“. . I am confident that an appropriately designed end-state and implementation effort will result in the Commonwealth becoming the most competitive marketplace in North America,” said Ron Cerniglia, Director of National Advocacy, Government and Regulatory Affairs for Direct Energy. This prediction was made at the final Pennsylvania Utility Commission (PUC) hearing on the retail Read More…

The energy sphere is a buzz this month with plant closures and job losses due to newly implemented EPA emission standards, specifically the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (Utility MACT) and Cross State Air Pollution Rule or (CSAPR). In all, 33 gigawatts or about 10 percent of United States coal energy capacity is being retired. Read More…

Electric delivery charges are known by many different names: Demand charges, transmission charges, TDSP (Transportation Distribution Service Provider) charges, and poles and wires charges. TDSP charges are the fees associates with servicing and delivering power to your meter from the generation source. The TDSP, sometimes called your Transmission and Distribution Utility (TDU), is the utility Read More…

The 2011 ABACCUS study, an annual assessment of competitive electricity markets, finds Pennsylvania and Illinois are the most improved electricity markets, but they still have a long way to go. ABACCUS ranks commercial and industrial markets as well as residential markets in North America. Illinois ranks second most competitive in the commercial market and seventh Read More…

School districts in Lebanon and Lancaster County have saved over $2 million on their electric bills since 2009. Imagine how many text books $2 million dollars would buy or the number of teachers districts could hire, or even the property taxes hikes that have been prevented. A few months before rate caps expired, the Lancaster-Lebanon Read More…