|
|
|
|
|
ComEd Proposes VPP With Eligibility Limited To Hourly Priced Utility Supply Customers; ICC Staff Seeks Eligibility Expansion To Customers On "Default" Rate
The following story is brought free of charge to readers by VertexOne, the exclusive EDI provider of EnergyChoiceMatters.com
In an Illinois Commerce Commission proceeding in which Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) has proposed a tariff to offer customer enrollment in a virtual power plant, ICC Staff has sought to expand the eligibility for customer participation (Docket No. 25-0678)
ComEd has proposed that the VPP tariff (Rider VPP) be limited to customers who have both generation and storage resources who are served under ComEd’s Rate BESH, which is an hourly pricing supply service which is optional for residential non-shopping customers (and mandatory for certain large non-shopping customers). However, such BESH customers participating in an "incompatible" program that rewards similar behavior (such as a peak time rebate program or A/C cycling program, etc) would be ineligible for the VPP
VPP participants would be compensated at $10/kWh of nameplate capacity annually. A kilowatt hour of nameplate capacity is calculated by dividing the nameplate capacity by the three-hour daily dispatch window proposed under the VPP program (ICC Staff described this as equaling $10 per one-third of the nameplate capacity of the storage unit).
ComEd said that limiting the VPP to customers on Rate BESH, "would support maximizing the
benefits of the generation plus storage resource and will avoid double compensation of the
proposed VPP program."
Staff said that ComEd's proposed VPP eligibility requirements are overly restrictive.
Staff said that, in 2023, ComEd had 42,353 residential customers on hourly priced default service, and 2,964,203 residential customers on fixed price service.
Staff said that, as such, VPP participation will be challenged unless ComEd can entice fixed price customers to switch to hourly service and convince fixed customers to subject themselves to, "the market volatility that comes with hourly priced service."
Staff said that VPP eligibility should be extended to customers either on "the default rate" or on Rate BESH. While not specific, Staff's recommendation appears to mean the default service rate for ComEd, thus still limiting VPP participation to customers taking supply from ComEd
Staff recommended that VPP eligibility be expanded to allow customers with storage only, rather than the proposed requirement of needing both generation and storage
In the same application, ComEd has also proposed Rider CSS – Community Solar
Plus Storage Program (Rider CSS) and Rider BYODLR – Bring Your Own Device Load Reduction Program (Rider BYODLR)
Docket 25-0678
ADVERTISEMENT Copyright 2025 EnergyChoiceMatters.com. Unauthorized copying, retransmission, or republication
prohibited. You are not permitted to copy any work or text of EnergyChoiceMatters.com without the separate and express written consent of EnergyChoiceMatters.com
November 14, 2025
Email This Story
Copyright 2025 EnergyChoiceMatters.com
Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
NEW Jobs on RetailEnergyJobs.com:
• NEW -- Account Executive (Commercial Retail Energy)
|
|
|
|
|