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May 28, 2025
The Maryland PSC, as part of approving several updates in Baltimore Gas & Electric's SOS electricity rates, approved a change in BGE's "energy rate", for the period June 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025, due to updated capacity costs
May 21, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC has issued an order maintaining the status quo for electricity default service reconciliations at Unitil
May 20, 2025
Consumer Counsel Supports Recommendation That SOS Admin. Charge Be Tied To Or Verified Against Competitive Third-Party Supply Pricing, To Ensure Adder Does Not Undercut Competition
May 16, 2025
NJ Gov. Directs BPU To Open Proceeding On Resource Adequacy
Public Service Electric and Gas Company's (PSE&G) proposal for residential electric bill cost mitigation, due to increases in the New Jersey electric Basic Generation Service rates, would provide relief to customers through distribution-side bill credits applied to all residential customer bills…
May 16, 2025
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period July 2025 through December 2025, and Last Resort Service rates for the period July 2025 through September 2025
May 16, 2025
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed the winning retail suppliers selected in auctions to serve the load of electricity Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers, for the period June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026
May 16, 2025
NSTAR d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Eastern Massachusetts service territory, for the period August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026 for mass market customers, and for the period August 1, 2025 to October 31, 2025 for large customers
May 14, 2025
Utility Will Educate Default Service Customers About Rate Increases Due To PJM Capacity Price Spikes
The PUC of Ohio has approved without modification a settlement among several major parties in Duke Energy Ohio's electric security plan proceeding, under which Duke will implement limited changes in the default service auctions in order to reduce risk premiums
May 13, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC has deferred, to a future phase of Public Service of New Hampshire's 2025 default service proceeding (DE 25-017), consideration of modifying the currently bypassable default service reconciliation factor to become nonbypassable
May 1, 2025
Duke Energy Ohio has updated its electric Standard Service Offer retail energy (RE) and retail capacity (RC) riders for the period June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026
April 30, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed various updates to the components of its electricity SOS rates in Maryland
April 29, 2025
Duquesne Light has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC an update to the default service supply rate, or supply charge, to be effective for various periods starting June 1, 2025
April 29, 2025
PPL Electric has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC updates to its Generation Supply Charge (GSC) – 1 and its Transmission Service Charge (TSC), which together make up the Price to Compare
April 23, 2025
Gov. Says State Will Do "Everything In Our Power" To Offer Rate Relief
The New Jersey BPU has ordered the state's electric utilities to, "file petitions with the Board providing distribution side proposals to mitigate bill impacts to residential customers during high usage summer months."
April 22, 2025
SCANA Energy Marketing, LLC Regulated Division has petitioned the Georgia PSC to extend for an additional year the supplier's status as the AGL market's Regulated Provider
April 22, 2025
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new PTC Default rates to be in effect for the six-month period June 1, 2025 through November 30, 2025
April 18, 2025
Commonwealth Edison has filed updated indicative Purchased Electricity Charges (PECs) for default service customers for the period starting June 1, 2025
April 16, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC approved without modification Public Service of New Hampshire's (Eversource) proposal to serve 50% of its small customer group default service load from ISO New England market purchases, on a self-serve basis, for the August 2025 to January 2026 period
April 16, 2025
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2025
April 16, 2025
About $6.5 million in under-recovered default service costs for the large customer class at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource or the "Company"), the growth of which helped jump start consideration of changes to default service reconciliations, including making such reconciliations…
April 15, 2025
A consultant retained by Pepco, at the direction of the District of Columbia PSC, to conduct an audit of the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge, has recommended that the current bypassable Adder included in the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge at Pepco should be, "tied more closely to competitive third-party…
April 11, 2025
At Unitil, the New Hampshire PUC approved increasing the amount of default service electricity supplies self-served from the ISO New England real-time market to 50% for Non-G1 (mass market) customers, for the period August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026
April 10, 2025
PUC Approves New Utility Time Of Use Generation Rate Option For Non-Shopping Customers
As the Pennsylvania PUC approved without modification a generally available new Time of Use generation rate offering from Duquesne Light, Pennsylvania PUC Chair Stephen DeFrank stated, "I think we should explore any and all options to help customers protect themselves from rising energy prices."
April 2, 2025
A Request for Proposals process to procure electric supplies for Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers at the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities, for a term of June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026, failed to attract any conforming bids
March 31, 2025
Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC has filed in Pennsylvania its customary quarterly adjustment to the natural gas commodity supply cost, which also results in a higher merchant function charge, given the operation of how the MFC is calculated
