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Utility Proposes To Charge Shopping Data Center Customers Administrative Costs For Data Center Default Service
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As part of creating a specific default service for data centers, Dayton Power & Light (AES Ohio) has proposed to recover from all data center customers -- including data center customers on competitive retail supply -- the administrative costs of conducting a separate default service auction for data centers
Dayton Power & Light's proposal was contained in an application to implement a market rate offer for the Standard Service Offer (SSO, or default service), per recent legislation
DP&L said that "all data centers", regardless of shopping status, "will share in any costs relating to the separate
Data Center [SSO] auction."
For non-shopping data center customers, such costs will be incorporated into the Standard Offer Rate
For shopping data center customers, the auction administrative costs would be recovered via a flat "per customer" charge (not volumetric or demand based) that would apply to shopping data center customers
Default service for data center customers would reflect hourly PJM prices plus an adder determined in the data center SSO auction, similar to large C&I default service at most of the Pennsylvania utilities. Data center SSO load would be served by wholesale suppliers selected in the auction.
Concerning default service for non-data-center customers under the new market rate offer (MRO), DP&L proposes to continue its current slice-of-system (excluding data centers) SSO competitive bid plan, with twice annual auctions to reduce retail price volatility
A mix of 12-month and 24-month full requirements contracts would be used for the regular SSO, with 24-month contracts generally accounting for about two-thirds of the SSO portfolio
DP&L proposes a schedule for auctions that would cover the full SSO load through the term ending May 31, 2032. Overhanging procurements are proposed for a portion of SSO load beyond May 31, 2032
The specific proposed timing of the SSO auctions and product laddering can be found here
DP&L does propose to use a capacity proxy price in the SSO auctions to the extent a PJM capacity price has not been established for the relevant delivery period
As is current practice, for the regular SSO, all bypassable components would be included in a single Standard Offer Rate
Case 26-0974-EL-SSO
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