Electricity

Both of our last two blog entries have generated a great deal of interest. Jay Hancock of the Baltimore Sun picked up on our write-up on Constellation Electric’s offer to customers in Pepco’s territory. Below is a link to his article: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/hancock/blog/2010/08/avalon_energy_constellation_of.html You can scroll down to our original article or access it by going…

Electricity markets were deregulated in Pennsylvania over ten years ago. At that time, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission implemented two measures. They allowed electric utilities to recover their “stranded costs” or the cost of investments they had made that they, the utilities, argued would no longer be of value in a deregulated environment. These costs…

A number of people in Pepco’s service territory have asked about Constellation Electric’s (Constellation) fixed price electricity offer. In the commercial world, most customers view the likelihood that energy prices will go up as much greater than the likelihood that energy prices will fall further. I think this makes sense. Energy prices are currently low,…