August 11, 2011
Briefly
New Suppliers Dominate UI Standard Service for 2012
HomeNews By CategoryDefault Service & Pricing
Default Service & Pricing
Narrow these results by state, topic, company or docket — filters stack, and every story shown carries all of them.
August 11, 2011
BGE Says Customers Receiving 2008 SOS Mitigation Should Fund Refund, Not Explicit as to Recovery Under SOS or Distribution Rates
Baltimore Gas and Electric has proposed that the "new" Type II G/GS customers who received SOS rate mitigation in 2008 should fund any refund to other non-residential customers who paid for the mitigation, but was not explicit on whether such new Type II customers should fund the refund through…
August 9, 2011
Massachusetts DPU Approves New Basic Service Rates at WMECO
The Massachusetts DPU approved new basic service rates for medium and large customers at Western Massachusetts Electric Company, for the three month period beginning October 1.
August 9, 2011
Connecticut Draft Would Expand Mandatory Time of Use Generation Rates to All Default Service Customers
The Connecticut PURA issued a draft decision which would require the expansion of mandatory Time of Use (TOU) generation rates to all default service customers at United Illuminating, and which would also expand optional Variable Peak Pricing to all customers (05-06-04RE06).
August 8, 2011
Briefly
BHE Proposal to Fill Large Customer Load Filed Confidentially
August 8, 2011
Mass. DPU Approves New Basic Service Rates at Nstar
The Massachusetts DPU approved new basic service rates for large customers at Nstar, for the three-month period beginning October 1, 2011.
August 8, 2011
PUCO Staff Recommend Maintaining Current Base Generation Rates at AEP Ohio Under Modified Electric Security Plan
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended maintaining current base generation rates at Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power through May 31, 2014 (11-348-EL-SSO et. al.).
July 28, 2011
Maine Posts New Standard Offer Rates for Large Customers at BHE, CMP
The Maine PUC has approved new Standard Offer rates for the medium and large non-residential customer classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric, with the exception of the large non-residential customer class at BHE.
July 28, 2011
Maine PUC Rejects Standard Offer Bids at BHE, Orders Alternative Default Service Plan
The Maine PUC rejected the results from a solicitation for Standard Offer power supplies for the large non-residential class at Bangor Hydro-Electric, citing the "unreasonably high prices bid."
July 28, 2011
N.H. PUC Denies Nonbypassable Generation Charge at PSNH, Order Investigation of POR
The New Hampshire PUC denied Public Service Company of New Hampshire's request for a nonbypassable surcharge to recover certain fixed costs of default service, but did not require the use of a full requirements RFP to procure supplemental power needs or address the question of the divestiture of…
July 22, 2011
PPL Large C&I Optional Fixed Product Again Unsubscribed, Will Not be Offered
PPL will not offer the optional monthly pricing service to large commercial and industrial customers on default service in the next quarter, the Pennsylvania PUC directed in a Secretarial letter.
July 18, 2011
Pike County Light & Power Files New Default Service Plan
Pike County Light & Power has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to maintain its current default service procurement methodology through May 31, 2014.
July 18, 2011
New Default Service Rate Mechanism Approved at Niagara Mohawk
The New York PSC has approved, without major modification, a revised electric default service commodity rate mechanism at Niagara Mohawk (10-E-0050).
June 30, 2011
Briefly
Nstar Files Adder for All Basic Service Rates due to Green Under-recovery
June 30, 2011
PUCO to Consider AEP Ohio Rate Proposal for Customers Returning from Competitive Supply
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has established a procedural schedule to address the proposal of Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power to establish new market-based rate schedules for customers returning to utility-provided generation service after having elected competitive supply and…
June 30, 2011
N.H. PUC Expresses Concern with Cost Impact from Migration in Adopting New PSNH Default Service Rate
The New Hampshire PUC approved a new energy service rate (default service) at Public Service Company of New Hampshire of 8.89 cents per kWh, effective July 1.
June 29, 2011
Mass. DPU Allows Recovery of Nstar Green Under-recovery from Basic Service Customers
The Massachusetts DPU has approved Nstar's proposal to collect an under-recovery in the optional Nstar Green product from all basic service customers over a one-year period (10-161).
June 28, 2011
NEM Asks N.Y. PSC to Inform Customers of Default Service Rate Volatility
The New York PSC should inform customers of the volatility in default service rates, in addition to removing specific default service rate information from the Power to Choose website, the National Energy Marketers Association said in comments to the PSC.
June 24, 2011
Illinois to Examine ComEd Electric Heating Supply Class, Allocation of Demand
The Illinois Commerce Commission has initiated a Section 9-250 investigation to address issues related to supply rate design for residential customers at Commonwealth Edison, and to address the proper allocation of non-coincidental peak demand among the four residential customer classes (Docket…
June 23, 2011
Maryland Industrials Seek Refund of Charges Used to Mitigate Certain Type II SOS Prices in 2008
RG Steel Sparrows Point, LLC and the Maryland Energy Group have petitioned the Maryland PSC to direct Baltimore Gas & Electric to immediately issue refunds to customers who paid higher distribution rates in 2008 in order to mitigate the Type II generation rates of certain commercial customers who…
June 23, 2011
Duke Energy Ohio: Retail Suppliers Embrace Elimination of Capacity Obligation
Competitive retail suppliers in Ohio have "embraced" the removal of their responsibility for a customer's PJM capacity obligation, and assumption of this obligation by Duke Energy Ohio for all distribution customers in its service area, Keith Trent, President of Duke Energy's Commercial Businesses…
June 20, 2011
N.H. PUC Approves Default Service Rates at Unitil
The New Hampshire PUC approved updated default service electric rates for customers at Unitil Energy Systems, Inc…
June 20, 2011
N.H. PUC Approves Default Service Rates at Granite State Electric
The New Hampshire PUC approved updated default service electric rates for customers at Granite State Electric (National Grid).
June 20, 2011
Hourly Pricing Threshold to be Lowered at Orange and Rockland
The threshold for mandatory hourly pricing for default service at Orange & Rockland Utilities will decrease from 500 kW to 300 kW under a stipulation incorporated into a final written order in O&R's New York rate case (10-E-0362).
June 20, 2011
BGE Files Updated Type II SOS Rates
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new Type II SOS rates for the three-month period beginning September 1.