Shopping for New Electric Supplier Poses New Shock For Consumers
News Channel 13-Albany (WNYT) reports that as customers faced with soaring energy bills try to shop for savings, "finding the lowest cost is pretty mu...
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2 Investigators: Alternative Power Suppliers May Not Be Cheaper
CBS 2 Chicago ran a report on a customer seeing a spike in their electric rate after rolling over from a fixed to variable rate
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Report: Pennsylvania Bill Capping Variable Rates Stalls
The Allentown Morning Call reports that House Bill 2104, which includes various electric market reforms and consumer protections including caps on var...
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I-Team Probes Variable-Rate Energy Contracts
WBAL 11 News' "I-Team" has broadcast an investigation of variable rate electric contracts in Maryland
WBAL reports rates as high as 4...
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Word of Mouth: Pa. Customer Says "Don’t Shop", Keep Default Service
Reviewing the recent loss of residential electric customers on competitive supply, LancasterOnline.com quotes a frustrated customer, which we believe ...
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$12,000 in Bills from Retail Supplier Threatens Pa. Small Business
The Chambersburg, PA Public Opinion has a story of a small business owner at West Penn Power which faces $12,000 in electric bills from its competitiv...
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More Pennsylvania Variable Electricity Rate Reforms Likely
The Allentown Morning Call considers the implications of the Pennsylvania PUC's dual-track investigation of variable rate and other customer prote...
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Two Suppliers Draw Bulk Of Pa. Energy Price Complaints (But 10 Have 100+)
The Philadelphia Inquirer today reports on the release by the Pennsylvania PUC of the electric generation suppliers with the most recent complaints.
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Retail Suppliers With Variable Rates Look To Refunds To Keep Customers
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes a look at refunds and other strategies retail suppliers are using to mitigate excessive polar vortex wholesale elect...
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Electric Choice "Flimflam" Subject of Pennsylvania Constituent Forum
The local press has several stories concerning a forum on electric rates hosted by Pennsylvania State Senator Lisa Boscola
"While some alternative su...
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PPL Roundtable Explains Spike In Electricity Rates
The Republican & Herald, serving Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, has coverage of a Manufacturers and Employers Association energy roundtable where PP...
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ECM: Retail Supplier Says Pa. Variable Rate Controversy Results from "One Or Two Suppliers"
EnergyChoiceMatters.com today has a story regarding NRG Retail Northeast telling the Pa. PUC that drastic market changes are not needed since only &qu...
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Suppliers Charge Loyal Customers Much More Than New Customers
Although not North America, interesting story out of the U.K. Daily Mail concerning just how much more revenues retail suppliers are able to extract f...
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Even Fixed Plan Customers See Higher Electricity Bills
KDKA-Pittsburgh takes a look at customers who had been on fixed rate plans but who were switched to variable rate plans at the end of those term agree...
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Pa. Customer: We Are Never Going to Switch Again
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a write up on "skyrocketing" variable rates in Pennsylvania.
Notable is the conclusion from a customer ...
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