October 27, 2022
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued for public comment a previously reported settlement between National Gas & Electric, LLC (NG&E or the Company) and the Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) of the Pennsylvania PUC to resolve alleged instances of overbilling and slamming
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August 30, 2022
Corrective Measures Also Address Ensuring Sale Prospect Is Authorized To Enroll Utility Account
National Gas & Electric, LLC (NG&E or the Company) would pay $15,250 under a settlement with the Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) of the Pennsylvania PUC to resolve alleged instances of overbilling and slamming
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June 13, 2022
Staff of a Public Utilities Commission have filed an amended recommendation stating that the PUC should deny certain requested third party verification rule waivers sought by…
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June 13, 2022
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have filed a formal report of their investigation into…
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June 10, 2022
Supplier Will Give Certain Affected Customers Opportunity To Cancel Or Re-enroll; New Consent Needed For Re-enrollment
A retail supplier would pay a forfeiture of $275,000 under a settlement with…
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June 8, 2022
Staff of a Public Utilities Commission would grant…
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April 20, 2022
Investigation Stems, In Part, From Sales Call To Chief PUC Staffer, Which Was Allegedly Manipulated
A Public Utilities Commission voted to open an investigation of…
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April 19, 2022
A retail energy supplier would exit a state's residential electric market under a settlement with…
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April 8, 2022
Supplier's Customers To Be Dropped To Default Service
Settlement opposed by AG, OCC
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April 6, 2022
A retail supplier has entered into a settlement with…
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March 23, 2022
A retail energy supplier has agreed to a forfeiture of $16,000 under a settlement with…
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March 3, 2022
A retail energy supplier disclosed that…
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January 12, 2022
Order Says Terms & Conditions Cannot Form "Contract" If Not Signed "e-TPV Also Cannot Help Formulate The Contract," Order Says
A previously reported proposed order from a Maryland utility law judge that had proposed to approve, with certain modifications, a $150,000 settlement agreement among Statewise Energy Maryland LLC ('SWE' or 'Statewise'), Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission ('Staff') and the Maryland…
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December 27, 2021
Mega Energy of New England, LLC ('Company') and the Delegated Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities have entered into a settlement agreement under which Mega Energy would return its residential customers in Massachusetts to default service, and pay $100,000.
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December 20, 2021
Court Largely Affirms Other PSC Orders, Including Application Of Telemarketing Rules To Certain Inbound Sales Calls Supplier To Appeal Court's Opinion, Says All Telephonic Commerce In State Would Be "Upended" Under Order
The Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland issued an opinion which largely affirmed a Maryland PSC decision concerning an investigation into SmartEnergy Holdings, LLC d/b/a SmartEnergy ('SmartEnergy' or the 'Company') that principally centered on application of the Maryland Telephone…
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December 10, 2021
An individual named Michael Zimmerman filed public comments, solely on Zimmerman's own behalf as an electric customer in Pennsylvania, with the Pennsylvania PUC alleging that an apparent agent for Discount Power, Inc. (DPI) engaged in deceptive behavior, as Zimmerman asked that a pending settlement…
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December 10, 2021
Proposed Order Says Terms & Conditions Cannot Form "Contract" If Not Signed "e-TPV Also Cannot Help Formulate The Contract," Judge Says
A Maryland PSC Public Utility Law Judge (PULJ) would modify a proposed $150,000 settlement agreement among Statewise Energy Maryland LLC ('SWE' or 'Statewise'), Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission ('Staff') and the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel ('OPC,' together with Statewise and…
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November 25, 2021
Would Require Supplier To Return All Customers In State To Default Service, As Regulator Alleges "Deeply Troubling, If Not Sickening" Sales Call/TPV NOV Says Use Of Phrases "Fixed Rate", "Price Protection" Are Deceptive "On Their Own"
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Discount Power, Inc. (Discount) which would: impose a fine on Discount in the amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000); would order Discount to pay…
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November 24, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a final order in which PURA, "finds that Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty or Company) failed to comply with Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 16-245(c), 16-245s, 16-245o, and the marketing standards developed by the Authority in…
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November 17, 2021
The Connecticut PURA approved without modification a settlement between PURA Enforcement Staff and Clearview Electric, Inc. under which Clearview will pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service, as more fully described in our original story on the settlement
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November 8, 2021
Clearview Electric, Inc. would pay $500,000 and return its Connecticut customers to default service under a settlement agreement with the Connecticut PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE), Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel, and the Connecticut Attorney General to resolve a…
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November 4, 2021
Statewise Energy Maryland LLC ('SWE') would pay $150,000 under a settlement with the Staff of the Maryland Public Service Commission ('Staff') and the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel ('OPC,' together with Statewise and Staff, the 'Settling Parties') to resolve an investigation into Statewise's…
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September 23, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority formally issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Clearview Energy, Inc. which would impose a civil penalty of $1 million against Clearview and which would require Clearview to return all of its Connecticut…
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September 21, 2021
Staff of the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE or Staff) of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority moved that PURA issue a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Clearview Energy, Inc. which would impose a civil penalty of $1 million…
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September 15, 2021
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority or PURA) issued a Notice of Violation and Assessment of Civil Penalty (NOV) against Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty or Company) which, subject to Liberty's right to contest the NOV via hearing, would suspend Liberty’s electric…
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