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June 7, 2016
The introduction of a reference benchmark price to which all mass market ESCO fixed rates would be subject create a market where ESCOs are forced to focus on, "jockeying around an administratively set benchmark," for a commodity-only product, rather than creating energy-related value-added products…
June 2, 2016
The Connecticut PURA has issued a letter to retail suppliers clarifying that suppliers need not make a monthly price filing of their generally available mass market offers to the rate board if their offers have not changed
May 19, 2016
A review by the Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) finds nearly 30 competitive retail energy suppliers in Massachusetts actively posting more than 200 different product offerings, "at prices highly competitive with default rates offered by the state’s utility companies."
May 19, 2016
The Connecticut PURA issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty to Choice Energy, LLC in the amount of $300,000 related to guaranteed savings provisions previously in Choice Energy, LLC's contracts
May 17, 2016
Ameren has posted its Retail Purchased Electricity Charges for the period beginning June 1, 2016
May 10, 2016
Public Service of New Hampshire (Eversource) has forecast a nearly 10% increase in its energy service (default service) rate starting July 1, 2016
May 5, 2016
Staff of the New York PSC have issued a whitepaper that would establish a formula for determining an appropriate not to exceed benchmark "reference price" for a 12-month fixed price offering, thereby allowing ESCOs, contingent on a further PSC order, to offer such a product as an additional…
May 2, 2016
PPL Electric's Price to Compare for residential customers will decrease about 6%, and its PTC for small business customers will decrease 14%, on June 1.
April 28, 2016
Under the auspices of the Public Utility Regulatory Authority, the State of Connecticut has established EnergizeCT, a robust, well-designed and consumer-friendly electricity shopping website that routinely posts competitive generation supply products offered by licensed retail electricity suppliers…
April 26, 2016
Consumer advocates sought to redefine the definition of a fixed price product, and to create a voluntary standard electricity offer, in making recommendations concerning the Texas Power to Choose site
April 26, 2016
The offer-based shopping function on the Texas Power to Choose site distorts the market, TXU Energy said in comments to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, while Direct Energy said that the shopping function encourages bad behavior and stifles innovation, and both REPs recommended, in separately…
April 25, 2016
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) recently reviewed current electricity prices publicly available to consumers in Connecticut and found that if all residential customers on utility standard service today had switched to the lowest competitive offers provided at the beginning of the…
April 21, 2016
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel said yesterday that, "[d]ata submitted to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority ('PURA') shows that in 2015, Connecticut residential customers of retail electric suppliers paid, in aggregate, approximately $58 million over what they would have paid if…
April 21, 2016
The Office of Public Utility Counsel has suggested that the Texas Power to Choose website could sort offers based on a retail electric provider's complaint score
March 21, 2016
National Grid fixed basic service rates for Massachusetts residential and commercial electric customers will fall to, or below, 8¢/kWh starting in May, under rates filed with the DPU.
March 17, 2016
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have issued in Project 45730 a request for comments concerning the Power to Choose website, including changes to the computation of the Electricity Facts Label average pricing, and potential elimination of the shopping component on the Power to Choose…
March 7, 2016
New York State Senator John DeFrancisco, Deputy Majority Leader, called the New York PSC's February 23 "full stop" retail market order, "anti-competitive" in a March 3 letter which had sought at least a 60-day postponement of the order's effective date
March 3, 2016
Retail suppliers have appealed a ruling from the New York PSC Records Access Officer (RAO) in which the RAO denied confidential treatment of residential historic pricing that ESCOs have been required to file with the PSC since early 2014.
February 12, 2016
The Public Utility Commission of Texas is facing an existential crisis with the price comparison listing on its Power to Choose electricity shopping site as retail electric providers adjust how their products are priced to appear as the lowest quoted offer, even when such quote, although in…
February 11, 2016
Energy comparison site Zonesty.com named Michael Dean as Chief Technology Officer
February 9, 2016
Mint Energy announced that it has launched a new component of its sales strategy, with the introduction of offers to smaller commercial and industrial customers made via its website, with online enrollments starting yesterday
February 2, 2016
The New York PSC Records Access Office has denied confidential treatment for residential historic pricing that ESCOs have been required to file with the PSC since early 2014.
January 28, 2016
The Rhode Island PUC has launched an electricity shopping website and rate board, Empower RI ri.gov/empowerri
January 12, 2016
New York ESCOs claimed that releasing average residential pricing data of ESCOs by New York ISO Zone and utility service area would allow competitors to determine their margin and hedging strategy, harming the competitive market
December 17, 2015
Choose Energy is beta testing an "All-in Bill" calculator under which a customer can input their last month's bill total into the tool, and from that, Choose Energy will then be able to estimate what the supply portion, as well as the total electricity bill, would be with each of the retail plans…
