Companion Texas Bills Filed Addressing End Of General Land Office Retail Power Program; REP Mandates
SB 2116 has been filed in the Texas Senate by Sen. Kelly Hancock to terminate the authority of the Texas General Land Office to sell retail electr...
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Texas Distributed Generation Bill Would Prohibit Certain Fees Charged By Retail Providers
A bill (H.B. No. 2860) introduced into the Texas legislature relating to distributed generation would prohibit certain fees charged by retail electric...
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Texas-Based Solar Provider Sees "Hundreds" Of Marketing, Disclosure Complaints In Puerto Rico
USA Today reports on "hundreds" of complaints from customers in Puerto Rico against Sunnova which allege various infirmities in marketing and disclosu...
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Ofgem To Launch Review To Protect Retail Energy Customers Against Brokers
U.K. Regulator Ofgem is set to open a review of the retail energy market for small businesses, which will include a review of brokers, The Times repor...
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Police Charge Door-to-Door Energy Sales Reps With Breaking & Entering
The Boston (MA) police issued a bulletin stating, and recounting allegations from a citizen report, as follows: "At about 2:10 PM on Monday, December ...
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Report: Direct Energy Selling Inside Wal-Marts
As part of a story looking at additional service now offered by retail electric providers, L.M. Sixel, in the Houston Chronicle, reports that Direct E...
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New ComEd CEO: Market Has "Inadequate Consumer Protections"
Joseph Dominguez, who recently assumed the role of CEO at Commonwealth Edison, told Chicago Defender that there are, "inadequate consumer protections,...
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Report: Competitive Energy "Scams" Hit Poor African Americans, Latinos The Hardest, Complaints Show
The Chicago (IL) Reporter published an analysis which it said, "finds that a disproportionately high concentration of consumer complaints against alte...
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Texas Solar Provider Now Offering Residential PPAs, "You Get Lower Electricity Bills For 25 Years"
Alba Energy announced in a press release, "the SMART Solar Power Purchase Agreement, an innovative energy solution for Texas homeowners in deregulated...
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Attorney General Investigating Allegations Concerning Door-to-Door Energy Sales Agents
In a story concerning the lives of agents selling electricity door-to-door, Crain's Chicago Business reports that the Illinois Attorney General is inv...
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Just Energy: US Appeals Court Affirms Use of the Outside Sales Exemption
Just Energy Group Inc. announced that in Kevin Flood, et al. v. Just Energy Marketing Group, et al. 2d Cir., No. 17-0546, the United States Court of A...
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Chron: 221 Retail Provider Plans Removed From Power to Choose
The Houston Chronicle's L.M. Sixel reports that 221 offers from retail electric providers were removed from the Texas Power to Choose site for fai...
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Texas Solar Provider Marketing "Free Power For a Year"
Austin-based solar provider and installer Alba Energy has launched a promotion for homeowners in Texas under which anyone who signs up for a new solar...
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Texas REP Sales Agent: Power to Choose Site "Is The Enemy"
L.M. Sixel in the Houston Chronicle takes a look at retail electricity sales conducted at storefronts and other physical locations in physical retail ...
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Texas PUC Executive Director Issues Notice Of Violation Against 'Energy' Telemarketer
The executive director of the Public Utility Commission of Texas has issued a Notice of Violation against telemarketer Energy First, arising from alle...
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