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May 29, 2014
The Illinois Power Agency, which is charged with procuring default electric service, will hold a workshop on June 5 on issues related to the potential use of full requirements contracts for default service.
May 28, 2014
Several retail electric providers owned by Just Energy have filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to assign their non-volunteer POLR obligation to an affiliate.
May 28, 2014
The Massachusetts DPU has approved an alternative methodology for procuring basic electric service supplies at Nstar and Western Massachusetts Electric Co. for large C&I customers, after the utilities' solicitation of load following supplies for the third quarter of 2014 failed to attract any…
May 28, 2014
The New York PSC has sought comment on a variety of issues emerging from a technical conference on winter rates, including the hedging practices for default service and the offering of fixed price default service by utilities.
May 23, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC approved nonbypassable charges at Citizens' Electric Co. and Wellsboro Electric Co. to recover unanticipated and excessive costs from the polar vortex.
May 22, 2014
The Illinois Commerce Commission has opened an investigation into Commonwealth Edison's current rate design which provides generation supply rate subsidies to non-residential space heat and lighting customers (Docket 14-0385).
May 22, 2014
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has changed the calculation of the electric Price to Compare, in an order on rehearing of its retail market order.
May 21, 2014
Despite an earlier forecast of a decrease in the residential Price to Compare, PPL's official residential Price to Compare is increasing on June 1, according to data now available on PPL's website.
May 21, 2014
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have proposed changes to the procurement of default service under AEP Ohio's proposed electric security plan covering the period starting June 1, 2015 to address "potential rate volatility."
May 20, 2014
Duquesne Light has posted official Prices to Compare for the six-month period starting June 1, with a 22% increase in the residential Rate RS Price to Compare confirmed
May 19, 2014
Niagara Mohawk (National Grid) had petitioned the New York PSC for tariff changes that would provide it with discretion regarding the period over which it must reconcile electric default service costs.
May 16, 2014
United Illuminating has filed new Standard Service rates for the six-month period beginning July 1, 2014, and new Last Resort Service Rates for the three-month period beginning July 1, 2014.
May 16, 2014
Connecticut Light & Power has filed new Standard Service rates for the six-month period beginning July 1, 2014, and new Last Resort Service Rates for the three-month period beginning July 1, 2014.
May 14, 2014
Pennsylvania has approved the assignment of 23 tranches of load following contracts supplying default service at the FirstEnergy utilities.
May 14, 2014
Nstar has filed new basic service electric rates for the period beginning July 1, 2014.
May 13, 2014
"Hedging" has been included as a topic on the agenda for the previously reported May 15 technical conference that the New York PSC is convening on the polar vortex.
May 9, 2014
United Illuminating will apparently self-manage part of its default service load, according to a disclosure filed with PURA.
May 8, 2014
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the results of AEP-Ohio's second energy-only auction that will ultimately determine its retail generation service rates through May 2015.
May 7, 2014
A recommended decision would continue the use of 24-month contracts for a significant portion of residential default service at Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, and West Penn Power through May 31, 2017.
May 7, 2014
FirstEnergy confirmed during an earnings call yesterday that it is considering proposing a mechanism to provide the customers of its Ohio utilities with greater generation price stability, Leila Vespoli, FirstEnergy's Executive Vice President of Markets, said during an earnings call yesterday.
May 7, 2014
Commonwealth Edison's residential Price to Compare is set to jump nearly 40% on June 1.
May 6, 2014
PPL petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for approval to extend the contract terms for the final default service procurements for the residential and small commercial and industrial customer classes under its current default service plan, to be procured in October 2014, by an additional six months.
May 5, 2014
The Michigan PSC has approved a temporary increase in Consumers Energy's gas cost recovery factor to $5.575 per Mcf, plus the potential for additional increases, subject to a cap, based on a contingency mechanism.
May 5, 2014
Public Service of New Hampshire has forecast an increase in the default service electric rate, effective July 1.
May 5, 2014
The Illinois Procurement Agency has posted winning average prices for the spring 2014 procurement of block default service energy at Commonwealth Edison and Ameren for various periods from June 2014 to May 2016.
