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January 15, 2014
Recovering the costs of a tool allowing retail electric suppliers, with customer authorization, to look-up an account number remotely, in order to facilitate shopping decisions outside of the home, should not be done through an "anti-competitive" discount to the purchase of receivables discount rate…
January 3, 2014
PECO has filed a compliance plan to implement a program allowing retail electric suppliers, with customer authorization, to remotely access customer account numbers to facilitate enrollment in environments in which the customer may not have their bill.
December 26, 2013
PECO has filed a compliance plan to implement seamless move and switch-at-connect functionality, and in such plan included a proposal to recover costs of the programs.
December 23, 2013
AEP Ohio has sought approval to offer a purchase of receivables program, as part of its electric security plan proposal for the period 2015-2018
December 16, 2013
National Grid and retail suppliers have reached a consensus start date for implementing purchase of receivables in National Grid's Massachusetts electric service territories.
December 11, 2013
Nstar and Western Massachusetts Electric Co. have filed with the Massachusetts DPU revised purchase of receivables compliance plans which, with the exception of the commencement date at Nstar, are represented to reflect consensus among the utility and retail suppliers.
December 4, 2013
In comments with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Direct Energy has "encourage[d]" Dayton Power & Light to adopt several changes in its bill design.
November 26, 2013
The New Jersey BPU has provided an incentive for electric and gas utilities to keep customers in arrears on utility consolidated billing, and therefore in the POR program, instead of dropping customers to dual billing, as is standard practice.
November 13, 2013
Systrum Energy said that it has become the first retail natural gas supplier to offer residential service at Elizabethtown Gas in New Jersey billed on an Elizabethtown Gas consolidated bill.
October 23, 2013
After an October 8 technical conference failed to reach a consensus, the Massachusetts DPU has set forth a schedule for additional briefing of remaining outstanding issues regarding the implementation of electric purchase of receivables.
October 21, 2013
Delmarva Power & Light informed the Maryland PSC of its intent to cancel the enrollment of 69 customers for which it received an enrollment transaction from Starion Energy but which Starion said were erroneous.
October 16, 2013
Retail electric suppliers have offered proposals to expeditiously improve the payment hierarchy for utility consolidated billing at the New Hampshire utilities.
October 16, 2013
The Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, as part of a legislatively prescribed review, has sought stakeholder comment on the use of supplier consolidated billing by electric suppliers, and issued specific questions concerning electric suppliers' collection of supplier and distribution…
October 11, 2013
Orange & Rockland has filed new purchase of receivables discount rates for electric and gas service, effective November 1.
September 26, 2013
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, d/b/a Unitil, has updated the Massachusetts DPU on the status of purchase of receivables implementation, including a more detailed description of the mechanics to implement POR prior to a new CIS.
September 23, 2013
Pepco has filed with the District of Columbia PSC discount rates for Pepco's new purchase of receivables program, which Pepco is scheduled to implement on October 7, 2013.
September 9, 2013
Ameren has filed tariff revisions to modify its electric purchase of receivables discount rate due to an error in the prior calculation.
September 6, 2013
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened a proceeding to address access to electric customer usage data under various scenarios, especially due to statutory language concerning the privacy of customer data in AMI pilots.
September 6, 2013
An unopposed settlement would implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
September 3, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has formally opened, and assigned Docket IR 13-244 to, an investigation into payment hierarchy between competitive energy suppliers and electric and natural gas distribution utilities.
September 3, 2013
Consolidated Edison should be required to modify its utility consolidated billing practices and introduce new load profiles to enable the offering of Time of Use (TOU) rates from competitive retail suppliers in the absence of interval meters for all customers, the Retail Energy Supply Association…
August 13, 2013
The Connecticut PURA has opened several dockets relating to retail electric suppliers as a result of Section 10 of Public Act 13-119, An Act Concerning the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Whistleblower Protection, the Purchased Gas Adjustment Clause, Electric Supplier Disclosure Requirements…
August 2, 2013
The Illinois Commerce Commission has denied a purchase of receivables program at Nicor Gas.
July 18, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC published a written order directing electric utilities to submit compliance plans for the development of a secure web portal allowing customers to access their account numbers remotely (to enable shopping in situations where the customer does not have their bill), and urged…
July 18, 2013
Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation (MGUC) petitioned the Michigan PSC for a waiver of the PSC's billing rules to allow it to collect from shopping customers unrecovered costs authorized under the reservation charge, due to an error in collection of the charge.
