November 20, 2024
New Default Service Rates Set For Central Maine Power & Both Versant Rate Districts
The Maine PUC has approved new electricity default service rates at the state's three investor-owned electric utilities
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November 18, 2024
United Illuminating Residential Default Service Rate Increasing 14%; Small C&I Rate Increasing 11%
United Illuminating has filed new default service rates with the Connecticut PURA for the period beginning January 1, 2025
November 15, 2024
NSTAR East Residential, Small C&I Default Service Rates Decreasing 15%
Several Retail Supplier Residential Offers Already Beat New SOS Rate
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 beginning February 1, 2025
November 15, 2024
New Prices To Compare Posted At PECO
New electricity Prices to Compare are now available at PECO after PECO filed an annual update to its bypassable transmission rate
November 15, 2024
Connecticut Light & Power Mass Market Default Service Rates Increasing 25%
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2025 through June 2025, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2025 through March 2025
November 13, 2024
PUC Staff Make Recommendations On Changes To Utilities' Default Service Plan
Staff of a PUC have filed…
November 12, 2024
Nstar Mass Market Default Service Rates Falling 15%
Default service electric rates for mass market customers in the western part of Nstar's territory in Massachusetts will fall by about…
November 7, 2024
Pa. PUC Approves End Of Customer Referral Program At PPL
The Pennsylvania PUC this morning adopted…
November 7, 2024
Pa. PUC Approves Placing New Shadow Billing Chart On First Page Of Shopping Customer Bills At PECO
In PECO's electricity default service proceeding…
October 31, 2024
PPL Small C&I Price To Compare Increasing 13%, Residential PTC Increasing 7%
PPL Electric Utilities in Pennsylvania has posted new electric prices to compare for the 6-month period beginning December 1, 2024
October 30, 2024
Consumers Counsel Says Market Rate Offers Should Be Used To Provide Default Service, Citing Maturity Of Market, "Competitive" Prices From Retail Suppliers
A Market Rate Offer (MRO) should be used to procure default service electricity supplies
October 29, 2024
FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities Withdraw Current Default Service Plan
Citing a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision concerning the PUC of Ohio's rehearing authority…
October 22, 2024
Pennsylvania Utility Agrees To Use Five-Year ATC Block For Part Of Default Service Under Settlement
A non-unanimous settlement governing the provision of default service at…
October 16, 2024
PECO Files New Generation Charges
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new…
October 16, 2024
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Residential Default Service Rates Increasing 8%; WPP Commercial Rate Increasing 9%
Residential tariffed price to compare electric rates at…
October 15, 2024
PUC Approves Use Of ISO Market Purchases For 30% Of Small Customer Default Service At State's Largest Utility
An EDC will begin serving 30% of mass market default energy service through purchases from…
October 10, 2024
Settlement Addresses Separate Default Service For Large Customers (Data Centers & Others)
A settlement among several major parties in…
October 10, 2024
Settlement Addresses Separate Default Service For Large Customers (Data Centers & Others)
AEP Ohio is not a signatory to the settlement as originally reported
October 7, 2024
PUC To Open Additional Phase Of Default Service Review To Examine More Sophisticated Products
A PUC anticipates opening…
October 2, 2024
Last Of State's Original, Once-Championed Retail Market Enhancement To Be Eliminated Under Unopposed Settlement
A much-celebrated retail energy market enhancement would be eliminated under…
October 1, 2024
Duquesne Light Default Supply Rate Falling 10% For Residential Customers, 14% For Small Commercial
Mass market supply rates for non-shopping customers at Duquesne Light will fall…
October 1, 2024
PSC Changes Default Service Product Design In Light Of New Opt-out Aggregation; Directs That CCA Not Start In Summer
A PSC has endorsed a change in the wholesale product design for electricity SOS at…
September 27, 2024
Texas PUC Approves Designation Of REPs As Non-Volunteer POLRs
The Texas PUC has designated retail electric providers to serve as non-volunteer POLRs (large service providers or LSPs) for the 2025-26 term
September 24, 2024
Pennsylvania Retail Suppliers Suggest Allowing One-Time Adjustment To Fixed Rate Due To Spike In Capacity Costs; Note Utility Was Given Such Treatment For SOS
The Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) urged the Pennsylvania PUC to "consider" the potential negative impacts to current and future shopping customers from "unplanned" interim adjustments to default service rates, which occur outside of the standard default service fixed pricing periods
September 17, 2024
PUC Approves Mid-Course Increase In Fixed Default Service Rates Due To Spike In PJM Capacity Prices
Higher default service rates will apply to non-shopping customers at…