Dethroned

What a difference a year makes. Over the last 12 months, the pure energy merchants have been dethroned as gas market leaders by the producers — big time. Third quarter gas sales volumes show that producers are responsible for 72% of gas sales from the top 10 gas sellers in North America. Not one pure energy merchant remains in the top 10, compared to last year’s third quarter when marketers represented nearly 40% of the gas sales of the top 10 and producers represented only 18%.

Pennsylvania faces the very real threat of being dethroned as the nation’s leading model for electricity choice because skyrocketing wholesale power prices are pushing state customers to abandon electric choice in favor of default providers, according to the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. As Pennsylvania stumbles on the road to electric deregulation, Texas, Maine and New York are all making impressive strides in promoting sustainable competition among electricity providers, the center said.