Delegate Lopez presented a substitute to expand retail electricity shopping for large users, lowering the threshold from 5 MW to 1 MW, shortening the stay‑out notice to six months and adding clean‑energy compliance for competitive suppliers; after testimony for and against, the committee voted to lay the bill on the table.

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A new report suggests that allowing new retail electricity providers to rapidly deploy distributed batteries and flexible loads could lower electric bills for customers in the PJM grid region, addressing concerns from state governors regarding rising capacity prices. The report, authored by Michael Lee, former CEO of Octopus Energy US, and published by GridLab, recommends