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May 8, 2018
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO.
April 23, 2018
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a settlement between the PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) and Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC (Plymouth Rock or the Company) under which Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC will pay a civil penalty of $98,683 to settle alleged overcharging of customers.
April 10, 2018
AG Says That, Through Lawsuit, "We Can Put This Bad Company Out Of Business"
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against Major Energy Electric Services LLC (Major Energy), an alternative retail electric supplier (ARES), for what the AG's office alleged in a news release was, "misleading thousands of Illinois customers about the company’s costly…
March 29, 2018
Stream Energy Illinois, LLC, petitioned the Illinois Commerce Commission for a temporary waiver of certain requirements of recently revised 83 Ill. Admin. Code Section 412.110, relating to disclosure form requirements and variable rate history
March 20, 2018
Slams Draft That Would Only Require EDCs To List "Not Provided" If Next Supplier Rate info Missing
Connecticut State Senator Len Suzio slammed, as insufficiently protecting customers, a draft PURA order which would require the electric distribution companies to list "Not Provided" on customer bills in the section listing the next rate information of the customer's retail supplier if the supplier…
March 13, 2018
The Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to terminate the Monthly Variable Rate (MVR) program as the default service for non-shopping non-residential customers at Dominion Energy Ohio, and to re-instate the Standard Choice Offer (SCO) as the…
March 12, 2018
The Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) filed a petition at PUCO to, "protect customers from unreasonably high natural gas prices that some marketers charge to residential customers through the Monthly Variable Rate (MVR)," at Dominion Energy Ohio, and requested that the PUCO re-establish…
March 8, 2018
NOPEC announced that its nearly 500,000 electric customers will receive a reduced rate on the generation portion of their electric bills this spring, or separate mailed checks, reflecting $9 million in rate credits.
February 21, 2018
Nstar (Eversource Energy) filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for large C&I customers in its Eastern Massachusetts service territory for the period beginning April 1, 2018
February 12, 2018
The Connecticut Business & Industry Association ("CBIA"), in accordance with Connecticut General Statutes ("CGS") section 16-245t, submitted to the Connecticut PURA a complaint concerning the alleged business practices of Mint Energy, LLC
February 5, 2018
Suggests Further Study Of Requiring Suppliers To Send Advance Notice Of Rate Changes Via Email
The working group leader in PC44, a Maryland PSC process addressing several retail market enhancements and issues, has recommended a third phase of the process be initiated to study several more issues.
December 14, 2017
The New York PSC at its session today granted a waiver to Utility Expense Reduction, LLC allowing the company to serve assistance program participant (APP) customers with a product that guarantees savings versus default service
December 7, 2017
The Pennsylvania PUC proposed today a host of changes to the retail electric marketing and disclosure standards
December 7, 2017
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened a new rulemaking proceeding to address the service obligations, sales and marketing practices of Alternative Gas Suppliers
November 14, 2017
For a second consecutive term, the City of Cincinnati has selected Constellation to provide monthly variable-rate natural gas supply to more than 40,000 Cincinnati residents and small businesses under the city's opt-out municipal aggregation for natural gas
November 8, 2017
Western Massachusetts Electric Co. (Eversource) has filed new default service rates for the period beginning January 1, 2018
October 27, 2017
Cite "Considerable Common Ground" On Key Areas
A group of ESCOs have asked the New York PSC to initiate confidential settlement discussions among parties in the New York PSC's evidentiary review of the retail energy mass markets
October 24, 2017
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued an order temporarily staying enforcement of the New York PSC's December 16, 2016, order which generally prohibits ESCOs from serving assistance program participant (APP) customers (except for any subsequently granted waiver)
October 19, 2017
Making modifications required by the Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), the Illinois Commerce Commission adopted new rules governing retail electric supplier marketing.
October 12, 2017
The Michigan Agency for Energy (MAE) has urged 4,500 former Energy America customers who may have signed up for service in 1998, "to check their bills to see if they are now being charged by Direct Energy Services as their natural gas supplier."
September 25, 2017
South Bay Energy recently launched electric and natural gas service in Ohio, at Duke Energy Ohio for both commodities
September 19, 2017
In testimony in the New York PSC's evidentiary review of the retail energy mass markets, Direct Energy, through its witness John Hanger (former Pa. PUC Commissioner), proposed several retail energy market changes. While not the company's preferred solution, Direct Energy said that if the PSC feels…
September 13, 2017
The Illinois Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) largely approved revisions to the retail electricity marketing rules as approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission in a second notice, but ordered several key revisions, including the elimination of double verification for in-person sales…
August 15, 2017
Nstar has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new electric basic service rates for the three-month period beginning October 1, 2017
August 8, 2017
Western Massachusetts Electric Co. (Eversource) has filed with the DPU new basic service rates for Medium & Large C&I customers for the three-month period beginning October 1, 2017
