Category: Electricity
Connecticut Electric Broker Suspension Action Starts Preventing Selling Electricity
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Consumer Counsel Mary J. Healey today announced the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) has preliminarily granted their request to suspend the license of an electricity broker and his company for allegedly defrauding a private schools organization of $180,000. In February, Blumenthal and Healey charged that Raymond Sanzone and his [...]
Consumer Frustrated By Energy Plus Refusing To Provide Electric Rates It Charges In Connecticut
Dave P. of West Hartford simply wanted an answer in WRITING as to what rates he would pay if he signed up with this alternate electric marketer. “I have an American Express card with Delta Skymiles. I received something from them on how I could get 7,500 miles if I sign up with Energy Plus [...]
Positive Energy Electric Investor Claims President Violating Laws
A man claiming to be an investor in Positive Energy Electric filed a complaint against the Middlebury-based electric marketing company with the state Attorney General’s office last month asking for an investigation into what he says are illegal and improper acts being committed by its president. According to the document obtained through state Freedom of [...]
Third Positive Energy Electric Salesman Accused Of Falsely Claiming To Represent Utilities
Northeast Utilities has filed a complaint against Positive Energy Electric CEO Joseph Ventura accusing one of his salesman of falsely claiming to represent NU’s Connecticut Light & Power subsidiary. It is the third complaint I have heard of this month accusing Ventura’s salesmen of attempting to either get into a home or solicit on the [...]
CL&P Bills Don’t Make Sense
The following is one of several recent complaints I have had about bills from Connecticut Light & Power, including about unusually high bills from vacant homes people moved from. I forwarded them to the Attorney General and to CL&P. -Matthew & Colleen Harrak We just received our August electric bill and was shocked to find [...]
Ct Regulators Freeze New Applications For Electric Aggregators
Faced with growing complaints against the dozens of independent firms that are selling electricity in Connecticut, state utility regulators this week said they would not license new aggregators until a full review is conducted of the conduct of those already operating. The freeze comes as attention is focused on Positive Energy Electric Supply of Middlebury, [...]
Middletown State Representative Files Criminal Complaint Against Positive Energy Salesman
A state representative living in Middletown has filed a criminal complaint against a Positive Energy Electric salesman accusing him of falsely claiming to be working for Connecticut Light & Power Co. State Rep. Matt Lesser told me today that Positive Energy salesman Michael Matteo came to his apartment Wednesday night claiming to be from CL&P [...]
Positive Energy Electric Being Investigated By Conn Utility Regulators
The Connecticut Department of Public Utility Commission has launched an investigation into an allegation that Positive Energy Electric hid the real owner of its company from them and that it later delayed contracts for customers costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost savings. Philip Dukes, DPUC spokesman, said today that his agency began [...]
Positive Energy Asks State Regulators To Turn Down Request For Its Investigation
A Statement from Positive Energy Electricity Supply, LLC Thursday, August 12, 2010 Positive Energy Electricity Supply, LLC today sent a letter to the State of Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC), opposing Attorney General Blumenthal’s petition to have the DPUC investigate Positive Energy. Below is a statement from Joseph Ventura, President of Positive Energy [...]
Ct Regulators Gave Positive Energy Electric A License Without Knowing Damaging Details Of Real Owner
When Connecticut utility regulators approved a license for Positive Energy to sell electricity to residential and commercial customers last year, they were apparently unaware that the real head of the company had recently been fined for making false statements in a mortgage application. The state banking department in 2008 had issued a finding saying Ventura [...]
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