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October 27, 2011
During an earnings call yesterday, Exelon CEO John Rowe continued a victory lap on recent, yet unapproved, settlements at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio that would require both utilities to begin procuring 100% of capacity for customers through the Reliability Pricing Model in 2015.
October 26, 2011
Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed) and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec) have posted results from their recent RFP for full requirements commercial default service supply, and an RFP for residential block energy supply for those two utilities as well as Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn Power…
October 25, 2011
A settlement among most parties to establish Duke Energy Ohio's procurement and pricing of the Standard Service Offer (SSO) for the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015 forces certain retail suppliers to subsidize their competitors, by jettisoning an innovative proposal to remove capacity…
October 24, 2011
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has asked the PSC to expand the current capacity RFP to include other types of generation aside from gas-fired assets, and to allow utility-owned generation to submit proposals (9214, 9/30 )
October 20, 2011
Liberty Power Selected to Supply Philly Buying Power
October 19, 2011
Public Service Company of New Hampshire has filed updated projections of its 2012 energy (default) service rate, and the alternative default energy service rate, to reflect costs of the Merrimack Scrubber Project which are now known.
October 19, 2011
Non-advocate Staff of the New Hampshire PUC have opposed Public Service Company of New Hampshire's request to place energy supply-related costs in distribution rates, in order to mitigate above-market PPA costs, but Non-advocate Staff did offer some alternatives which would allow nonbypassable cost…
October 19, 2011
In response to comments filed at the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Power Agency has modified its proposed default service plan, including the provisions related to long-term capacity, RECs, and clean coal contracting.
October 18, 2011
The Ontario Energy Board has issued new Regulated Price Plan (RPP) electricity commodity prices for the period November 1, 2011 through April 30, 2012.
October 17, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC has tentatively ordered the electric distribution companies (EDCs) to consider semi-annual electric default service rate adjustments for mass market customers rather than the current quarterly adjustments (I-2011-2237952).
October 14, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC will issue for comment intermediate recommendations from the PUC's Office of Competitive Markets Oversight (OCMO) that are intended to serve as guidance to the electric distribution companies (EDCs) in developing the format and structure of their upcoming default service plans.
October 12, 2011
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company (Unitil) has filed new default service rates for the period beginning December 1, 2011.
October 11, 2011
PECO has posted estimated Price to Compare information for the period January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012.
October 5, 2011
PECO has posted results from its fall 2011 solicitation for a portion of electric default service requirements.
October 4, 2011
Freedom Energy Logistics Procuring BHE Large Customer Standard Offer Supplies
October 4, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will allow Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power to continue charging bypassable costs of certain environmental investments, but ruled that the AEP Ohio utilities have not justified recovery of POLR charges at the level reflected in their existing rates.
October 3, 2011
Two Maine hearing examiners have recommended recovering costs from new long-term contracts using the method used for stranded costs, with the contracts' output disposed of in a similar manner (2011-222).
September 30, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has, apparently, revised the Price to Compare for residential non-space heating customers at Commonwealth Edison for the period October 2011 through May 2012. The Price to Compare page on Plug In Illinois, as well as an updated news release, now lists the ComEd Price…
September 30, 2011
The Maine PUC has set a Standard Offer price for the Bangor Hydro-Electric large non-residential customer class for the month of October 2011.
September 29, 2011
Reversing a draft order, the Connecticut PURA has elected to not expand mandatory Time of Use generation rates to all default service customers at United Illuminating as originally proposed.
September 29, 2011
The Maryland PSC approved without modification Baltimore Gas & Electric's tariff rider (Rider 29) to recover from Schedule G and GS Type II SOS customers the SOS costs which should have been collected in 2008, but which were mitigated by the Maryland PSC in an action later determined to be unlawful…
September 29, 2011
The Illinois Power Agency has submitted its proposed default service procurement plan for the period June 2012 through May 2017 which retains the general parameters of past plans for energy requirements, but adds a carve-out for distributed solar and potentially clean coal (ICC Docket 11-0660).
September 28, 2011
Public Service of New Hampshire has submitted information to support its next default service rate change effective January 1, 2012.
September 28, 2011
Public Service of New Hampshire has filed a proposal to implement an alternative default service rate for customers returning to PSNH after taking service from a competitive supplier.
September 28, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities has filed to revise its Time of Use (TOU) generation rate design, with a proposed effective date of March 1, 2012. PPL also proposed including prior TOU under-collections in its sought nonbypassable rider.
