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April 4, 2014
As part of its final rulemaking order on customer disclosures, the Pennsylvania PUC adopted a standard template for an Electric Generation Supplier Contract Summary, for residential and small commercial customers.
April 4, 2014
Departing from an earlier proposal, the Pennsylvania PUC will not require electric generation suppliers to notify variable rate customers, "of a rate increase of more than 50% over the prior billing cycle as soon as the EGS becomes aware that such an increase will occur."
April 4, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC, while requiring the disclosure of certain variable electric rate history by suppliers for residential and small business customers, has not yet determined how exactly such rate history shall be compiled and presented.
April 2, 2014
The New York PSC announced that it will hold a technical conference on May 15, 2014 to examine the issue of energy prices this winter.
April 2, 2014
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, Attorney General George Jepsen, Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz and State Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, Jr. are proposing legislation, the Electric Supplier Consumers' Bill of Rights, that would, among other things, require affirmative consent…
April 2, 2014
The Maryland PSC has issued show cause orders to American Power Partners, LLC; Blue Pilot Energy, LLC; Major Energy Electric Services, LLC and Major Energy Services, LLC; Xoom Energy Maryland, LLC; and U.S. Gas & Electric and Energy Services Providers, Inc. d/b/a Maryland Gas & Electric concerning…
April 1, 2014
Ambit Energy has begun offering electricity service in New Hampshire, at Public Service of New Hampshire, and natural gas service in Virginia, at Washington Gas Light
April 1, 2014
NRG Energy and Comcast are now offering their Energy Rewards energy supply bundle at West Penn Power in Pennsylvania.
March 28, 2014
The "extreme" pricing which has been the impetus for several proposed market changes in Pennsylvania result from, "one or two suppliers," NRG Retail Northeast said in comments to the Pennsylvania PUC.
March 26, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has directed that all retail electric suppliers shall respond to a survey in which suppliers shall provide their customer count broken out by fixed rate customers and variable rate customers.
March 25, 2014
Pennsylvania retail electric suppliers should be required to disclose to customers the highest electric rate they have charged in the past 60 months, the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate said in comments to the PUC.
March 24, 2014
During last week's Pennsylvania House hearing regarding soaring competitive electric rates, Rep. Peter Daley, Democratic Chair of the Consumer Affairs committee, said that competitive generators declined an invitation to appear before the committee.
March 24, 2014
Pricing pressures facing retail energy suppliers "will drive consolidation" and, "could well improve the market," Direct Energy said in comments to the Connecticut PURA.
March 21, 2014
Purchase of receivables, and specifically the utility's ability to disconnect service for non-payment of supplier charges, drew the ire of Pennsylvania State Representative Dan Moul, R, during a hearing yesterday concerning recent variable rate price spikes and proposed legislation to address the…
March 21, 2014
The free market for electricity in Pennsylvania "hasn't worked" in its current form, Pennsylvania State Rep. Robert Godshall, Chair of the Consumer Affairs committee, said during a hearing yesterday on variable prices.
March 20, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC intends to adopt a standard Electric Generation Supplier "Contract Summary" which all EGSs will be required to use for residential and small business customers, and the PUC also intends to require EGSs to provide certain customers with advance notice of variable rates.
March 17, 2014
Taken together, the 25 retail electric market proposals on which the Connecticut PURA sought comment, "could stifle and ultimately collapse the retail electric supply market in Connecticut," the Retail Energy Supply Association said in a request to postpone a fact finding session announced by PURA.
March 13, 2014
Direct Energy said that, effective April 1, the company will add a price protection feature to its current residential electric variable rates in each Pennsylvania utility service area in which the company serves.
March 12, 2014
Runaway wholesale electric prices have doomed another attempt to expand electric choice, this time in Pennsylvania -- a state which increasingly looks more and more like New York, Connecticut, and dare we say it, Maryland, thanks to unchecked and uncompetitive wholesale pricing.
March 12, 2014
The Connecticut PURA has invited stakeholders to submit, "written comments on the following topics or proposed rules and requirements," for electric suppliers.
March 11, 2014
Elin Swanson Katz, Connecticut Consumer Counsel, together with George Jepsen, Connecticut Attorney General, urged consumers, "to use caution when they receive a sales call from an electric supplier asking for account data over the phone."
March 11, 2014
NRG Energy, through Independence Energy Group LLC, and Comcast have launched a "trial" of their retail electricity supply initiative, using the Energy Rewards trade name.
March 10, 2014
Pennsylvania Gas & Electric announced that it has provided customers with approximately $2.4 million in rebates to date to alleviate the financial impact of the increased price of energy this winter.
March 7, 2014
Several retail energy trade associations have issued media briefs to explain why retail rates have spiked recently.
March 6, 2014
IDT Energy announced that it is providing customers with millions of dollars in goodwill credits and rebates, as a result of the polar vortex pricing.
