consumer protection

17 Jun

Posted at 17:10h in Brian Greene, community service, consumer protection, COVID-19 pandemic, energy lawyer, retail energy market, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

You’ve probably seen reports on TV, various websites, or billboards warning against telephone scams, including where a caller targets utility customers and threatens to shut off their electricity within hours if they don’t make a payment. We now have a first-hand account from one of...

25 Feb

Posted at 22:18h in Brian Greene, consumer protection, distributed power generation, energy lawyer, retail energy competition, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

The Virginia Senate Commerce & Labor Committee rejected two bills on February 24, 2019 that would have allowed customers of Dominion Virginia Energy and Appalachian Power Company greater access to purchase renewable energy from an entity other than their electric utility. Customers and competitive service...

19 Sep

Posted at 14:55h in Brian Greene, clean energy, consumer protection, energy lawyer, renewable energy, Retail Electric Competition, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) denied Dominion Energy Virginia’s (“Dominion”) July 16, 2019 petitions for declaratory judgment in Case Numbers PUR-2019-00117 and PUR-2019-00118 by Final Order on September 18, 2019. Dominion’s petitions sought to have the Commission standardize “around the clock,” “control of...

21 Aug

Posted at 21:57h in consumer protection, energy lawyer, renewable energy, retail energy competition, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

The Virginia Commission has entered an Order on Enrollments granting motions for injunctive relief filed by Calpine Energy Solutions, LLC and Direct Energy Business, LLC. In the Order, the Commission directed Dominion Energy Virginia to “immediately resume processing enrollment requests under Section A 5 for...

28 Apr

Posted at 21:25h in consumer protection, energy lawyer, Eric Wallace, Maryland, public service commission, retail energy competition, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

In late March, we posted about the Maryland Public Service Commission’s request for comments on a draft “Retail Supplier Load Shaping RFP” in the Public Conference 44 proceeding. In early April, comments were filed by the Maryland Energy Administration, the Retail Energy Supply Association, Direct...

12 Mar

Posted at 15:07h in commission, consumer protection, retail energy competition, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility regulation lawyer

While many political observers were focused on Senate Bill 966, the omnibus utility legislation that was just passed by the General Assembly, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (“Commission” or “SCC”) recently issued an important decision affecting customers’ rights to purchase energy from competitive suppliers. On February 21,...

26 Feb

Posted at 22:44h in consumer protection, Eric Wallace, Maryland, regulation, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="309" class="zemanta-img"] Maryland State House (side) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Last fall, Brian Greene discussed the Maryland Public Service Commission’s retail energy supplier consolidated billing proceeding. The Commission is considering supplier consolidated billing as an additional billing option for Maryland customers, alongside the existing...

18 Sep

Posted at 13:32h in Blair Powell, commission, consumer protection, retail energy market, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility rate lawyer

But There Is A Powerful Dissent On September 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of Virginia issued an opinion affirming the controversial “rate freeze law.” As we previously discussed here and here, a group of industrial customers of Appalachian Power Company (“APCo”) appealed to the Supreme Court of Virginia,...

15 Sep

Posted at 15:28h in clean energy, commission, consumer protection, energy lawyer, renewable energy, retail energy market, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility regulation lawyer

Virginia Commission unanimously rejects utility “Green Tariff” proposal, representing major victory for renewable energy advocates On September 14, 2017, the Virginia State Corporation Commission entered a final order rejecting a renewable energy tariff proposal (“Green Tariff”) filed by Appalachian Power Company, finding that the tariff rates were...

27 Mar

Posted at 21:54h in Brian Greene, commission, consumer protection, Delaware, Maryland, natural gas, public service commission, retail energy market, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, utility regulation lawyer

The March Energy Update features Brian Greene explaining efforts in Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia to improve consumer protection rules that apply to selling commodities direct to consumers in the energy and natural gas markets. https://youtu.be/QeXsyNLv7Ik...