How COVID 19 Impacts Utility Consumer Sales

• Ohio PUC order prohibits competitive gas & electricity supply companies from sending sales staff door-to-door during the declared coronavirus emergency.
  • How did this get started in Ohio?
  • formal request filed by the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel
  • OH Consumer Counsel recommended that the PUCO “immediately and indefinitely halt energy marketers’ door-to-door sales so as to protect Ohioans from the coronavirus.”
• Pennsylvania PUC also prohibits door to door energy sales during the declared coronavirus emergency.
• Illinois Commerce Commission similar ban on door to door energy sales.

Utility Dive | Ohio bans door-to-door energy sales over coronavirus concerns, following Illinois, Pennsylvania