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February 28, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities urged the Pennsylvania PUC to reject the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence's (PCADV) request that the PUC require PPL to change its current practices regarding the release of customer information, and allow customers to withhold all information from being shared…
February 25, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has clarified its amendatory order on Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, confirming that administrative costs will not be recovered twice, and affirming that a single discount rate shall be applied to all customer classes (Docket 10-0138).
February 21, 2011
A draft Connecticut DPUC decision would require electric distribution companies (EDCs) to list the applicable Standard Service rate on all utility bills, even utility consolidated bills with supplier charges, and would also require EDCs and suppliers to complete customer enrollments and pricing…
February 17, 2011
Pennsylvania electric generation suppliers, "are exempt from the budget billing obligation when offering dynamically-priced [including monthly variable] products to residential customers," the Pennsylvania PUC said in a Secretarial letter yesterday (M-2009-2082042).
February 17, 2011
Consistent with an earlier default service plan settlement, Penn Power submitted a revised supplier coordination tariff at the Pennsylvania PUC to implement a non-recourse Purchase of Receivables program (P-2010-2157862).
February 16, 2011
Illinois Commerce Commission Staff have filed an emergency motion for clarification of the Commission's February 9 Amendatory Order regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, asking that the current discount rate continue to apply until the ICC clarifies several conflicting…
February 11, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued an amendatory order on Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, which establishes a new discount rate, but also appears to result in the double collection of administrative costs, and creates additional confusion on the uncollectibles factor…
February 4, 2011
The joint New York utilities have opposed a rehearing request filed by the Small Customer Marketer Coalition related to the New York PSC's recent order that ESCOs may only offer prepaid service when the ESCO is the billing party (98-M-1343).
January 25, 2011
The New York PSC will allow Niagara Mohawk, for electric service, to recalculate on a monthly basis the commodity cost component of the merchant function charge and the Purchase Of Receivables discount, using monthly commodity-related uncollectible pricing data (10-E-0050).
January 25, 2011
Spark Energy has started offering residential electric service at Commonwealth Edison.
January 20, 2011
Purchase of Receivables at Washington Gas Light in Maryland will be delayed until March 1, 2011 at the earliest, after the Maryland PSC took WGL's compliance filing under advisement.
January 19, 2011
Several Texas retail electric providers and Transmission and Distribution Service Providers have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to address the REPs' concerns of waiting until the next cycle billing date to receive meter tampering discretionary charges and rebills.
January 17, 2011
Clean Currents has submitted a request to the District of Columbia PSC asking that the PSC implement a Purchase of Receivables program for Pepco.
January 13, 2011
Met-Ed and Penelec have filed revised supplier coordination tariffs with the Pennsylvania PUC which modify several provisions regarding billing and access to customer information (P-2009-2093053 et. al.). The revisions reflect an agreement reached with the Retail Energy Supply Association, which has…
January 11, 2011
The Maryland PSC has rejected as unsupported a largely consensus working group report which would have governed the use of standard electronic transactions between natural gas local distribution companies and competitive suppliers, per COMAR 20.59.
January 11, 2011
West Penn Power (Allegheny) has filed a revised supplier coordination tariff to, among other things, replace the previously proposed flat monthly fee for utility consolidated billing with a Purchase of Receivables discount rate of 0.16% (R-2010-2207938).
January 7, 2011
The Ontario Energy Board has issued guidance for electricity retailers issuing supplier consolidated bills regarding the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit (OCEB), which provides a 10% reduction in the electric bills paid by all mass market customers regardless of supplier.
December 22, 2010
ComEd has filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission tariff sheets to implement the ICC's recent POR order, as first reported in Matters ( 12/16 & 12/17 ).
December 22, 2010
Washington Gas Light has filed with the Maryland PSC updated Purchase of Receivables discount rates for its pending POR compliance plan.
December 17, 2010
As first reported in Matters' live blog yesterday, the Pennsylvania PUC has adopted two exceptions to the all-in/all-out requirement for residential customers in PPL Electric's Purchase of Receivables program (R-2010-2161694).
December 17, 2010
A written order on Commonwealth Edison's purchase of receivables program holds that uncollectible costs shall be determined by Rider UF.
December 16, 2010
As first reported in our live blog yesterday, the Illinois Commerce Commission has approved tariffs to institute utility consolidated billing and Purchase of Receivables at Commonwealth Edison.
December 14, 2010
ICC to Consider ComEd POR Case Wednesday The Illinois Commerce Commission will further consider Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables tariff filing (Docket 10-0138) at its December 15 Bench Session. EnergyChoiceMatters.com will provide live blogging of the meeting . The filed tariff's…
December 14, 2010
Maryland PSC Staff have recommended deferring action on Baltimore Gas & Electric's revised electric Purchase of Receivables tariff, addressing tax issues, so that a working group may address several Staff concerns. Staff is concerned that the filed tariff could allow BGE to earn an unintended profit…
December 13, 2010
Allegheny Power has filed an annual tariff update containing a lower residential Purchase of Receivables discount rate in Maryland, but which also includes higher rates for commercial customers.
