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April 12, 2019
During the National Energy Marketers Association's 22nd Annual National Energy Restructuring Conference, Dan Mumford, Director, Office of Competitive Market Oversight, at the Pennsylvania PUC said that the current thinking at the PUC is that the days of having a single long list of all supplier…
April 8, 2019
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CEHE) has filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas an electric base rate case
April 4, 2019
Medium C&I Rate Falling Nearly 20%
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new default service supply rates for the period beginning June 1, 2019
March 27, 2019
Complaints Against Suppliers Down 32%
The Connecticut PURA released its Annual Report To The Legislature - State Of Electric Competition for the year 2018
March 21, 2019
During a California legislative hearing this week, California PUC President Michael Picker made comments in favor of the creation of a website that would allow the comparison of prices among various LSEs in the state, with such comments suggesting that the reporting of such prices be mandatory
March 11, 2019
The Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General (AGO) said in comments to the DPU that the AG has analyzed an additional year (July 2017 – June 2018) of data and found that, in this third year, Massachusetts residential customers on competitive supply suffered consumer losses of $76.2 million…
March 6, 2019
In prepared written remarks before a hearing of the U.S. Senate's Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Joseph Kelliher, Executive Vice President of NextEra Energy, Inc. and former FERC Chair, said that, "In many states, retail competition has been a failure, at least for residential customers…
March 5, 2019
A group named Floridians for Affordable Reliable Energy (FARE) recently launched an effort opposing the proposed electric choice ballot initiative in Florida, as FARE said that it would, "set the record straight on the dangers of deregulation."
March 1, 2019
Direct Energy in a petition to intervene, outlined concerns with certain proposed changes to the natural gas transportation program at UGI Utilities (the "Company"), as contained in a newly filed rate case
February 28, 2019
The Pennsylvania PUC today issued a proposed policy statement to implement, on a statewide basis, a price cap on retail supplier service to Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers
February 27, 2019
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel has filed testimony in which OCC says that, from October 2016 through September 2018, hardship customers on competitive retail supply paid $7.2 million more than they would have under default service, as OCC said that retail suppliers should be prohibited…
February 19, 2019
ROSE Seeks Cap On REP Fees, Standardization
Texas Ratepayers Organization to Save Energy (ROSE) released a report on fees charged by retail electric providers in the Texas market, stating that, "[s]ome of the reviewed REP fees appear to violate state law."
February 6, 2019
A bill (H.B. No. 1408) has been filed with the Texas legislature which would require the termination of the listing of retail electric offers on the state's Power to Choose website
February 4, 2019
The Michigan PSC released its 2018 report on retail electric choice
February 4, 2019
Connecticut Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, AARP and other consumer advocates today called on Connecticut lawmakers to end residential electric choice, which AARP said, "economically harms consumers."
February 1, 2019
As part of its newly filed electric rate case, Consolidated Edison (ConEd, or Company) detailed its reduction in administrative costs related to its supply function, and sought a new charge to recover supply costs previously reflected in bidders' rates, associated with the utility's transition to an…
January 22, 2019
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) today released an analysis which it said, "calls into question recent reports by the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC) and The Abell Foundation."
January 18, 2019
The Pennsylvania PUC has denied rehearing requests of a December 2018 order in which, as part of Columbia Gas's rate case, the PUC found that Columbia's practice of providing "on-bill" billing for non-utility services to only two select providers is, "discriminatory."
January 10, 2019
TEAM Proposes New Complaint Scoring Mechanism, Mapping Complaints Against Market Mean
In comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas in a new project reviewing the Power to Choose site, the Texas Energy Association For Marketers recommended that the site list the Annual Estimated Average Price for retail plans listed on the site
January 4, 2019
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a new default service supply rate for the Medium Commercial & Industrial customer class (25-300 kW, Rate Schedules GS/GM and GMH) for the three-month period beginning March 1, 2019
January 2, 2019
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas will hold a workshop seeking input from Retail Electric Providers (REPs) and interested parties regarding the Power to Choose website and the methodology of the complaint scorecard.
December 26, 2018
A report published by The Abell Foundation said that, "from 2014 to 2017, Maryland households have been paying tens of millions of dollars more per year in aggregate to third-party electricity suppliers -- about $255 million more in all than if they had stayed with their utility’s supply offer."
December 12, 2018
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Justin Olson has filed a memo in an ACC proceeding reviewing electric choice, stating that, "simple deregulation is a nonstarter," due to the ACC's duty under the state's constitution, but that a framework of, "regulated competition," would be within the ACC's…
December 6, 2018
Committee Report Says Capacity Markets "Certainly" Prop Up, "Older, More Inefficient," Power Plants At "Inordinately Burdensome" Cost
November 27, 2018
The East Ohio Gas Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Ohio (DEO) filed comments with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio opposing the Ohio Consumers' Counsel proposal to require all large utilities to use a wholesale auction (except where an SCO auction is already authorized), rather than a Gas Cost…
