State

Specified Name

License Requirements Apply to:

Application Posted On

AZ

Electric Service Providers

Any company supplying, marketing or brokering at retail any competitive electric services pursuant to a certificate of convenience and necessity.

electapp.pdf

AR

Energy Service Providers

All energy service providers who sell, broker, market, or aggregate electricity to or for the public for consumption in Arkansas.

www.state.ar.us/psc/Esplic~4.htm

CA

Electric Service Providers

Any company that sells electricity to residential and small commercial customers (maximum peak demand less than 20kW).

esp_registration/esp.htm

CT

Electric Supplier

Any person, including an electric aggregator or participating municipal electric utility that provides electric generation services to end-use customers in Connecticut using the transmission or distribution facilities of an electric distribution company, regardless of whether or not such person takes title to such generation services, but does not include: (1) a municipal electric utility (2) a municipal electric energy cooperative (3) an electric cooperative (4) any other electric utility owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or controlled by any unit of local government or (5) an electric distribution company in its provision of standard offer.

DE

Electric Suppliers

An entity or person including municipal corporations which choose to provide electricity outside their municipal limits, or a broker, marketer or other entity (including public utilities and their affiliates), that sells electricity to retail electric customers, utilizing the transmission and distribution facilities of an electric distribution company.

IL

Alternative Retail Electric Supplier

Any person, corporation, generator, broker, marketer, aggregator or other entity, except an electric utility, that sells electricity to customers.

www.icc.state.il.us/icc/ec/apform.asp

MA

Competitive Suppliers

A retail seller of electricity whose price to a consumer is not regulated and which is not a municipal light department or a distribution company.

/restruct/96-100/appform.pdf

MD

Licensed Electric Suppliers

Suppliers/brokers/billers offering retail electric supply or electric generation services in Maryland.

ME

Competitive Providers

All competitive electricity providers include aggregators, brokers and marketers and any entity selling electricity to the public at retail.

Electric%20Supplier/pucrules.htm

MI

Competitive Electric Service Providers

Companies who sell electricity to retail customers in Michigan, under Retail Open Access tariffs, must obtain this certification.

/restruct/esp/mimktltr.htm

MT

Electricity Suppliers

Any person, including aggregators, market aggregators, brokers, and marketers, offering to sell electricity to retail customers in the state of Montana.

/elecsupp1.htm

NV

Alternative Sellers

A company that has been licensed to provide potentially competitive services of electricity to end-use customers. An affiliate of a vertically integrated electric utility that is licensed to provide potentially competitive services is an alternative seller.

/puc/admin/require.htm

NH

Competitive Electric Suppliers

Companies that sell energy to consumers in a competitive market. They may generate the power themselves or re-sell power generated by someone else. They may also be referred to as competitive energy suppliers, energy service providers, generation companies, power marketers and power brokers.

www.puc.state.nh.us/suppreg.html

NJ

Electric Power Suppliers

A person or an entity that is duly licensed to offer and assume the contractual and legal responsibility to provide electric generation service to retail customers and includes load serving entities, marketers and brokers that offer or provide electric generation to retail customers. The term excludes an electric public utility that provides electric generation service only as a basic generation service.

www.bpu.state.nj.us

OH

Electric Suppliers

Any company that competes to supply electricity including marketers, aggregators, and independent power producers, but excludes electric cooperatives, municipal electric utilities, government aggregators, and billing and collection agents.

Not  posted on the web.

OK

Retail Electric Energy Supplier

Any entity which sells retail electric energy to consumers.

Not posted on the web.

OR

Electricity Service Supplier

A person or entity that offers to sell electricity services to more than one retail electricity consumer; an electric utility selling electricity to retail customers in its own service territory is not an Electric Service Supplier.

/pmemos/spm/021400a.htm

PA

Electric Generation Supplier

A person or corporation, including municipal corporations which choose to provide service outside their municipal limits, brokers and marketers, aggregators or any other entities that sells electricity or related services to end-use customers, utilizing the jurisdictional transmission or distribution facilities of an electric distribution company; or that purchasers, brokers, arranges or markets electricity or related services for sale to end-use customers, utilizing the jurisdictional transmission and distribution facilities of an electric distribution company. The term excludes building or facility owner / operators that manage the internal distribution system serving such a building or facility and that supply electric power.

/licensing.asp

RI

Non-regulated Power Producer

Any company engaging in the business of producing, manufacturing, generating, buying, aggregating, marketing or brokering electricity for sale at wholesale or for retail sale to the public.

TX

Retail Electric Providers

Any person that sells energy to retail customers in the state. A Retail Electric Provider may not own or operate generation assets (and may not be an aggregator).

/21082/21082arc/121099rep.pdf

VT

Retail Service Companies

Any person or company under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Board that is engaged in the sale of electricity to retail consumers in Vermont.

/document/5854/final.htm

Any person that sells or offers to sell a competitive energy service within the Commonwealth. This term includes affiliated competitive service providers, but does not include a party that supplies electricity or natural gas, or both exclusively for its own consumption or the consumption of one or more of its affiliate.