Texas State Rep. Presses PUCT To Adopt Extended Customer Protections For Hurricane Harvey Victims
Texas State Rep. Jessica Farrar filed a letter with the Texas PUC urging the PUC to adopt a petition from consumer advocates who had sought the adopti...
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Under Broad SB1976 Reading, Texas PUC Can’t Prohibit REPs From Disconnecting Non-Pay Customers, Ever
Organizations representing Texas retail electric providers filed comments concerning a strawman proposal filed by PUCT Staff which would eliminate sev...
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DMN Watchdog Again Pushes For Uniform Retail Provider Pricing, End To Minimum Usage Plans
Dallas Morning News Watchdog Dave Lieber published a column again calling for various retail electric market customer protections, including a require...
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Watchdog: Fined Retail Supplier, "Got Off Easy" (Wanted License Revoked)
Paul Muschick, Watchdog columnist for the Allentown Morning Call writes that Hiko Energy, which was fined $1.8 million by the Pennsylvania PUC an...
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New Jersey Senate Passes Retail Energy Customer Protection Bills
The New Jersey Senate has passed two bills related to retail energy consumer protection
The Senate passed A3851 which requires the BPU to develop a c...
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New Jersey Committee Advances Retail Energy Customer Protection Bills
The New Jersey Senate energy committee advanced three bills aimed at customer protections in the retail energy market
Of note is that the committee...
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House Passes Retail Electric Consumer Bill of Rights (Advance Notice of Rate Increases)
The Rhode Island House has passed H 5978, dubbed the electric consumer bill of rights
The bill awaits action in the Senate
Among other things, the p...
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PUC Assigns Docket for Review of Disclosure Statement
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued a new docket number for a proposed rulemaking for a new natural gas disclosure statement, arising out of the natural g...
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Warning to Retail Suppliers: Steer Clear of "Sheriff of the Internet"
Readers may have come across the story of Harvard "professor" Ben Edelman, who went nuclear and threatened multiple civil actions and referr...
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Power Price Info For Consumers "Inadequate," Says Watchdog Report
The Calgary Herald reports today that, "Information available to Albertans on the cost of electricity is inadequate, insufficient, unclear and confusi...
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