News Articles:

Wall Street Journal 2/25/21: Deregulation Aimed to Lower Home Power Bills. For many, It Didn’t.

Maryland Matters: 12/23 Get Ready for a High Stakes Legislative Debate Over Retail Energy Deregulation

WSJ 3/8/21: Are You Overpaying for Electricity? Here’s How to Find out.

WSJ 3/8/21: Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation

Energy Institute Blog Post: Why are Low-Income Customers Paying Higher Prices in  for Retail Choice Markets? Nov. 2022

Boston Globe 4/16/24 Third-party electricity suppliers promise big savings. AG’s report tells another story.

Baltimore Sun: 3/23 Complaints on Rise in Maryland

Inside Climate News: 9/23 Laurel Peltier Took on Multi-Million Dollar Private Energy Companies Scamming Baltimore’s Low-Income Households, One Victim at a Time

Baltimore Sun Gov. Glendening op-ed: Energy Deregulation ws a aMistake in MD.

Baltimore Fishbowl 12/21: Energy supplier choice aimed to lower Marylanders’ bills, but some customers are left feeling powerless.

WSJ 8-minute video: Why Your Home Energy Bills May Be Higher than your Neighbor’s

Baltimore Sun: Switching Suppliers Means Low-Income Households Losing

Inside Climate News:  Marylanders Overpaid $1 Billion in Excessive Utility Bills. Some Lawmakers and Advocates Are Demanding Answers. Feb 2023

Baltimore Banner: Record High Retail Supplier Complaints Sparks PSC to Maximum Enforcement

Inside Climate News: Why The Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing “Energy Burdens”

Inside Climate News: MD Thought Deregulating Energy Would Lower Costs. Instead It’s Cost Residents Millions More.

Boston Globe 4/1/21: AG Finds Households Losing Millions By Switching Electricity Suppliers

Village Voice: Why Does Albany Allow These Scammers?

Baltimore Sun Editorial: MD Must Crack Down on Deceptive Energy Suppliers

Baltimore Fishbowl: 2016, again in 2017, and again in 2018

Crain’s Daily Business: CleanChoice, Illinois Resists Reform

Bangor Daily News: Mainers Lost $77 million

Chicago Reporter: Targeting Low-Income

Pittsburg Gazette: Utilities Discontinue Suppliers for Hardship Accounts

Laurel Peltier Maryland Matters Commentary: Is Retail Choice Aladdin’s Tale? Sep 2021

State Reports

UC Berkeley Energy Institute Report: Competing for (In)Attention.  Pricing Discrimination in Residential Electricity Markets (Using BGE billing data) Nov. 2022

MASS. AG Report 3/24: $577 million Loss

National PEER webinar: Four state experts-Is retail choice working?

MD Office of People’s Counsel: Where Do We Go From Here?

Massachusetts Attorney General: Are Consumer’s Benefiting from Competition?

Massachusetts AG: MA residents lost $525 million

National Consumer Law Center: Competing to Overcharge Consumers

CT Office of People’s Counsel: Electric Supplier Pricing Report - over and under

Abell Foundation Report: Maryland’s Dysfunctional Residential Energy Supplier Market

GreenLaurel: Retail Energy’s Greenwashing report and YouTube: How Voluntary Renewable Energy Certificates Turned into 100% Renewable Electricity

NCLC Joint Consumer Group comments to FTC pertaining to “Green Guide Revision” and REC greenwashing

TV & Podcasts

Mass. NPR WBUR 3-part series: Why a Plan to Drive Down Home Energy Rates Backfired?

Podcast: I Hate Politics: Retail Energy Disaster

Customers First Electric Wire: Reality of Retail Choice

NPR WYPR Environment in Focus: Green Energy Lack of Transparency

CBS: Suppliers Cost More, Not Less

WYPR Midday: Energy Supplier