Met-Ed/Penelec File Revised Supplier Tariff to take Effect January 15

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January 13, 2011

Met-Ed and Penelec have filed revised supplier coordination tariffs with the Pennsylvania PUC which modify several provisions regarding billing and access to customer information (P-2009-2093053 et. al.).  The revisions reflect an agreement reached with the Retail Energy Supply Association, which has withdrawn a complaint concerning the tariffs.

The new tariffs, which contain the companies' Purchase of Receivables programs, take effect January 15.  POR was not the main subject of the RESA complaint, although one clarification regarding cost recovery was added (see below).

Among other things, the tariffs provide that for rate ready utility consolidated billing, if the supplier uses a "standard rate," then the new rate will be implemented within 14 days.  Standard rates include fixed cents per kWh rates, starting from $0.0500 through $0.1199 per kWh in $0.0001 increments, and up to four decimal place precision. A "percent off" of shopping rates will be available from 1% through 50% off the Price to Compare in one-half percent increments as well.

The revised tariffs clarify that historical interval meter data shall be provided to suppliers at not cost, and will be sent via EDI, or available on a secure portion of the utilities' web sites.  Suppliers are not required to produce customer authorization to obtain customer information, but shall produce such authorization upon request of the utilities.

When requesting historical usage information for accounts equipped with interval meters, the supplier will receive summary usage only, unless detailed interval usage is requested.  Upon enrollment of an account with an interval meter, the supplier will receive summary monthly billing usage only, unless detailed interval billing usage is requested.

The revised tariffs clarify that the utilities will send customers enrolling with a supplier a letter confirming and verifying the customer's choice, but not informing the customer of the rescission period.

If the utilities change the account number for a customer receiving generation service from a supplier that is the result of a utility decision (and not the result of customer action), the utilities shall notify the supplier of the change in account number at the same customer location in sufficient time to permit the supplier to complete the EDI transactions required to maintain the supplier's service to the customer.

Unaccounted for Energy information for the current and prior calendar years will be available to suppliers through a link on the utilities' secure supplier website.

Customer specific PLS and NPLS will be provided to each supplier for the supplier's customers of record no later than 10 days following such data being uploaded into the utilities' SAP system.  Beginning in 2012, the Eligible Customer List and supplier specific "Sync Lists" will contain the new PLS and NPLS values in the first scheduled update of the Eligible Customer List and Sync Lists after the calculations are uploaded into the SAP system.

The utilities will offer a budget billing option to all residential customers billed through rate ready utility consolidated billing.  Budget billing will be available for the customer's total charges including supplier charges.  Suppliers will be paid the actual monthly charges, not the budget bill amount.

Purchase of Receivables
The main tenets of the POR program as filed early last year have not changed.  The non-recourse program will only cover "basic" electric supply services, and include rate schedules: Residential Service RS, Residential Time of Day Service RT, General Service GS-Volunteer Fire Company and Non-Profit Ambulance Service, Rescue Squad and Senior Center Service, General Service GS-Small, General Service GS-Medium, Municipal Service, Borderline Service, Street Lighting Service, Ornamental Street Lighting Service and Outdoor Lighting Service.

The POR program does not include a discount, and is mandatory for amounts billed under utility consolidated billing.

The revised tariffs clarify the utilities' ability to recover certain customer protection costs related to POR from suppliers.  Administrative costs incurred by the utilities associated with consumer protections due to POR, over and above those provided by Chapter 14 of the Public Utility Code and Chapters 55 and 56 of the Commission's regulations, 52 Pa. Code §§ 55.1 and 56.1 et. seq. as currently enacted, will be recovered from suppliers.  Details of these costs and the charges derived there from shall be provided to suppliers at least 60 days in advance of any charge being implemented.

If any such charge is enacted, each supplier serving residential and commercial load will receive a monthly bill with their share of these costs, and any costs will be amortized over a twelve month period.  The bill will be based on each supplier's load weighted share of the total shopping load for the month.

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