April 23, 2020
Reports Lower Contribution From Customer Supply & Trading Business
During an earnings call, Jim Robo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NextEra Energy, Inc. said that NextEra Energy Resources's battery storage investments in 2021 are now expected to exceed $1 billion
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April 21, 2020
Starion Energy has launched, for customers in Massachusetts and Connecticut, a New England Green Power Plan that includes 100% local green power, in the form of RECs, reflecting wind power, solar power, and small hydropower sources generated in New England.
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April 21, 2020
Duquesne Light Proposes Increase In Fee To Retail Suppliers For Customer Enrollments Under Standard Offer Program Proposes Program To Allow CAP Customers To Shop, Treatment Of Customers With Existing EGS Contracts Differs From Other EDC
Duquesne Light Files New Default Service Plan
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April 17, 2020
Finding On SOS Contracts Has, "Sweeping Consequences For The Retail-Choice States," FERC's Glick Says FERC Says Voluntary RECs Are Not A State Subsidy, But Makes No Finding On Potential Broader Capacity Market "Distortions"
FERC Also Says Voluntary REC Generators Must Ensure Purchasers Do Not Resell RECs For RPS Compliance, In Order To Receive MOPR Exemption
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April 17, 2020
STX Group, LLC filed a petition for clarification with the New York PSC asking that the PSC allow ESCOs to engage in REC banking for compliance with the directive in the New York PSC's retail market reset order that holds that one of the compliant products ESCOs will be able to offer under the reset…
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April 16, 2020
In response to a petition from NextEra Energy Marketing, the Maryland PSC, "granted the Motion for Clarification finding that no Offshore Renewable Energy Credits from the offshore wind project of U.S. Wind will be collected or created for purchase by any electricity supplier prior to its current…
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April 16, 2020
The Texas PUC granted retail electric provider ATG Clean Energy Holdings Inc. an amended REP certificate to add the trade name Green Direct to its REP certificate
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April 14, 2020
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has approved HB 868 which, if adopted again in the next legislative session, would permit all customers of the investor-owned utilities to take competitive retail electric supply, if the customer purchases 100% renewable electricity, regardless of whether the incumbent…
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April 14, 2020
Source Power Company said that it has been chosen by solar developer TJA Clean Energy as TJA Clean Energy's, "exclusive partner for subscriber acquisition and management for their New York community solar portfolio."
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April 13, 2020
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has approved HB 889, which allows a handful of customers to aggregate non-contiguous sites for the purposes of reaching the current 5 MW threshold allowing customers to take electric choice without having to purchase 100% renewable supply as a condition of electric choice…
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April 10, 2020
Sets Margin For SOS Provider PSC Expects To Expand Percentage Of SOS Served Under Long-Term Contracts, If Risks Can Be Minimized
The District of Columbia PSC has adopted a model and cost recovery mechanism for integrating a long-term renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) for a target quantity of five (5) percent of the Standard Offer Service (SOS) load into the SOS portfolio.
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March 30, 2020
Alpha Gas & Electric, LLC petitioned the New York PSC for a partial waiver of the PSC's retail market reset order to allow Alpha to provide a 'green gas' product offering, "as a value-added premium product to its customers seeking to decarbonize their energy profile (the 'Green Gas Program')."
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March 27, 2020
Staff of the Maryland PSC said that it is, "not completely clear," in the text of an applicable regulation that an administrator which will bill retail electric suppliers for offshore wind RECs (OREC) is prevented from collecting funds from suppliers prior to commercial operation of an eligible…
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March 26, 2020
Proposes Change To Standard Offer Customer Referral Program To Move Participants Back To Default Service At End Of Retail Supply Term If Customer Does Not Affirmatively Select Choice
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March 16, 2020
Energy Harbor Corp. (f/k/a FirstEnergy Solutions) has notified PJM Interconnection of its decision to rescind the March 28, 2018, Deactivation Notices for its competitive nuclear generating station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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March 10, 2020
Pilot Customers Would Also Be Allowed To Purchase 100% Renewable Power While Supplied By Utility Utility Seeks To Defer Implementation Costs Until Next Rate Case
Pepco in the District of Columbia has filed a proposed residential supply rate Time of Use rate pilot, called Schedule R-TOU-P The D.C. PSC had directed Pepco to propose the TOU pilot for SOS customers
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March 9, 2020
Both Houses of the Virginia General Assembly have agreed to a re-enactment clause added to HB 868, the stand-alone bill addressing the current renewable electricity exemption for competitive electricity supply
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March 9, 2020
The City of Dayton, Ohio said that, at the end of this year, IGS Energy, the City’s longtime electric supplier, will transition several of the city's municipal facilities to a 100% renewable energy product through the procurement of green power from hydro-power resources.
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March 9, 2020
Ameren Illinois has announced proposed legislation called the Downstate Clean Energy Affordability Act
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March 6, 2020
Revived Bill Allowing Customers To Take 100% Renewable Energy From Supplier Regardless Of Utility Green Offering Passed By Senate, Differs From House
The Virginia Senate has passed a substitute for HB 889, with the substitute significantly reducing the retail electric choice provisions versus the original version passed by the House
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March 3, 2020
Committee Also Revives Bill Allowing Customers To Take 100% Renewable Energy From Supplier Regardless Of Utility Green Offering
The Virginia Senate's Committee on Commerce and Labor has reported out a substitute for HB 889 with the substitute significantly reducing the retail electric choice provisions versus the version passed by the House
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March 2, 2020
Seeks Finding That Plans Meet Energy-Related Value Added Standard, Do Not Need To Meet Pricing Conditions Of Retail Market Reset Order
Direct Energy Services, LLC, on behalf of itself and its affiliate Gateway Energy Services Corporation (collectively, 'Direct Energy') petitioned the New York PSC to issue an "expedited" declaratory ruling, finding and declaring that each of Direct Energy’s Green Gas Programs for mass market…
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February 26, 2020
Supplier Continues Marketing Suspension, Will Issue $1 Million In Refunds
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopted a settlement between Verde Energy USA Ohio, LLC d/b/a Verde Energy and PUCO Staff under which Verde is to pay a forfeiture of $675,000, and withdraw from Dominion East Ohio’s Monthly Variable Rate (MVR) program (see explanation at bottom of story) for…
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February 25, 2020
A substitute for Virginia HB 889 was submitted to the Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor, with the substitute significantly reducing the retail electric choice provisions versus the version passed by the House
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February 19, 2020
Retail electric provider ATG Clean Energy Holdings Inc. filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to add the trade name Green Direct to its REP certificate
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