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December 23, 2025
With an eye towards affordability and price stability, the District of Columbia PSC has initiated a biennial review of the electricity SOS process
December 22, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC, in separate orders, has adopted changes, or ordered the study of potential changes, to various aspect of electricity default service rate calculations at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) and Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities)
December 19, 2025
The electricity residential RS price to compare at AEP Ohio is set to increase nearly 10% on January 1, 2026 due to a customary change in the auction cost reconciliation rider
December 17, 2025
The PUC of Ohio has dismissed an electric security plan application filed by the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities, which had been filed prior to a new law governing default service
December 16, 2025
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed new electricity basic service rates for the period beginning February 1, 2026
December 15, 2025
Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) has filed new default service electric rates for the period February 1, 2026 through July 31, 2026
December 12, 2025
Another Utility Makes Modification To Calculation Residential, SCI SOS Rate Increasing 10%
The New Hampshire PUC has made several changes to how electricity default service rates are established at Unitil
December 1, 2025
The Illinois Attorney General announced that some default service customers at Ameren Illinois will receive on their electric bill beginning in December a one-time credit reflecting proceeds from a previously reported $33 million settlement with Dynegy Marketing and Trade, LLC and Illinois Power…
November 19, 2025
The District of Columbia PSC approved, with modifications, an RFP to be issued by Pepco to obtain up to an additional 20% of electricity SOS supplies through long-term contracts (which, if resulting in successful bids, could bring the total amount of SOS under long-term contracts to 25%)
November 19, 2025
The Maine PUC has established Standard Offer electricity rates for customers at Central Maine Power (CMP), and at Versant Power's Maine Public District (MPD).
November 19, 2025
New electricity Prices to Compare at PECO in Pennsylvania have been posted for the period beginning December 1, 2025, now that PECO has filed its updated bypassable transmission rate
November 18, 2025
The small customer class Standard Offer rate at Versant Power’s Bangor Hydro District (BHD) will increase 23% starting January 1, 2026, as the Maine PUC approved Standard Offer bids for the 2026 term
November 17, 2025
United Illuminating has filed new default service rates with the Connecticut PURA for the period beginning January 1, 2026
November 17, 2025
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2026 through June 2026, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2026 through March 2026
November 14, 2025
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, 2026
November 10, 2025
Nstar (Eversource) in Massachusetts has filed new basic service electricity rates for its western Massachusetts service area (WMA, formerly WMECO), for the period beginning February 1, 2026
November 6, 2025
Westchester Power (Sustainable Westchester) reported that the following municipalities, which currently participate in the Westchester Power opt-out municipal aggregation program, will be returned to utility default service at the completion of their current electric supply contracts, the terms of…
November 1, 2025
PPL Electric has posted new prices to compare for the period December 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026
October 31, 2025
Pepco and Delmarva in Maryland have filed SOS rates for the summer of 2026 for residential and Type I customers
October 29, 2025
The following New York opt-out municipal aggregations for electricity supply, within the Central Hudson service area, are returning their customers to default service:
October 28, 2025
The Connecticut PURA has issued additional questions for comment in its review of standard service (customers under 500 kW) procurements due to recent legislation
October 16, 2025
"[T]he issue of exposing SOS customers to PJM capacity prices -- without hedging at least part of that exposure -- warrants further inquiry," the District of Columbia Government (DCG or the District), through the Office of the Attorney General and Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE), said in…
October 16, 2025
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new PTC Default rates to be in effect for the six-month period December 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026 [note that the FE filed tariff lists the end date as "May 30, 2026" which is understood to be a scrivener's error)
October 16, 2025
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the six-month period beginning December 1, 2025
October 13, 2025
Staff of the Maine PUC have issued three illustrative straw proposals for implementing time-of-use (TOU) Standard Offer default service electricity rates
