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March 30, 2018
Mass. AG Study: Economics Suggest Retail Supply Market "Will Always Fail" Individual Residential Customers Due To No-Mark-Up Default Service, Suppliers' Marketing Costs
March 29, 2018
Mass. AG Study: Economics Suggest Retail Supply Market "Will Always Fail" Individual Residential Customers Due To No-Mark-Up Default Service, Suppliers' Marketing Costs
March 22, 2018
National Grid has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for residential and commercial customers for the six-month period beginning May 1, 2018, and for industrial customers, for the three-month period beginning May 1, 2018
February 23, 2018
XOOM Energy, LLC through its family of retail suppliers (XOOM Energy) announced further expansion of their energy product offerings to residential customers with the launch of their "SteadyLock" flat bill plan for electricity and natural gas.
February 22, 2018
Public Service Electric and Gas Company announced that it is extending a credit to basic gas supply service customers to March
January 2, 2018
Company's Goal Is To, "End Aggressive Door-To-Door Sales Tactics"
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted EnPowered USA Inc. a retail electric supplier license as a power marketer and aggregator to serve all customer classes in all service areas
December 28, 2017
The New Hampshire PUC has approved a default energy service rate at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) for the three-month period January through March 2018
December 14, 2017
Exploring Whether To Become Retail Provider Itself In Texas
Arcadia Power has formally rolled out its price alerts service, which monitors residential retail supplier offers in states with energy choice and automatically switches residential customers to plans which provide savings
December 1, 2017
"That's All That Staff's Got" In Push To End Choice, Witness Says
A "flawed" comparison of ex post revenues from default service customers versus ESCO customers, submitted by Staff of the New York Department of Public Service, is, "all that Staff's got," in Staff's push to largely end retail choice in the mass market (except for a limited set of products or…
November 7, 2017
Staff of the New York Department of Public Service (DPS) said in a letter responding to a request from various ESCOs to initiate settlement discussions in the PSC's evidentiary review of the ESCO mass market that such discussions would be an inappropriate delay in the case unless and until ESCOs…
October 25, 2017
Worried Experience At Other LDC, Where Supply Prices Distorted, Could Be Repeated
Changes to Niagara Mohawk's capacity release program, proposed by New York PSC Staff in a rate case, could result in inequitable treatment of ESCOs depending on how slice-of-system changes are implemented, Mirabito Natural Gas, LLC said in comments filed with the PSC
October 20, 2017
The Massachusetts DPU adopted, as proposed, changes in the rule applicable to the state's retail electricity rate board and shopping website
October 19, 2017
The PSC adopted the draft orders discussed below without modification with respect to Just Energy New York Corporation, National Fuel Resources, Inc., and Zone One Energy, LLC, granting these ESCOs a waiver to serve APP customers with a GSP product under the terms described below
October 17, 2017
Electricity Ratings, LLC has officially launched PAEnergyRatings.com which provides electricity prices, customer ratings and reviews of retail suppliers, and other information for electricity shopping
September 20, 2017
Electricity Ratings, LLC has launched OHEnergyRatings.com to provide customer ratings, and prices and offers, of retail electricity providers in Ohio.
September 19, 2017
ESCOs have saved New Yorkers, across all customer classes, over $10 billion over the last 16 years, the National Energy Marketers Association said in testimony in the New York PSC's evidentiary review of the retail energy mass markets
September 19, 2017
New York's current market structure favors utilities over ESCOs and direct customers, and any prohibition on mass market sales by ESCOs is premature until such inequities are fixed, the New York State Office of General Services (OGS) said in testimony in the New York PSC's evidentiary review of the…
September 18, 2017
AG, UIU Seek Mandatory Standard Contract For All Mass Market ESCO Sales
The New York Attorney General and New York Utility Intervention Unit filed joint testimony in the New York PSC's retail energy mass market review proceeding seeking an "immediate" prohibition on ESCO service to mass market customers
September 18, 2017
Direct Energy Cites Errors In Utility Data Relied Upon For ESCO-Default Service Comparisons
In testimony in the New York PSC's evidentiary review of the retail energy mass markets, Direct Energy presented an analysis showing that New Yorkers could have saved $18 billion by shopping for an ESCO from 2011-2016
August 30, 2017
As part of a wider investigation into energy service companies, New York Attorney General (AG) Eric Schneiderman today announced an $800,000 settlement with Energy Plus Holdings LLC and Energy Plus Natural Gas LLC (collectively, "Energy Plus").
August 25, 2017
The Retail Energy Supply Association issued an analysis finding that many competitive retail electric supply offers listed on the state's Empower RI website are priced below the 53% National Grid default service rate hike which will take effect in October
August 25, 2017
The Connecticut PURA is prepared to go-live with a new process under which retail electric suppliers may directly post prices to the EnergizeCT.com Rate Board.
August 21, 2017
Proposes Other Changes To Retail Shopping Website
The Massachusetts DPU has issued for comment several proposed changes to the DPU's retail electricity shopping website and rate board, and in doing so noted that it has changed the default view of offers listed on the site (Energy Switch Massachusetts).
August 16, 2017
RESA: Many Competitive Electricity Offers Available Below The Cost Of Utility Standard Service Rate
An analysis of Connecticut’s competitive electricity market shows many competitive offers below the cost of utility service, and if all Connecticut electricity consumers taking utility standard rate service switched to these lowest available competitive offers, the potential savings are more than…
August 11, 2017
In a fact sheet concerning the benefits Pennsylvania has seen from retail choice, the Retail Energy Supply Association reported that, looking at offers available on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s electricity shopping comparison website as of the end of July 2017, "there was the…
