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N.Y. PSC Grants Utilities Extension To Implement EDI Changes For APP Bill Credits (Changes Needed For ESCOs To Offer Waiver Guaranteed Savings Product)

July 10, 2017

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Copyright 2010-17 EnergyChoiceMatters.com
Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com

The New York PSC has granted Consolidated Edison and Orange and Rockland Utilities a further extension of time to implement EDI changes necessary to accommodate ESCO bill credits to Assistance Program Participant (APP) customers

In a (since superseded) February 2015 order, the PSC ordered that for an ESCO to serve an Assistance Program Participant customer, the ESCO must satisfy at least one of two conditions: the ESCO must guarantee that the customer will pay no more, on an annual basis, than the customer would have paid as a full service customer of the utility, or the ESCO must provide Assistance Program Participants with energy-related value-added products or services.

In the February 2015 order, the PSC noted that, "an ESCO serving customers subject to the price guarantee may have to issue credits."

"Billing changes may be necessary to accommodate these credits," the PSC noted in its February 2015 order, setting deadlines for needed EDI changes to accommodate such bill credits

Since the adoption such February 2015 order, the PSC has since adopted a prohibition on ESCO service to APP customers, except where the ESCO is specifically granted a waiver by the PSC for an approved guaranteed savings product.

With such APP prohibition recently upheld by a New York Supreme Court, the prohibition is scheduled to take effect on July 26, 2017.

While about a dozen ESCOs have sought approval for waivers to offer a guaranteed savings product to APP customers, the PSC has not approved any waiver requests to date

Presumably, while the waiver mechanism was the result of a separate order, one mechanism for implementing guaranteed savings products under any APP waiver will ostensibly be the same APP bill credit mechanism envisioned by the February 2015 order

In prior requests to extend the deadline for implementing the EDI changes, the joint utilities specifically noted that there is, "the potential for APP Credits at a date at least one month following the eventual Prohibition Order implementation date." Accordingly, implementation of the APP bill credit mechanism is essential to having a workable system to allow ESCOs to utilize any granted APP waiver request.

ConEd and O&R had asked for an additional 90 days, from the prior July 3, 2017 deadline, to implement EDI changes needed for the APP credits, in order to properly design and test the new transactions. "This extension is required as the Companies are in the process of finalizing new EDI transactions that will transmit interval data associated with the Companies’ deployment of Automated Meter Infrastructure," ConEd and O&R had said

The PSC granted ConEd and O&R an extension until October 2, 2017 to implement the APP EDI changes

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