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October 5, 2026
Retail energy suppliers should prioritize owning the customer bill even if that means using dual billing in those markets without supplier consolidated billing, Chaitu Parikh, co-founder of start-up Valantor and a long-time C-level executive in retail energy, told EnergyChoiceMatters.com
October 5, 2026
An ALJ appears to recommend that a limit be placed on the retail supplier plans eligible for purchase of receivables at…
September 21, 2026
A utility would, among other things, provide over $900,000 in customer bill credits, and also make a $300,000 contribution to its bill payment assistance program, under a settlement with…
September 21, 2026
Staff of a PUC have recommended that another utility…
September 10, 2026
The New York Retail Choice Coalition (NYRCC) alleged that the joint New York utilities' proposal to implement a newly required side-by-side bill comparison of ESCO and utility costs on utility consolidated bills presumes one interpretation of the statute which must first be resolved through a PSC…
September 2, 2026
Fitchburg Gas and Electric (Unitil) in Massachusetts has proposed a significant increase to its Residential purchase of receivables discount rate, under an annual update to the discount rates
August 5, 2026
In an answer to a petition from Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, the Retail Energy Supply Association objected to Columbia's reliance on a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court precedent concerning the billing of non-commodity services in the electric industry, given Pennsylvania's unique natural gas…
July 16, 2026
The Maryland utilities have reported the number of residential customers served under dual billing by each retail energy supplier during June 2026
July 14, 2026
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. ("Columbia") has sought a declaratory order from the Pennsylvania PUC affirming that a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, concerning an electric utility's billing of a non-commodity offering, also applies to Columbia's sought billing of non-supply and…
June 26, 2026
In comments filed in a rulemaking to update Maryland PSC retail energy billing requirements, the Retail Energy Supply Association has sought to require that utilities offer residential utility consolidated billing after December 31, 2027
June 8, 2026
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel has requested that the PSC include, in a rule concerning post-POR billing for residential customers, a prior PSC finding which OPC argues provides that, under any payment hierarchy, all regulated utility charges which "may" result in termination shall be paid…
June 2, 2026
The Maryland PSC has ordered that the data showing the number of residential accounts served by each retail electric and natural gas supplier, broken out by service area and then by billing type, shall be made public
May 20, 2026
Pepco and Delmarva in Maryland have, as directed by the Maryland PSC, offered greater justification for the utilities' proposal to establish an end date at which time the EDCs will cease accepting billing adjustments under their terminated residential purchase of receivables programs
May 11, 2026
Staff of the Maryland PSC have proposed rule changes to, among other things, formally implement the prohibition on the purchase of retail energy supplier receivables by utilities for residential customers; to impose a limit of retail supplier late fees under dual billing; and to add rule language…
May 6, 2026
The Maryland utilities have reported the compliance by retail energy suppliers with the end of residential UCB with POR, which required suppliers to either drop customers to default service effective January 1, 2026, or serve the customers under dual billing or SCB
April 28, 2026
The Maryland PSC has denied a request from retail energy suppliers to direct the utilities to continue to negotiate concerning a form of utility consolidated billing without POR for residential customers, as the PSC formally declined to extend UCB for residential customers
April 22, 2026
An initial decision from two Pennsylvania PUC ALJs has become final, and the final order dismisses, without prejudice, an application from Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. for an affiliated interest agreement that was filed as part of Columbia Gas' intent to enter into a Billing Agreement with…
April 10, 2026
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a statement that Columbia, "is not filing Exceptions to the Initial Decision issued on March 19, 2026 in the above-captioned matter," with such captioned matter being solely listed as Docket No. G-2025-3056022
April 1, 2026
The PUC of Ohio adopted without modification AEP Ohio's amended application for electricity bill format changes, as PUCO informed retail electric suppliers that PUCO expects retail suppliers to "take full advantage" of bill messaging space allocated to retail suppliers, for general purposes, as a…
March 31, 2026
As part of a newly filed rate case in Pennsylvania, Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC has filed updates to its purchase of receivables discount rates and has proposed an increase in the billing fee charged to retail suppliers
March 19, 2026
An initial decision from two Pennsylvania PUC ALJs would dismiss, without prejudice, an application from Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. for an affiliated interest agreement that was filed as part of Columbia Gas' intent to enter into a Billing Agreement with Pivotal Home Solutions, LLC, which…
December 23, 2025
The Maryland PSC has approved tariff changes at each of the major utilities with residential electric and gas choice programs which will allow the utilities to drop residential customers to default service if the customer is not moved to dual billing upon the end of residential utility consolidated…
December 8, 2025
Would Also Require Itemized List Of ESCO Costs
New York bill S3876 today was delivered to the governor, after having passed both houses in April
December 1, 2025
Staff of the Maryland PSC recommended that the PSC issue an order authorizing the state's utilities to drop residential shopping customers to default service if the customer's supplier has not transitioned the customer to dual billing upon the end of utility consolidated billing with purchase of…
November 14, 2025
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), CleanChoice Energy Inc., and IDT Energy, Inc. again requested that the Maryland PSC stay its 2024 order which ends grandfathered residential UCB with POR on December 31, 2025, and provides that utilities are not required to offer UCB beyond December 31…
