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May 29, 2015
A revised draft Connecticut PURA decision would find that "incidental" residential accounts -- those meters associated with non-residential customers but assigned a residential rate class -- are not subject to new statutory billing information requirements, removing the concern that such incidental…
April 29, 2015
A Connecticut PURA draft order appears to prohibit retail suppliers from serving residential meters associated with non-residential customers (incidental residential accounts) with any product except a fixed rate, or standard variable-monthly rate, as defined in a prior PURA order concerning…
April 24, 2015
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a tentative order to develop a "joint" natural gas distribution company–natural gas supplier bill which would require that a supplier's logo be included on a utility consolidated bill, but would not permit the recovery of the cost of a supplier's value-added service on…
April 13, 2015
Columbia Gas of Ohio has filed tariffs to permit retail suppliers to utilize bill ready utility consolidated billing, in addition to the current rate ready billing.
April 6, 2015
A Public Utility Law Judge has concluded that sanctions sought by Staff of the Maryland PSC against Starion Energy are not supported by any evidence, and that the activity to which Staff objects has already been litigated and settled.
April 3, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in adopting a Duke Energy Ohio electric security plan for the three-year period beginning June 2015, approved a continuation of Duke Energy Ohio's electric purchase of receivables program, but ruled that non-commodity costs shall be excluded from both POR and…
February 27, 2015
New York has directed Staff to investigate and report on supplier consolidated billing (called Consolidated ESCO Billing or CEB in New York), as part of its Reforming the Energy Vision order.
February 26, 2015
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved Duke Energy Ohio's proposed bill changes to comply with the requirement to include retail supplier logos on utility consolidated bills.
January 7, 2015
Staff of the Maryland PSC have filed testimony recommending that Starion Energy, "be ordered to cease serving customers in the State."
December 23, 2014
The "erratic" behavior of FirstEnergy regarding the competitive market makes the health of the current retail market at the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities precarious, and the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio should not rely on current migration levels as indicative of a sustainable market, IGS Energy…
November 24, 2014
Ohio electric utilities have filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio sample bills which incorporate the logo of the customer's retail electric supplier.
October 13, 2014
A revised draft Connecticut PURA decision implementing several new statutes has dropped some of the more extreme proposals from an August draft, but would still impose onerous new requirements on electric supplier marketing and contracting.
September 29, 2014
A proposal from Duke Energy Ohio in its electric security plan application has been called "discriminatory" by retail suppliers, who argue that it would favor the utility's affiliate offering unregulated services.
September 15, 2014
An Ohio utility has told a group of industrial customers that it intends to reimburse them for charges paid on utility consolidated bills related to FirstEnergy Solutions' RTO Expense Surcharge, and will cease billing amounts related to the charge on utility consolidated bills, the industrial…
August 26, 2014
Maryland should consider implementing pro-rata utility consolidated billing, instead of purchase of receivables, to address the variable rate pricing issues which were revealed during this year's polar vortex, the Maryland Office of People's Counsel said in comments on a working group report.
August 25, 2014
Staff of the New York PSC has issued a straw proposal for Track One of New York's Reforming the Energy Visions Proceeding, which, among other things, recommends enhancements to consolidated utility billing, and would grant distributed energy resource (DER) providers with customers information…
August 6, 2014
A Connecticut PURA draft decision, first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com (click here) , regarding new electric customer protections and rules for retail suppliers, "could stifle and ultimately collapse the retail electric supply market in Connecticut," the Retail Energy Supply Association said…
August 5, 2014
The FirstEnergy Ohio electric distribution companies included several retail market "enhancements" as part of their electric security plan filing covering the period beginning June 1, 2016, but most of the enhancements are required under PUCO's retail market investigation order, and those which were…
August 4, 2014
A Connecticut PURA draft decision would prohibit the use of utility consolidated billing for "variable plan" electric products
June 10, 2014
The New Hampshire PUC has approved without modification a settlement regarding the payment hierarchy for electric utility consolidated bills, and certain other retail market enhancements.
May 27, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has referred the question of how electric generation prices should be presented, and uniformity in such formatting, to its Office of Competitive Market Oversight.
May 27, 2014
While Pennsylvania has ordered the electric distribution companies to include the logo of a customer's electric supplier on utility consolidated bills by June 1, 2015, that logo may not necessarily be in color, under a final order published Friday.
May 21, 2014
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended "significant" changes to AEP Ohio's proposed purchase of receivables program, in testimony filed in AEP Ohio's electric security plan proceeding.
May 9, 2014
The Maryland PSC Staff has petitioned the PSC to open an investigation into the causes of negative discount rates for the purchase of electric and natural gas supplier receivables
April 18, 2014
A draft "interim" order in the Connecticut PURA's review of electric market consumer protections would prohibit retail suppliers from offering certain products to mass market customers via utility consolidated billing, and would also require suppliers to provide written notice of variable rate…
