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January 26, 2021
NY Round-Up: On-Bill Rate Comparisons, Material Changes, CCA Price Cap
A bill, A01382, has been introduced in the New York Assembly, which, according to its summary, would, "ban[] non-state run energy services companies," or ESCOs
January 4, 2021
A Texas bill, SB 182, has been authored and introduced by Sen. Charles Schwertner which would require municipal electric utilities to transition to customer choice based upon the findings of a rate comparison required to be conducted by the Texas PUC
October 28, 2020
Opt-Out Notice Now Compares Rates To ESCO Rate
Effective January 1, 2021, Westchester Power has selected Constellation NewEnergy to serve the 23 communities in the Con Edison utility territory of its opt-out municipal aggregation
October 27, 2020
Revised rules governing the Massachusetts DPU's Energy Switch MA electricity shopping website will take effect on November 3, 2020, a hearing examiner notified stakeholders
October 12, 2020
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas filed a draft scope of electric competition report for the 87th Legislature
September 30, 2020
The Illinois Citizens Utility Board (CUB) alerted Ameren and ComEd electric customers to a change in the utilities' electricity supply prices.
September 30, 2020
The Maryland Public Service Commission has officially unveiled its new website for natural gas supply (MDGasChoice.com), to supplement the electricity shopping site unveiled earlier this year.
September 17, 2020
The District of Columbia PSC granted in part a motion filed by the D.C. Office of People's Counsel to compel Washington Gas Light to provide to OPC various billing data to assist OPC in its evaluation of the retail market and comparison of default service rates with rates by customers served by…
August 25, 2020
WattBuy, which describes itself as, "an energy intelligence service that empowers real estate companies, homeowners, and renters by providing comprehensive data on electricity usage and costs," announced that it, "has launched the first tool that estimates the electricity cost and carbon footprint…
August 7, 2020
Directs Retail Suppliers To Begin Uploading Offers
Pursuant to § 7-604.1 of the Public Utilities Article, Annotated Code of Maryland (PUA), the Maryland Public Service Commission is required to maintain a secure portal on its website to receive information about open offers to supply natural gas from natural gas suppliers.
July 23, 2020
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel reported that low-income residential customers who are served by a competitive retail electric supplier at the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) paid, on average, about $20,000 more in aggregate than what they would have paid under SOS, in each of…
July 20, 2020
The Massachusetts electric and natural gas utilities have reported "incremental" supply costs paid by low-income customers on competitive supply versus basic service, as well as the impact on the Residential Assistance Adjustment Factors (RAAF)
July 7, 2020
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Sandra Kennedy wrote a letter to Commissioner Justin Olson in which Kennedy criticized Olson's introduction of retail choice as a potential solution to the various rate plan and education issues facing customers at Arizona Public Service
July 1, 2020
The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia has formally launched its DC Power Connect website and campaign to educate District energy consumers about the power to choose their electricity supplier: dcpowerconnect.com
June 26, 2020
Family Energy, Inc. has sought a further extension of the compliance deadlines in the New York PSC's December 12, 2019 retail energy market reset order
May 21, 2020
Commonwealth Edison has filed updated new electric supply rates, known as Purchased Electricity Charges (PECs), for the period beginning June 1, 2020, as well as new bypassable transmission charges (PJM Services Charges, PSC)
May 20, 2020
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied a request from the Ohio Consumers' Counsel to revise PUCO's Apples to Apples shopping site, to warn customers about potential exposure to higher costs due to switching to a retail supplier, and denied OCC's request to cease the provision of utility…
May 15, 2020
CenterPoint Energy's myTrueCost Texas electricity shopping portal will be discontinued effective May 25, 2020, according to an email notice sent to the site's users.
May 14, 2020
Given the economic pressures on customers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel said that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio should incorporate in its choice education materials the "bitter reality" that a "dwindling" number of offers from competitive retail…
May 12, 2020
NV Energy has proposed a "Customer Price Stability Tariff" which the company said will, "significantly mitigate," the likelihood that large customers will choose an alternative supplier
May 1, 2020
PPL Electric has posted on its website new electric Prices to Compare for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2020
March 25, 2020
Mean Billed Rates Exceed 13¢ For Some Suppliers
Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating have filed responses to an interrogatory in a Connecticut PURA proceeding concerning potential changes to the purchase of receivables mechanism, including the highest and average rates billed by retail electric suppliers
March 11, 2020
WattBuy, which among other things operates an electricity shopping website (background here) , and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced a new project to automatically collect and make public a searchable database of all electricity rates in the U.S.
March 9, 2020
The Maryland Public Service Commission has unveiled a new electricity shopping website with enhanced functionality and features -- MDElectricChoice.com -- listing offers from retail electric suppliers
March 5, 2020
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel published an analysis of retail electricity supplier customers who remain on legacy variable rates, stating that variable rate customers, who represent less than 10% of customers on competitive supply at Connecticut Light & Power, account for nearly 50% of…
