October 18, 2017
Retail Supplier Launches New York City Office
Retail supplier and renewable energy provider CleanChoice Energy announced it has opened a Manhattan office to develop new solar software and clean technological innovations.
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October 17, 2017
PAEnergyRatings.com Officially Launches Supplier Ratings, Price Site, Lists Its Top 10 Retail Suppliers
Electricity Ratings, LLC has officially launched PAEnergyRatings.com which provides electricity prices, customer ratings and reviews of retail suppliers, and other information for electricity shopping
October 2, 2017
Vistra: Solutions In NRG/Calpine Whitepaper On ERCOT Market Would Not Address Cited Problems, Instead Benefit Houston-Area Generators
Vistra Suggests Price Adder When Thermal Resources Needed To Serve Load, But Are Not Price-Setting
Commenting on a whitepaper on price formation issues in the ERCOT market commissioned by NRG and Calpine, Vistra Energy said that rather than addressing the drivers of low energy prices in ERCOT, the proposals from the NRG/Calpine whitepaper would not address such drivers and instead the proposals…
September 27, 2017
Houston-area Papa John's Franchisee Selects Texas Retail Provider For Renewable Energy Supply Agreement
Houston Pizza Venture, one of the largest Papa John's franchisees in the country, has entered into a nine-year agreement with TXU Energy to receive a mix of solar and wind power.
September 22, 2017
Facebook Selects 100% Renewable Energy For HQ Via Municipal Aggregation Option
Facebook has switched all electric accounts at its Menlo Park headquarters to Peninsula Clean Energy’s (PCE) ECO100 option, which is an option 100% renewable energy product for participants in the PCE community choice aggregation
September 22, 2017
Mass. Utilities Seek Approval Of Long-Term Supply Contracts, Propose Cost Recovery Mechanism/Disposition of Product (Some To Be Used For Default Service)
The Massachusetts electric distribution utilities have jointly sought DPU approval for 20-year PPAs with 10 renewable energy projects totaling nearly 400 MW
September 19, 2017
NEM: ESCOs Have Saved New Yorkers $10 Billion Over Last 16 Years
ESCOs have saved New Yorkers, across all customer classes, over $10 billion over the last 16 years, the National Energy Marketers Association said in testimony in the New York PSC's evidentiary review of the retail energy mass markets
September 18, 2017
Virginia Denies Appalachian Power's Proposed Renewable Energy Tariff (Approval Would Have Triggered Termination of Choice For Certain Customers)
The Virginia SCC has denied the application of Appalachian Power Company to institute a voluntary renewable energy rider, designated Rider REO
September 18, 2017
New York DPS Staff: End Mass Market ESCO Sales Except For Guaranteed Savings, "Value-Added" 100% (Not 30%) Renewable, And Municipal Aggregation or Not-For-Profit ESCOs
DPS Staff: Only 6 (of 100+) ESCOs Beat ConEd Bill in 2016
September 8, 2017
Retail Supplier Launches Massachusetts Office
CleanChoice Energy announced it has opened a Massachusetts office to support the company's growth in the state.
September 7, 2017
Large Energy Users Form New Coalition To Expand Opportunities For Procurement Of Desired Electricity Supplies
Several large C&I customers have formed the Advanced Energy Buyers Group, described as, "a collection of large energy users seeking to expand access to energy that is secure, clean, and affordable," with the goal of, "elevating the voice of advanced energy purchasers on policy issues that impact…
September 7, 2017
Retail Supplier Parent Teams With Renewable Developer To Offer Community Solar
ENGIE and Clean Energy Collective (CEC), a community solar solutions provider, announced that they have joined forces on a community solar portfolio consisting of 16 solar facilities located throughout Massachusetts.
August 28, 2017
Settlement Would Allow Utility To Develop Renewable Generation, Enter Contract With Retail Customer For Such Generation
A settlement signed by numerous parties in AEP Ohio's electric security plan proceeding would affirm AEP Ohio's authorization, from a prior PUCO order, to develop new renewable generation, but would add the ability for AEP Ohio to enter into a contract (known as a reasonable arrangement) with a…
August 25, 2017
Regulator Rules On Customers To Be Included In Municipal Aggregations On Opt-Out Basis
The Massachusetts DPU issued an order concerning the customers eligible to be included in electricity municipal aggregations on an opt-out basis.
August 24, 2017
PSC Approves Part Of Consumers Energy's Program To Offer Large Businesses 100% Renewable Energy
The Michigan PSC approved one of the options proposed by Consumers Energy under its Voluntary Large Customer Renewable Energy Pilot Program (VLC), which will offer large businesses the opportunity to purchase 100 percent renewable energy.
August 22, 2017
RECs Marketer, Which Offers Free 50% Green Power, Entering Electricity Supply Brokering Business
Recently Hired Retail Market Veteran
Arcadia Power, Inc. is seeking electricity supply brokering licenses in several states, including Ohio and Illinois, to serve all customer classes.
August 16, 2017
RESA: Analysis Shows Millions in Potential Electricity Savings Available to Connecticut Consumers
RESA: Many Competitive Electricity Offers Available Below The Cost Of Utility Standard Service Rate
An analysis of Connecticut’s competitive electricity market shows many competitive offers below the cost of utility service, and if all Connecticut electricity consumers taking utility standard rate service switched to these lowest available competitive offers, the potential savings are more than…
August 15, 2017
Retail Supplier Launches 100% Solar Offer In 9 States
Retail supplier CleanChoice Energy announced that it is now offering residential customers a 100% solar electricity supply plan in eight states and the District of Columbia
August 9, 2017
Wind Investors Seek Certified Question To Texas PUC Concerning Whether Approval Needed For Passive Transfers Of Interests In Generation
Several wind investors have, in separate applications raising the same question, sought to certify to the Texas PUC the question of whether transactions in which only passive interests in a generator are transferred, and in which there is no transfer of any ability for the investors to manage or…
July 28, 2017
Retail Supplier Now A Certified B Corp
3 Phases Renewables, which offers direct access in California among other renewable energy solutions, announced today that it has become a Certified B Corporation.
July 27, 2017
Direct Seeks Dismissal Of Dominion Virginia Power Application For Renewable Supply Tariff (Tariff Would Foreclose Ability Of Certain Customers To Take Competitive Supply)
Direct Energy Services, LLC asked the Virginia SCC to dismiss an application from Dominion Virginia Power for approval of 100 percent renewable energy tariffs, as Direct argued that as Dominion's application lacks information on the rate or source of renewable power under the program, "it fails to…
July 13, 2017
In Addressing Whether Utilities Should Be Required To Allow C&Is To Independently Contract With Renewable Energy Suppliers, Michigan PSC "Encourages" Utilities To Cooperate With C&Is On Customers' Preferred Mechanism
While not adopting a prescriptive requirement at this time, the Michigan PSC, in directing the utilities to file voluntary green power programs as required under the state's recent Act 342, "encourage[d]," the utilities to work in cooperation with any C&Is who feel that contracting directly with a…
June 23, 2017
Utility Holding Company, Parent of Retail Supplier To Acquire EnerNOC
EnerNOC, Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by the Enel Group, a multinational power utility and integrated electricity and gas operator with operations in over 30 countries across five continents with a managed capacity of approximately 85 GW and more than 65 million business and…
June 13, 2017
Sunnova Raises Nearly $1 Billion In Past Three Months
Funding To Help Growth in Texas Sunnova Wants To Be Customers' "Primary Power Provider"
Sunnova Energy Corporation announced today it has raised aggregate capital of nearly $1 billion in the past three months after closing a $140 million round of debt funding with CIT Group and other investors this past week.
June 8, 2017
Retail Supplier To Provide Local Solar Power To Verizon Center
Monumental Sports & Entertainment and WGL Energy Services, Inc. announced a partnership that will allow Verizon Center, home to the Washington Wizards, Capitals, Mystics and Valor, to purchase power from a new solar facility in Maryland.