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PUC Adopts Rate Case Settlement Addressing Retail Supplier Issues, Including Number Of Rate Codes
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The PUC of Ohio adopted, without modification to issues related to the retail market, a stipulation in the natural gas rate case of Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, LLC d/b/a CenterPoint Energy Ohio (CEOH)
With regards to the retail market, the adopted stipulation provides that nothing in Vectren Rates 345, 360, or 375 (generally, these are several large customer tariffs) restricts a customer’s right to choose its
competitive supplier, and adds specific tariff language to such effect
Additionally, the stipulation addresses the number of retail supplier rate codes
The stipulation provides that a choice supplier will be limited to
25 new rates annually, provided, however, that CEOH, "will reasonably and in good faith work with suppliers
to allow them additional new rate codes when situations arise and there is a reasonable need to exceed 25
new rate codes in a given year."
CEOH shall continue its practice to work with suppliers when situations
arise (e.g., taking over an aggregation or acquiring a book of business) and
there is a reasonable need to exceed the 25 new rate codes per year threshold
Additionally, under the adopted settlement, CEOH shall expand the process for suppliers to submit
rate codes to CEOH. The expanded process shall allow suppliers to continue
to utilize the existing Word document process, and shall also include the ability
for suppliers to submit rate codes via an Excel document process.
The stipulation also addresses the designation of Tax-Exempt Status for a customer account which undergoes a change in supplier
CEOH shall update its current process such that the tax-exempt "flag" for individual customer accounts in CEOH’s systems is not reset
when a customer switches suppliers. Suppliers shall still need to undertake the
work to initially submit to CEOH the information that would trigger the flag.
Upon implementation of this change in how tax-exempt flags are treated, the stipulation provides that, "suppliers
shall bear all risk of any error in the tax-exempt flag, and any issues with
customers’ and suppliers’ failures to provide updates to CEOH when the tax-exempt status changes"
In another change required by the stipulation, compared to CEOH's proposed tariff, under CEOH's Daily Index Pricing tariff, CEOH under the stipulation has generally removed Texas Gas, Zone 1; ANR, La; Texas Eastern, ELA; and Panhandle, Tx-Okla as options for the Daily Index Price, leaving the use of Columbia Gas, Appalachia, or REX Zone 3, delivered; except that on a cold-weather OFO day, ANR, La will be utilized in addition to the Columbia Gas, Appalachia and REX Zone 3 indices. The stipulation tariff provides that, "The Company will use the highest index for cash-out under-delivery and the lowest index for over-delivery."
CEOH
has also agreed to respond to inquiries made by retail suppliers when an interstate pipeline
imposes a pipeline allocation penalty on the supplier related to CEOH’s system.
CEOH agrees to use its best efforts to respond to supplier questions on this issue
within two (2) business days and to provide any reasonably requested
responsive data to the supplier’s inquiry within five (5) business days.
Case 24-833-GA-ATA et al.
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