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September 30, 2026
Pursuant to recent legislation, Commonwealth Edison and Ameren Illinois have each filed tariffs with the Illinois Commerce Commission to implement new time of use default service electricity rate options
September 28, 2026
The Massachusetts DPU will develop a straw proposal for implementation of time-varying rates (TVR) for electricity basic service (default service), the DPU said in addressing a request form Nstar, National Grid, and Unitil, who had asked that the TVR investigation use an evidentiary process
September 11, 2026
Nstar, National Grid, and Unitil in Massachusetts have requested that the Massachusetts DPU use an evidentiary process, including discovery, testimony, and hearings, to adjudicate proposals for implementation of time-varying default service electric rates
September 9, 2026
Major parties to a Maine PUC investigation into time of use rates, including whether TOU rates should be adopted for default service, have proposed shelving the investigation, with the near-term focus instead shifting to (among other things) consideration of other changes to default service to…
September 1, 2026
In comments at the Massachusetts DPU, the NRG Energy Retail Companies said that, "for customers served by municipal aggregators and/or retail suppliers, ISO-NE should allocate transmission costs directly to those municipal aggregators and/or retail suppliers that wish to have that option, rather…
August 13, 2026
The presiding officers of a Maine PUC proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service have extended a current stay in the proceeding such that the stay is extended to September 14, 2026
August 12, 2026
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) asked the Maine PUC for an extension of a stay in a proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service
July 21, 2026
The Maine PUC has scheduled, for parties to the proceeding, a settlement conference in the PUC's examination of the implementation of time of use rates for electricity standard offer service.
July 21, 2026
The Massachusetts DPU has extended the deadline for the submission of utility responses to various questions, and for stakeholder comment on additional topics, in the DPU's newly opened investigation into the design and implementation of time-varying rates (TVR) for default electricity service (aka…
July 21, 2026
Connecticut Light and Power (Eversource) applied at the Connecticut PURA for approval of an accelerated deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), using previously selected technologies
June 30, 2026
Following a petition from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com here) , the Massachusetts DPU has opened an inquiry into the design and implementation of time-varying rates (TVR) for default service (aka basic service)
June 26, 2026
Staff of the Maine PUC, in conjunction with Staff's consultant, have provided a further response to the utilities' questions concerning a minimum stay, or switching restriction, that would apply in certain straw proposals for time of use default service rates
June 23, 2026
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate has expressed concern regarding if, and when, customers would receive benefits from Time of Use electric rates (including potentially TOU default service rates) in Maine, given that straw proposals under consideration would not change the wholesale default…
June 10, 2026
Addresses Timeline For Reconciliation Of SOS Rates
Staff of the Maine PUC, in answers provided in conjunction with a PUC consultant, have answered further questions concerning straw proposals for the implementation of time of use rates, including TOU default service rates.
June 1, 2026
The Maine PUC Staff have informed stakeholders that, at this time, Versant Power’s Maine Public District (formerly Maine Public Service) is being removed from consideration in connection with various straw proposals for implementing time of use default service rates
May 26, 2026
The presiding officers of a Maine PUC proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service have declined to stay the proceeding
May 19, 2026
In reply comments in the Massachusetts DPU's inquiry on electric delivery rates (which has, as previously reported, included consideration of policies concerning electricity supply), the state's investor-owned utilities said that the goals of time of use pricing may not be realized because the…
May 14, 2026
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) asked the Maine PUC to stay a proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service
April 24, 2026
Subject to one recommended change, Staff of the PUC of Ohio have recommended approval of Dayton Power and Light's (AES Ohio) proposal to offer a residential Time of Use Standard Service Offer rate on an opt-in basis, as an alternative to the default SSO rate
April 23, 2026
Ford provided an update concerning its and TXU Energy's previously launched retail electric offering for Ford electric SUV and truck customers in Texas that includes free EV charging from 10 p.m. to 1 p.m. the next day
April 9, 2026
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources has petitioned the Massachusetts Department Of Public Utilities to open an investigation of time-varying electricity rates, with DOER proposing the implementation of a default, opt-out time-of-use (TOU) rate for basic electricity service (default…
April 8, 2026
The New Jersey BPU has filed in docket QO26030059 a notice of a Grid Flexibility Services proceeding within the BPU's new Grid Modernization Forum (GMF), which is comprised of workgroups which are to tackle the barriers to increasing hosting capacity, distributed energy resource (DER) participation…
April 6, 2026
The Maine PUC has posted answers from PUC Staff, and the PUC's consultant, to questions from the electric utilities concerning various straw proposals for the implementation of time of use electric rates, including potentially TOU supply rates for Standard Offer (non-shopping) customers
April 1, 2026
PECO in a newly filed electric rate case at the Pennsylvania PUC has proposed under a pilot to offer to residential customers discounted leases of battery energy storage systems (BESS)
March 17, 2026
Rhythm Energy announced that it will expand its Texas offerings to small commercial customers with two new plans, All Business and PowerShift Business.
