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Retail Suppliers Note Lack Of Clarity In Rate Case Order, Concerning Major POR Program
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The Retail Energy Supply
Association
('RESA') and Interstate Gas Supply, LLC ('IGS') sought rehearing regarding the PUC of Ohio's recent rate case order at Enbridge Gas Ohio (East Ohio Gas, or EOG, and f/k/a Dominion East Ohio) due to the lack of clarity concerning the disposition of provisions related to EOG's purchase of receivable program
As first reported by ECM, PUCO Staff had originally, "recommend[ed] a discount rate be applied to competitive suppliers to offset," uncollectible and other costs of EOG's purchase of receivables (POR) program.
See more background here
As reported by ECM, PUCO in its rate case order did not specifically address the POR program or related issues
PUCO did adopt Staff's "recommendations regarding service quality," but due to differences in wording (a Staff recommendation instead included a section on "service monitoring and enforcement") as well as varying pagination references, it was unclear to ECM how PUCO disposed of the POR issue in such written rate case order
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RESA and IGS said in their filing that, "the Opinion and Order adopts Staff’s 'recommendations regarding service quality'
without clearly identifying which of the multiple recommendations it intends to adopt."
"The
Opinion and Order identifies and discusses only a portion of the customer service audit
recommendations made in the Staff Report and Staff testimony and yet concludes that it is adopting
Staff’s 'service quality' recommendations, which could be read to be all service quality
recommendations including those not even described or addressed in the Opinion and Order," RESA and IGS said
"The
Commission should grant rehearing to clarify it is adopting only those Staff recommendations
directly discussed and not rejected in the 'Service Quality' section of the decision and also
affirmatively state that other Staff recommendations addressed in the Staff Report and in Staff
testimony are not adopted (specifically, the Commission is not adopting the recommendations
addressing the purchase of receivables program)," RESA and IGS said
RESA and IGS also sought rehearing of PUCO's decision that EOG should annually educate vacillating customers (whose usage hovers around the threshold for large vs. non-large service classification) about the availability of alternative tariffs, including the availability, if the customer drops below the threshold, of the default Standard Choice Offer. As more fully discussed in our prior story, RESA and IGS, at a minimum, sought what RESA & IGS view as improvements in the educational materials. See more details here
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July 28, 2025
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Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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