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April 6, 2011
Penn Power has posted the results from its March procurement of fixed block energy supply to serve a portion of residential default service. The products procured were 25 MW monthly blocks of On-Peak and Off-Peak energy delivered to the Penn Power zone, within the delivery period of June 1, 2011…
April 5, 2011
The Maryland PSC, from the bench, directed the utilities to propose modifications to the current SOS price comparison information language established in June in Case 9228.
April 4, 2011
Met-Ed, Penelec, and Penn Power have announced results from their March solicitation for full requirements default service electric supplies, and have also posted sample calculations for default service rates which incorporate the results of the auctions held so far.
April 1, 2011
The Rhode Island PUC has approved updated SOS rates for Narragansett Electric (National Grid), for various periods beginning April 1, 2011.
March 29, 2011
The Massachusetts DPU has approved updated basic service electric rates for all customer classes at National Grid.
March 28, 2011
Existing customers at Ameren with peak demands of at least 150 kW and under 400 kW will be moved to hourly default service pricing effective at the end of the April 2014 monthly billing period, after the Illinois Commerce Commission declared those customers to be competitively served.
March 28, 2011
The Retail Energy Supply Association has submitted a petition to the New York PSC to eliminate the posting of electric default service rates on New York's Power to Choose website, citing the, "confusing, inaccurate and misleading" reporting of utility commodity pricing.
March 23, 2011
The New Hampshire PUC approved default service procurements at Granite State Electric (National Grid) which will establish Large Customer rates for the three-month period beginning May 1, 2011, and the rate for Small Customers for the six month period beginning May 1, 2011.
March 22, 2011
The New Hampshire PUC approved default service procurements at Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. which will establish commercial and industrial (G1) rates for the three-month period beginning May 1, 2011, and, when combined with prior procurements, the rate for small commercial and residential (non-G1)…
March 22, 2011
Maryland utilities are using different approaches for the treatment of bypassable reconciliation factors in calculating weighted average SOS prices disclosed to customers, the Office of People's Counsel said in supplemental comments to the PSC.
March 18, 2011
A proposed Maryland order which would completely eliminate the bypassable Standard Offer Service administrative charge at Pepco and Delmarva is "contrary to law" and "not supported by the record evidence," Maryland PSC Staff said in a memorandum on appeal to the Commission (Case 9226 & 9232).
March 16, 2011
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio reported a corrected list of winning bidders in the Columbia SSO auction as follows: BP Energy Company; Constellation New Energy-Gas Division; Noble Americas Gas & Power Corp.; DTE Energy Trading, Inc.; Energy America, LLC (Direct Energy); NextEra…
March 16, 2011
"For the [retail electric] industry to be basing its survival on whether or not we enable the procurers of Standard Service power to have various tools [such as managed portfolios] suggests that the reason you're here is solely to offer a commodity, [and] to not grow your value in other ways,"…
March 15, 2011
"[A]s long as default service exists in its current form, we are never going to see robust shopping in the Commonwealth [of Pennsylvania]," PUC Chairman Robert Powelson said in prepared testimony before the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee, which was addressing the PUC's budget.
March 14, 2011
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Staff disclosed that winning bidders in the recent Columbia Gas Standard Service Offer auction were as follows: BP Energy Company; Constellation NewEnergy-Gas Division; Delta Energy LLC; DTE Energy Trading, Inc.; Energy America, LLC (Direct Energy); NextEra Energy…
March 11, 2011
Niagara Mohawk has filed its proposed new rate mechanism for electric commodity pricing for default service customers with the New York PSC, which is substantially similar to NiMo's original proposal filed in January 2010 as part of a rate case (see 2/1/10)
March 10, 2011
The Illinois Citizens Utility Board yesterday, in a widely distributed press release, informed customers considering choosing an alternative retail electric supplier that, "ComEd's price, however, is set to drop in June."
March 9, 2011
PECO informed the Pennsylvania PUC that it is revising the schedule for its Spring 2011 RFP for default service supply to accelerate the bid date from late May to early May (P-2008-2062739).
March 8, 2011
Parties Appeal Proposed Order Which Would Eliminate Bypassable SOS Admin. Charge at Pepco, Delmarva
March 8, 2011
Allegheny Power in Maryland is currently including two weighted average prices of SOS service on its residential bills, but has not yet included recently accepted actual SOS rates through May 31, 2012, according to materials submitted by Allegheny in response to a petition from the Office of…
March 3, 2011
Dominion East Ohio's auctions for Standard Choice Offer and Standard Service Offer supplies resulted in a retail price adjustment of $1.00/Mcf.
March 2, 2011
Dominion East Ohio has submitted a notice of intent to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to continue with the next phase of its exit from the merchant function.
March 2, 2011
Ameren Illinois has petitioned the Illinois Commerce Commission to declare Ameren's provision of electric supply to retail customers with peak demands of at least 150 kW but less than 400 kW to be competitive effective May 1, 2011, which would move existing customers in this class to default hourly…
March 1, 2011
Met-Ed, Penelec, and Penn Power have posted updated Prices to Compare for the three-month period beginning March 1, 2011 as follows:
March 1, 2011
The majority of parties to a proceeding concerning customer migration at Public Service of New Hampshire argued that a nonbypassable surcharge to recover certain costs related to default service is not permissible, while the Office of Consumer Advocate suggested that Purchase of Receivables could be…
