ESCOs and retail supplier parties, including the Retail Energy Supply Association and National Energy Marketers Association, filed for rehearing, reconsideration and/or clarification of the New York PSC's December ESCO 'reset' order, as various ESCO parties sought a stay of the…
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January 14, 2020
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, The Brooklyn Union Gas Company d/b/a National Grid NY, KeySpan Gas East Corporation d/b/a National Grid, and Niagara Mohawk…
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December 12, 2019
PSC Allows Auto-Renewal Only Onto Guaranteed Savings Contract ESCOs Prohibited From Offering One-Time Promotional Items As Inducement For Customer Enrollment
ESCOs Prohibited From Offering One-Time Promotional Items As Inducement For Customer Enrollment
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December 12, 2019
PSC Allows Auto-Renewal Only Onto Guaranteed Savings Contract ESCOs Prohibited From Offering One-Time Promotional Items As Inducement For Customer Enrollment
New York PSC Imposes Price Caps On Fixed, Variable ESCO Products, In "Reset" Order
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