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July 28, 2025
PowerSetter, an online marketplace for retail energy plans that also integrates community solar offers after retail energy plan selection, announced last month that it has surpassed 350,000 customers.
June 5, 2025
Across All MA Retail Suppliers, Residential Savings Were $600 Million In 2023, Study Says
NRG Energy said that a new analysis shows that its Massachusetts residential retail electric customers collectively saved $167 million in 2023 and 2024.
June 4, 2025
Retail Supplier Rate Lower Than 1996 Utility Rates On Inflation-Adjusted Basis At All 7 Large EDCs
The average lowest fixed price retail electric supplier residential offer in Pennsylvania during 2024 was cheaper than the 1996 monopoly utility supply rates at three Pennsylvania utilities without even accounting for inflation, while such supplier rate was cheaper than the 1996 monopoly supply…
April 30, 2025
Would Also Require Itemized List Of ESCO Costs
New York bill S3876 has passed the Assembly after having been passed by the Senate
April 4, 2025
Would Also Require Itemized List Of ESCO Costs
New York bill S3876 has been ordered to third reading in the Assembly, after having been passed by the Senate
March 31, 2025
The Connecticut PURA adopted, without substantive modification from an earlier draft, an annual report to lawmakers concerning the state of electric competition
March 24, 2025
In testimony in the rate case of the FirstEnergy Ohio electric utilities, IGS Energy and the Retail Energy Supply Association sought, among other things, elimination of the $5 switching fee
March 21, 2025
A draft Connecticut PURA annual report to lawmakers concerning the state of electric competition is proposed to once again include a comparison of retail supplier rates and default service rates -- after omitting the customary data in last year's report
February 13, 2025
REC-Only Contracts May Not "Yield" Rate Exceeding Default Service For Hardship Customers (Essentially Would Ban Non-shopping Hardship Customers From REC Contracts)
February 4, 2025
A retail electric supplier in Massachusetts charged residential customers an average rate of 51¢ per kWh for the period July 2023 to June 2024, the Massachusetts Attorney General (AG or AGO) said in an updated report on costs under competitive retail electric supply versus default service
January 16, 2025
Several Maryland utilities have posted the average rate charged by each retail electric supplier
January 1, 2025
Nearly 40% of residential customers in the standard offer customer referral program (SOP) at…
December 17, 2024
Fixed Offers From 11 Retail Suppliers Still Below New, Lower National Grid SOS Rate
National Grid's residential electric default service rate is set to fall by…
December 10, 2024
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) released its 2023 energy trend report based on the latest U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data which RESA said shows that…
December 2, 2024
PUC Encourages Customers To Use PUC Websites As "Benchmark" Against Retail Suppliers' Marketing
The Pennsylvania PUC on Cyber Monday warned customers about "copycat" energy shopping websites that mimic the look and presentation of the PUC's "unbiased" PAPowerSwitch.com
November 26, 2024
A Texas ALJ has further affirmed that Texas retail electric providers must receive…
November 22, 2024
The Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate requested that the PUC "clarify" the PUC's findings with respect to EGS costs which exceed default service costs
November 20, 2024
NOPEC (Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council) said that an updated study from researchers at Cleveland State University shows that electricity deregulation saved Ohio customers nearly…
November 15, 2024
Several Retail Supplier Residential Offers Already Beat New SOS Rate
NSTAR d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Eastern Massachusetts service territory, for the period beginning February 1, 2025
November 12, 2024
Default service electric rates for mass market customers in the western part of Nstar's territory in Massachusetts will fall by about…
October 9, 2024
Residential "green power" offers from retail electric suppliers in
August 15, 2024
The Texas PUC is including as part of its budget…
August 9, 2024
A utility alleged that…
July 23, 2024
A PSC has begun implementing the price cap applicable to…
July 23, 2024
ComEd Residential Market Becomes Moderately Concentrated As Largest Suppliers Gain Market Share
Residential customers on competitive retail supply at Commonwealth Edison in Illinois paid, on average, about…
