Watertown Daily Times — New York state consumers looking for the best utility rates can shop around to buy their gas and electricity from sources other than National Grid. That […]
Residential natural gas customers in the Capital Region received a mailing from the Energy Service Company (ESCO) Vectren Source in recent days urging them to switch their service from Niagara […]
The PSC issued orders in 1999 and 2000 requiring distribution utilities to report data including the number of customers taking service from each ESCO and the number of customers leaving […]
A news story today suggests that energy cost savings may be available from ESCOs. See Con Edison Solutions offering O&R customers lower rates, Middletown Record, Sept. 22, 2009. A closer […]
We have previously commented on the lack of transparency in the retail energy markets spawned by the PSC effort to deregulate the sale of natural gas and electricity. See PSC […]
Background Beginning in 1996, the PSC began to “unbundle” residential natural gas and electric service in order to deregulate the so-called “commodity” portion of service. In the PSC’s “vision” the […]