May 10, 2011
D.C. PSC Opens Inquiry into Purchase of Receivables
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May 9, 2011
Constellation Seeks Temporary Budget Billing Waiver in Pennsylvania as it Prepares for Residential Service
Constellation NewEnergy has submitted an expedited petition at the Pennsylvania PUC for a temporary waiver of the PUC rules regarding electric generation supplier budget billing, to the extent they require a supplier to provide budget billing information for its residential customers.
May 4, 2011
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Proton Energy Files Statement of Intent to Offer Prepaid Service in ERCOT
May 3, 2011
Consolidated Edison Reports Consensus Items from Rate Ready Work Group, Changes Delayed Until All Issues Resolved
Consolidated Edison and ESCOs were not able to reach complete consensus on modifications to ConEd's rate ready billing system to permit ESCOs to use rate ready billing for dynamic and demand-based rates (09-E-0428).
May 2, 2011
BGE Files Updated POR Discount Rates for Electric, Gas Service
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed with the Maryland PSC updated Purchase of Receivables discount rates for both electric and gas service, to take effect July 1.
April 28, 2011
Maryland PSC Updates Allegheny POR Discount Rates
The Maryland PSC has established updated Purchase of Receivables discount rates for Allegheny Power.
April 27, 2011
Kane "Can't Say Yet" Approach D.C. PSC Will Take Regarding POR
District of Columbia PSC Chairman Betty Ann Kane "can't say yet" how the Commission will address requests to implement Purchase of Receivables.
April 26, 2011
OPC Suggests Proration of Partial Payments at Columbia Gas to Address Costs of Choice Program
Changing the treatment of uncollectibles at Columbia Gas of Maryland from a Purchase of Receivables program to the proration of partial payments appears to be the best option for addressing choice implementation costs at Columbia, the Office of People's Counsel said in comments.
April 26, 2011
ResCom Error Results in 870 Erroneous Customer Switches Which Cannot be Stopped
ResCom Energy, LLC is taking corrective measures to address what it termed the accidental re-enrollment of 870 former customers, and to hold customers harmless for the error.
April 25, 2011
Md. PSC Staff Recommend Lower Discount Rate at Allegheny
Maryland PSC Staff have recommended lower discount rates for Allegheny Power's Purchase of Receivables program to account for late fee revenues from non-residential customers, and to adjust programming expenses.
April 19, 2011
Allegheny Power Files Updated POR Discount Rates in Maryland
Allegheny Power has filed updated Purchase of Receivables discount rates in Maryland, to be effective for 12 months, effective June 1, 2011.
April 18, 2011
ComEd POR Discount Rate to Remain Uncertain Through Summer
An Illinois Commerce Commission ALJ has continued until June a hearing regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables discount rate, which is being considered by the ICC on rehearing (10-0138).
April 13, 2011
POR to be Implemented at Peoples Natural Gas Under Settlement
A settlement in Peoples Natural Gas' rate case would approve, generally as proposed, Peoples' Purchase of Receivables program (R-2010-2201702).
March 29, 2011
Suppliers Raise Concerns on Operational Issues at Columbia Gas of Pa.
Several Pennsylvania natural gas suppliers have raised concerns with various operational issues at Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, and intend to address the issues in Columbia's pending rate case (R-2010-2215623, [see 1/18] ).
March 28, 2011
Illinois Commission to Further Consider ComEd POR Uncollectibles Rate on Rehearing
The Illinois Commerce Commission has scheduled a status conference for April 13 regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program after granting petitions for rehearing filed by the Retail Energy Supply Association and Illinois Competitive Energy Association (Docket 10-0138).
March 21, 2011
DPUC Intends to Implement Mid-Cycle Enrollments by End of June
The Connecticut DPUC intends to establish a process to execute mid-cycle electric supplier changes on or before June 15, 2011, the Department said in a notice of workshop.
March 11, 2011
WGL Seeks June 2011 Start for POR in Maryland
Given the deferral of action by the Maryland PSC on Washington Gas Light's Purchase of Receivables compliance tariff, as well as other scheduling conflicts, WGL has proposed that it implement POR effective with the June 2011 billing cycle.
March 10, 2011
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ICEA Seeks Rehearing on ComEd Combined POR Uncollectibles Rate
March 9, 2011
NEM Urges D.C. PSC to Implement POR, Cites Synergy with Pepco's Use in Maryland
The introduction of Purchase of Receivables by Pepco in Maryland, "represents an excellent opportunity for Pepco to leverage POR system implementation costs as well as experience," in extending the POR program to the District of Columbia, the National Energy Marketers Association said in comments to…
March 7, 2011
CenterPoint Reports Re-billing Required for 8,000 Premises with AMS Commercial Meters
CenterPoint Energy said this morning that it has identified an issue with a small quantity (approximately 15,000) of advanced metering system Commercial Meters that will require some billing from the January and February billing periods to be retracted and re-billed.
March 4, 2011
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Johnson Controls to Acquire EnergyConnect
March 4, 2011
RG&E Reports Gas Uncollectibles Exceed POR Discount Rate
Rochester Gas & Electric reported that, for the first eight months of 2010, actual uncollectible write-offs for gas customers participating in its Purchase of Receivables program exceeded the discount rate applied to purchased receivables.
March 4, 2011
WGES Says Shorter Amortization of WGL POR Costs Would Jeopardize Supplier Participation
Using anything short of a five-year amortization period for Washington Gas Light's purchase of receivables program costs would create an, "unnecessarily high risk that suppliers active in residential markets would either not enter the residential market or forego using the utility’s billing services…
March 3, 2011
UI, CL&P Say Mid-Cycle Enrollments Not Feasible
United Illuminating and Connecticut Light & Power said that they cannot accommodate mid-cycle supplier enrollments, contrary to the findings contained in a Connecticut DPUC draft decision concerning supplier marketing (10-06-24).
February 28, 2011
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Connecticut Light & Power on Friday filed an updated Purchase of Receivables discount rate of 0.90%. CL&P will use the new factor effective with the purchase of supplier receivables for April 2011. The updated factor reflects the average uncollectibles factor from the past two years, 1.16% in 2009…