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October 30, 2014
Danger: Suit Says Utility Rates An "Accurate Reflection" of "Prevailing Market Conditions"
A lawsuit, seeking class action status, has been filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, against North American Power & Gas, LLC, and the sole allegation in the suit is that because North American Power's rates exceeded Commonwealth Edison's…
October 22, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC announced that additional functionality has been added to the PA Power Switch website.
October 22, 2014
PECO has posted to its website updated Prices to Compare for the period to begin December 1.
October 7, 2014
Online energy shopping portal Point Click Switch announced that it is now offering customers the opportunity to receive rate comparisons by submitting a picture of their bill to the site.
September 19, 2014
Realgy, LLC has begun listing residential electricity offers on PlugIn Illinois.
September 12, 2014
The Michigan PSC issued an order establishing a natural gas rate comparison website, and retail natural gas suppliers will be required to post pricing on the site.
August 22, 2014
The New York PSC has delayed, for all utilities, the deadline for implementing online bill calculators comparing ESCO and default service prices, for residential and small non-residential customers
August 13, 2014
Green Mountain Energy has earned the top spot from Texas customers in J.D. Power's 2014 Retail Electric Provider Residential Customer Satisfaction Study.
August 11, 2014
Star Energy Partners has begun offering electric service at the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities -- Toledo Edison, Ohio Edison, and Cleveland Electric Illuminating
August 8, 2014
Several New York utilities have sought extensions from New York PSC of the deadline for implementation of online historical bill calculators, which are to allow shopping customers to compare actual ESCO costs to shadow-billed default service costs, for both residential and small commercial customers…
August 5, 2014
Integrys Energy Services has begun offering on PA Power Switch residential electric service at PECO, PPL, and Duquesne Light
July 24, 2014
Michigan's to-be-developed natural gas choice comparison website should be promoted by alternative natural gas suppliers on certain pre-enrollment marketing materials, and should not include historic supplier price data, according to "primary" recommendations from Michigan PSC Staff.
July 23, 2014
PECO has published official electric Prices to Compare for the three-month period beginning September 1, with the residential PTC declining again, but the commercial PTCs generally increasing.
July 7, 2014
The Massachusetts DPU has approved 10 new electric opt-out municipal aggregation programs, and has extended a pricing benchmark to additional customer classes.
June 30, 2014
The New Hampshire PUC has approved an increase in Public Service Company of New Hampshire's default service rate, effective July 1.
June 26, 2014
Expecting questions about the recently modified electricity agreement negotiated by the City of Chicago and Integrys Energy Services, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) and the City released a free calculator to help 700,000 households better understand their rates under the municipal aggregation…
June 25, 2014
Capital Energy Ohio has begun posting residential electric offers on the PUCO Apples to Apples chart.
June 12, 2014
Source Power & Gas has expanded its Ohio electric service to include service at AEP Ohio and Dayton Power & Light.
June 4, 2014
Last week, the Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted an update to its code of conduct rules governing utilities and competitive affiliates which did not contain any major changes to the existing provisions as sought by certain retail electric providers (such as a blanket prohibition on shared…
June 3, 2014
ENH Power has begun offering electric service at New Hampshire Electric Cooperative.
May 20, 2014
Duquesne Light has posted official Prices to Compare for the six-month period starting June 1, with a 22% increase in the residential Rate RS Price to Compare confirmed
May 14, 2014
The Illinois Citizens Utility Board warned customers, "about getting scared into bad deals" in light of headlines regarding a 40% increase in the ComEd default service rate on June 1.
May 13, 2014
Direct Energy announced that it is adding a price protection feature to its current residential electric variable rates in each Massachusetts utility service area in which the company operates.
May 13, 2014
SFE Energy has begun offering electricity supply in Maryland.
May 7, 2014
Commonwealth Edison's residential Price to Compare is set to jump nearly 40% on June 1.
