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April 26, 2016
Consumer advocates sought to redefine the definition of a fixed price product, and to create a voluntary standard electricity offer, in making recommendations concerning the Texas Power to Choose site
April 22, 2016
The Pennsylvania PUC issued a final rulemaking order concerning natural gas marketing disclosure rules which, among other things, require a natural gas supplier (NGS) to provide the customer with notice of a change in a variable rate 30 days in advance in situations where the customer has rolled…
April 14, 2016
Respond Power LLC has reached a global settlement in principle with the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate and Attorney General concerning a complaint filed by the OCA and AG regarding Respond Power's marketing practices
March 29, 2016
During a collaborative meeting yesterday concerning the New York PSC's retail market reset order, Staff of the New York PSC admonished ESCOs for focusing on challenges presented in developing pricing benchmarks to potentially be used to allow and evaluate ESCO products in the market, warning that if…
March 28, 2016
The Retail Energy Supply Association and IGS Energy sought rehearing of the New York PSC's retail markets reset order, and in such petition also sought clarification of the affirmative consent required under the order to move customers to certain compliant products
March 25, 2016
The Maryland PSC recently adopted a final order which imposes a civil penalty of a $250,000 on Major Energy Electric Services, LLC and a $50,000 civil penalty, jointly and severally, on Major Energy Electric Services, LLC and Major Energy Services, LLC, as a result of an investigation into the…
March 23, 2016
A U.S. District Court has granted a motion to dismiss filed by Starion Energy PA, Inc. and dismissed a suit, which had sought class action status, brought against the company concerning variable rates and whether such rates were obligated to reflect "market" pricing.
March 22, 2016
A U.S. District Court has granted summary judgment in favor of Ambit Energy in a suit, which had sought class action status, brought against the company concerning variable rates, as the Court dismissed the suit
March 21, 2016
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted a final order which approved, with one modification, a $7 million settlement between Energy Services Providers Inc. (d/b/a Pennsylvania Gas & Electric or PAG&E) and the state's Attorney General and Office of Consumer Advocate
March 14, 2016
A proposed Connecticut PURA decision would impose a $121,000 civil penalty on Liberty Power Holdings, LLC (Liberty), and place Liberty Power Holdings, LLC on a probationary period, for what the proposed order would conclude constituted impermissible "back-billing" by the company.
March 10, 2016
The Connecticut PURA, in an interim order, ordered Palmco Power CT, LLC to send to its existing customers a letter comparing the customer's current Palmco rate with the default service rate, and informing the customer how to switch.
March 10, 2016
Alleging that ESCOs may jack up rates under the assumption this is the "final opportunity" to make money in New York, the New York PSC has asked a court to require ESCOs petitioning for review of the PSC's full stop retail markets order to provide an undertaking in the amount of $100 million to…
March 9, 2016
Genie Retail Energy continued net customer growth during the fourth quarter of 2015, though at a slower pace than the third quarter of 2015
March 8, 2016
Ambit Energy has begun accepting residential and small commercial enrollments at Northern Indiana Public Service Company in Indiana and Columbia Gas in Ohio.
March 8, 2016
New electric and natural gas customer protection rules approved by the Maryland PSC last month have now been published in the March 4, 2016 state register.
March 3, 2016
Retail suppliers have appealed a ruling from the New York PSC Records Access Officer (RAO) in which the RAO denied confidential treatment of residential historic pricing that ESCOs have been required to file with the PSC since early 2014.
March 3, 2016
The Secretary of the New York PSC has denied a request to extend a March 4 deadline for ESCOs to comply with the PSC's February 23 retail mass market order.
March 2, 2016
New York PSC Staff have issued today a guidance document concerning specifics as to how ESCOs may comply with the PSC's recent "full stop" retail mass market order.
February 29, 2016
New York's February 23 order requiring a "full stop" to the retail energy mass market, "requires changes that were unexpected and are impossible to implement within the 10 day time-frame specified in the Order," IGS Energy said in a request for an extension of the compliance deadline
February 24, 2016
The New York PSC has ordered that ESCOs servicing mass market electric and natural gas customers on month-to-month variable rate products must return these customers to default service, or "enroll" the customers onto a compliant product under the PSC's "full stop" of the retail market.
February 12, 2016
The Pennsylvania PUC voted to issue a tentative order which would adopt, with one modification, a $7 million settlement between Energy Services Providers Inc. (d/b/a Pennsylvania Gas & Electric or PAG&E) and the state's Attorney General and Office of Consumer Advocate
February 10, 2016
Western Massachusetts Electric Company (Eversource) has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electric rates for large C&I customers for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2016
February 10, 2016
Nstar (Eversource) has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electric rates for large C&I customers for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2016
February 9, 2016
NRG Home has begun offering residential natural gas service, in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Illinois.
February 2, 2016
The New York PSC Records Access Office has denied confidential treatment for residential historic pricing that ESCOs have been required to file with the PSC since early 2014.
