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August 28, 2026
The FirstEnergy Ohio utilities reiterated that the utilities plan to file a proposal to address default service for data centers in "due course," and said that default service for data centers should not be addressed in a proceeding in which the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs have proposed other tariff…
August 25, 2026
In a settlement with the Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E) of the Pennsylvania PUC and the Office of Consumer Advocate, UGI Utilities, Inc. - Gas Division has agreed to increase its hedging of natural gas supplies procured to serve default service customers
August 24, 2026
All of the Maryland investor-owned electric utilities, including BGE, Pepco, Delmarva and Potomac Edison, propose to, under their full requirements contracts for SOS, transfer responsibility for PJM Billing Line Item 1935 to the utility, relieving the wholesale SOS supplier from the Billing Line…
August 17, 2026
As other Exelon-owned utilities have done , Delmarva Power in Delaware has proposed that responsibility for PJM Billing Line Item 1935, U.S. DOE 202C charges, be transferred to the utility, rather than being the responsibility of the wholesale SOS supplier
August 14, 2026
Pepco in the District of Columbia sought D.C. PSC approval for two long-term PPAs bundling renewable energy supplies and Tier One RECs which would in aggregate cover 15% of SOS load
August 13, 2026
The presiding officers of a Maine PUC proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service have extended a current stay in the proceeding such that the stay is extended to September 14, 2026
August 12, 2026
The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) asked the Maine PUC for an extension of a stay in a proceeding reviewing whether to adopt, on an opt-in or opt-out basis, time of use rates for electricity standard offer service
August 12, 2026
Dayton Power and Light Company d/b/a AES Ohio has petitioned the PUC of Ohio for approval of an additional standard service offer (SSO) procurement under its legacy electric security plan in order to avoid the need to procure about 60% of default service supplies, for the delivery period starting…
August 5, 2026
A PUC has approved an interim approach to the return of data center customers to default service, which includes…
August 3, 2026
The New Hampshire PUC has established a formal process to consider ongoing issues related to electricity default service at Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities), including "discussion" of the appropriate treatment of default service reconciliation balances
July 29, 2026
Pepco in the District of Columbia as part of the annual SOS RFP process, has proposed to have PJM Billing Line Item 1935 "be transferred to the utility," relieving SOS suppliers from the charge
July 28, 2026
The District of Columbia PSC scheduled for August 18, 2026 a working group to discuss various design elements of electricity standard offer service (SOS), including procurement timing and product type, rate design, and the bypassable SOS adder
July 27, 2026
TXU Energy Retail Company LLC has filed at the Texas PUC to serve as a volunteer provider of last resort (volunteer POLR, or VREP)
July 21, 2026
The Maine PUC has scheduled, for parties to the proceeding, a settlement conference in the PUC's examination of the implementation of time of use rates for electricity standard offer service.
July 21, 2026
The Massachusetts DPU has extended the deadline for the submission of utility responses to various questions, and for stakeholder comment on additional topics, in the DPU's newly opened investigation into the design and implementation of time-varying rates (TVR) for default electricity service (aka…
July 21, 2026
Includes New Residential Demand Response Program From Which Utility Will Earn Incentive
A settlement among major parties to a PUC of Ohio proceeding addressing a multi-year electric reliability plan (similar to a rate case) at Dayton Power & Light (AES Ohio) would address default service for data centers
July 17, 2026
A report prepared by a consultant retained by the New Jersey BPU in a proceeding to modernize and potentially reform the state’s electric distribution utility business model has raised issues concerning default service, and re-regulation, in citing supply-related affordability concerns, though the…
July 13, 2026
At the direction of the New Hampshire PUC, Public Service of New Hampshire has provided counter-factual estimates of savings which would have occurred under small customer default service if 50% of small customer SOS had been served by direct ISO New England market purchases (self-supply) in the…
July 8, 2026
Duke Energy Ohio has sought from the PUC of Ohio approval of a reasonable arrangement with Amazon Data Services, Inc. that, while requiring Amazon to be supplied by a competitive retail electric supplier, would also require that, if Amazon's related load is included in default service, Amazon shall…
July 6, 2026
Kennebunk Light & Power District (KLPD) has sought a further waiver at the Maine PUC to accelerate implementation of its load aggregation for electricity Standard Offer service (default service)
July 3, 2026
The New Hampshire PUC issued an order stating that it will "abide" by the conclusion made by Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities) concerning interpretation of the PUC's recent order implementing mitigated interim default service reconciliation factors, and the resulting amount of the…
July 2, 2026
Duquesne Light has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC an update to the default service supply rate, or supply charge, for medium C&I customers (including Rates GS/GM and GMH between 25 and 200 kW), to be effective September 1, 2026 through November 30, 2026
July 2, 2026
The PUC of Ohio has disclosed winning bidders from the June 9, 2026 default service auction at the FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities
June 30, 2026
Following a petition from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com here) , the Massachusetts DPU has opened an inquiry into the design and implementation of time-varying rates (TVR) for default service (aka basic service)
June 29, 2026
Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities) has asked the New Hampshire PUC for clarification of several aspects of the PUC's recent order to mitigate the default service rate increase that would have occurred under the existing GSE default service reconciliation mechanism
