A library of Retail Energy State Reports, News articles, TV shows, Podcasts and Webinars.
State Reports:
Laurel Peltier (May 2026): Caveat Emptor: America’s $48 Billion Competitive Retail Electricity Bust
UC Berkeley Energy Institute Report:Competing for (In)Attention. Pricing Discrimination in Residential Electricity Markets (Using BGE billing data) Nov. 2022
Illinois Attorney General $1.5 billion loss: AG report
Ohio: Analysis of Ohio’s Retail Choice Markets (2026)
Massachusetts Attorney General Report March 2024: $577 million Loss
Massachusetts Attorney General Report 2026: $867 million Loss
Maryland Office of People’s Counsel: Where Do We Go From Here?
Washington DC DOEE (Sep. 2025): Third-Party Suppliers in the District
Massachusetts Attorney General:Are Consumer’s Benefiting from Competition?
Massachusetts AG: MA residents lost $525 million
National Consumer Law Center:Competing to Overcharge Consumers
Connecticut Office of People’s Counsel:Electric Supplier Pricing Report - over and under
2018 Abell Foundation Report:Maryland’s Dysfunctional Residential Energy Supplier Market
Laurel Peltier: Retail Energy’s Greenwashing report and YouTube: How Voluntary Renewable Energy Certificates Turned into 100% Renewable Electricity
National Consumer Law Center Joint Consumer Group comments to FTC pertaining to “Green Guide Revision” and REC greenwashing
News Articles:
Wall Street Journal 2/25/21: Deregulation Aimed to Lower Home Power Bills. For many, It Didn’t
WSJ 3/8/21: Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation
Massachusetts - Green Consumer’s Alliance: Stop Predatory Electric Suppliers Page(articles and data)
Washington City Paper 5/26/26: DC 3rd-Party Accounts Paid 70% more than Pepco’s Electricity
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.
Haas Energy Institute Blog Post: Why are Low-Income Customers Paying Higher Prices in 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 SunGov. Glendening op-ed: Energy Deregulation was a Mistake 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 2/23: Marylanders Overpaid $1 Billion in Excessive Utility Bills. Some Lawmakers and Advocates Are Demanding Answers.
Baltimore Banner 2022:Record High Retail Supplier Complaints Sparks PSC to Maximum Enforcement
Inside Climate News: Why The Poor in Baltimore Face Such Crushing “Energy Burdens”
Utility Dive: Retail “choice”” A bad deal for consumers and the planet
Daily Beast: The Sneaky Green Energy Co. That Pisses Off Climate Do-Gooders
Laurel Peltier: Maryland’s Retail Electricity Predatory Pricing in 10 Photos
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 2016: 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
Maryland Matters: Is Retail Choice Aladdin’s Tale? Sep 2021
YouTubes, TV segments, Podcasts & Webinars:
Maryland Energy Advocates Coalition YouTube:Purchase of Receivables: What is it? Why Revise it?
Mass. NPR WBUR 3-part series:Why a Plan to Drive Down Home Energy Rates Backfired?
Baltimore Fishbowl Article & Podcast (30 mins): No party like 1999, when the seeds of Maryland’s electricity crisis were sown.
Podcast: I Hate Politics: Retail Energy Disaster
Customers First Electric Wire 1 hr. Podcast: Reality of Retail Choice
NPR WYPR Environment in Focus Radio Segment:Green Energy Lack of Transparency
CBS TV Segment: Suppliers Cost More, Not Less
WYPR Midday Radio Segment: Energy Supplier
National PEER webinar 1 hr. : Four state experts-Is retail choice working?
AARP 2024 SB1 Explainer: https://youtu.be/S8UrEoyUBKM?si=af6VPug3xb22rvkK