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New Data Updates and Supports Groundbreaking Research by the Late Dr. Phil O’Connor (Harrisburg, PA) September 26, 2019 – The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), the nation’s leading trade association representing competitive retail energy suppliers, today released new data that reveals a growing cost disparity between monopoly and competitive states. The new data, which is an...

Read the full article here. The Retail Energy Supply Association published an update to prior research comparing electric rates in states with electric choice and monopoly states, to reflect data through 2018 RESA’s report said that, using EIA all-in data (generation and distribution), the residential nominal annual “weighted” average electric price in 35 monopoly states...

Retail Energy Supply Association Announces Addition of New Member Company Freepoint Energy Solutions (Harrisburg, PA) March 25, 2019 – The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), the nation’s leading trade association representing competitive retail energy suppliers, today announced the addition of Freepoint Energy Solutions as the organization’s newest member. Freepoint Energy Solutions, which is headquartered in Houston, is a licensed energy...

Read the full article here. As regulators and advocacy groups call for Connecticut to revisit its decision to deregulate its energy market, third-party suppliers say they have helped customers save money. In particular, Chris Kallaher, director of government and regulatory affairs for Direct Energy, said the presence of third-party energy suppliers has forced Eversource and United...

Read the full article here. Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Electricity prices in many states with retail choice are high, but RESA’s analysis concludes they are moving lower, as consumers reap the benefits of cheap natural gas and lower electricity demand. But the same cannot be said for states with monopoly utility structures. “In the last...

Consumers in Monopoly States Paying the Price for Unprecedented Market Conditions (Harrisburg, PA) February 11, 2019 -The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), the nation’s leading trade association representing competitive retail energy suppliers, today released new research on electricity price trends that reveals an eye-opening cost disparity between monopoly and competitive states. Researchers have discovered that, while the electricity...

(Harrisburg, PA) February 6, 2019 – The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), the nation’s leading trade association representing competitive retail energy suppliers, today announced the election of its new officers and state chairs for 2019. The group, which will now make up the organization’s executive committee, was confirmed during RESA’s annual board meeting in December and will each...

Read the full article here. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., state Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz and a number of consumer groups are calling for an end to the third-party residential electric market. The market, which debuted in Connecticut in 2000, is part of a larger electric utility deregulation that proponents promised would yield savings...

Research Calls into Question Recent Claims by the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel (Harrisburg, PA) February 4, 2019 – Connecticut residential energy customers could have saved more than $14 million dollars in just the first month of 2019 and received greater value for their energy dollars such as renewable energy, fixed price plans, and loyalty rewards...

Independent Study Finds Electric Suppliers Could Have Saved Maryland Consumers More Than $203 Million in 2018 (BALTIMORE) January 22, 2019 – The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA), the nation’s leading trade association representing competitive retail energy suppliers, today released an analysis that calls into question recent reports by the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC) and The Abell...