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February 26, 2020
During an Arizona Corporation Commission workshop on its investigation of retail electric choice, ACC Utilities Division Staff reiterated its previously articulated concerns regarding retail competition
February 25, 2020
The Connecticut PURA approved new Last Resort Service rates at United Illuminating for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2020
February 13, 2020
Retail energy supplier New Wave Energy is conducting a promotion to offer natural gas supply to customers at Dominion Energy Ohio under a six-month, fixed rate contract priced at $2.16/mcf, with the offer open for enrollments on one day only, February 16 (2-16)
February 11, 2020
The Maryland PSC is set to launch later this month a new electricity shopping website, MD Electric Choice (mdelectricchoice.com)
February 4, 2020
The Pennsylvania PUC will soon implement further revisions to the PA Power Switch electricity shopping website
January 23, 2020
Additional New York utilities have posted 12-month trailing average utility supply rates, which are to be used as a price cap for certain ESCO offers
January 22, 2020
Utility Uses Weather-Normalized Rates
Update: NYSEG and RGE have also filed rates
January 22, 2020
PSC Orders Utility To Develop Time Of Use Pilot Limited To SOS Customers
In a final decision in its Modernizing the Energy Delivery System for Increased Sustainability (MEDSIS) proceeding (Power Path DC), the District of Columbia PSC endorsed the Staff recommendation for a new retail electric choice shopping website, and has already begun work on the site
January 20, 2020
The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC) said in comments to PUCO, in a rulemaking on natural gas utility bills , that, "[g]overnmental aggregators, like NOPEC, should have access to the Commission’s energy choice website."
January 14, 2020
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC the default service supply rate for the period beginning March 1, 2020 for the Medium Commercial & Industrial customers (25-200 kW, Rate Schedules GM and GMH)
December 20, 2019
PSE&G announced today that it will lower its residential natural gas supply rate, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
December 6, 2019
Will Pay Termination Fees For Customers Leaving Their REP To Enroll, Up To $100
Bulb, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing retail energy supplier and whose Texas market entry had been exclusively first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com in June , formally announced its launch of retail electric service in Texas, and said that, "Bulb’s plan is $400 cheaper per…
December 3, 2019
Draft Order Would Prohibit Retail Suppliers From Serving Hardship Customers
The Connecticut PURA issued a proposed decision which would require that all hardship customers be dropped to Standard Service (default service) by March 1, 2020, with suppliers prohibited from serving hardship customers
October 31, 2019
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has sought a Maryland PSC order requiring, if the PSC has such authority, that Smart One Energy, LLC (SOE) issue refunds to any customer who paid in excess of the default service rate
October 30, 2019
Staff: "Appears" That "Reserves" (Capacity) Not "Valued Appropriately" In ERCOT
Staff of the Utilities Division of the Arizona Corporation Commission have filed the first retail electric competition research submission
October 24, 2019
DTE Energy, in forecasting lower natural gas bills for residential customers from both lower usage and low prices, said that, "Customers will also benefit from additional savings for the winter heating season (November 2019 – March 2020) in expected decreases in DTE's cost of natural gas, which is…
October 2, 2019
Medium C&I Supply Rate Increases 24%
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC the default service supply rate for the period beginning December 1, 2019
September 16, 2019
Will Compare Retail Supplier, Default Service Rates Will Also Study Natural Gas Capacity Issues
The New Jersey BPU recently issued a public notice inviting comments on whether residential customers have saved money by taking service from a retail supplier under natural gas choice
September 10, 2019
PowerSetter, an online retail energy rate comparison and shopping marketplace, announced a rebate partnership with ecobee, a wi-fi enabled smart thermostat maker for residential and commercial applications.
September 9, 2019
Updated opt-out notification letter formats filed with the New York PSC by municipal aggregation Westchester Power include, in a rate chart presented to customers, an average rate from July 2017 to July 2018 when listing the rate for Consolidated Edison
September 5, 2019
The Ohio Consumers' Counsel said in testimony filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that, in 2018, residential customers on competitive natural gas supply at Duke Energy Ohio paid $11 million more than if they had paid Duke's GCR default service rate.
September 4, 2019
As directed by recently adopted legislation (L.D. 1003), the Maine PUC issued a proposed rule to require electric investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities to annually provide customers with a 10-year history of Standard Offer rates as part of the customer bill.
August 19, 2019
In a Public Utility Commission of Ohio proceeding reviewing the rules applicable to electricity billing, the Office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel said that PUCO should adopt a rule requiring EDCs to record shadow-billing data and make such information available to the PUCO, OCC, and the general…
August 6, 2019
Responding to the latest report issued by the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) said that an analysis shows that over $200 million in savings were available to Massachusetts residential customers from retail electric choice during the first sixth months of…
August 2, 2019
Staff of the District of Columbia PSC have issued a proposed order in the PSC's Modernizing the Energy Delivery System for Increased Sustainability (MEDSIS) proceeding, with the grid modernization efforts now being branded Power Path DC.
