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October 30, 2013
Pennsylvania PUC Chairman Robert Powelson used a keynote address at the National Energy Marketers Association fall leadership roundtable to "call out" AARP for what he called "intellectually dishonest" scare tactics.
October 25, 2013
PECO's electric Price to Compare for residential and certain commercial customers will increase on December 1.
October 24, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the results of the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' auction to procure default service supplies for various terms starting June 1, 2014.
October 22, 2013
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed with the PUC new Prices to Compare for the period December 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014.
October 17, 2013
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric for the month of November.
October 17, 2013
Maine should not extend LMP-based monthly variable default service pricing to the medium non-residential customer class because, "index pricing is of limited use in promoting customer switching," for smaller customers, Exelon Generation Company said in comments to the PUC.
October 16, 2013
Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC has sought changes to the pricing of default natural gas supply at KeySpan New York (National Grid) to remove barriers to competition.
October 11, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC approved new default service rates for both large and mass market default service customers at Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. (UES) for the six-month period beginning December 1, 2013.
October 10, 2013
Public Service Company of New Hampshire is forecasting an increase in its energy service (default service) rate for the period starting January 1, 2014.
October 8, 2013
PECO has posted results from its September procurement of a portion of electric default service supplies for various periods through 2015.
October 2, 2013
A nonsensical opinion from a federal court appears to void state public service commissions' ability to set the prices paid to their wholesale default service providers, because "state action that regulates" within the field of "setting wholesale electric energy and capacity rates or prices" is…
October 1, 2013
The Illinois Power Agency on September 30 filed a default service procurement plan with the Illinois Commerce Commission (13-0546) which seeks to return to the purchase of fixed energy blocks to serve default service load.
September 23, 2013
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric for the month of October.
September 18, 2013
The potential need for a nonbypassable charge on customers at Delmarva Power in Delaware, to recover costs of long-term wind PPAs used to supply the SOS portfolio, has not materialized, and Delaware PSC Staff no longer consider impacts from customer migration to be an issue in the near future, the…
September 13, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a settlement in UGI Utilities' default service proceeding which relies on block energy purchases for a portion of default service load for residential and small commercial electric customers.
September 13, 2013
Default service electric customers in Connecticut have done systemically less well in terms of electric generation costs than customers who have exercised choice, which compels changes to the market, Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection…
September 9, 2013
PUCO issued an entry nunc pro tunc correcting is order issued earlier last week regarding the transition to auction-based default service at Dayton Power & Light, with the corrected order creating a longer transition to 100% auction-based default service rates.
September 5, 2013
PECO's residential electric Price to Compare increased nearly 10% on September 1.
September 5, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio issued a notice this morning that its order issued on September 4 concerning Dayton Power & Light's electric security plan, governing default service, "does not reflect the decision that the Commission intended to issue, including the length of the ESP period…
August 29, 2013
The Pennsylvania Office of the Consumer Advocate has petitioned the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a recent Commonwealth Court decision which found that electric default service relying on a single product type can meet the statute's requirement that default service shall include a…
August 27, 2013
PPL has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC a proposed new pilot Time of Use program for default service customers which would rely on retail electric generation suppliers (EGSs) to serve customers under a Time of Use program required to be offered as part of a default service plan.
August 26, 2013
PPL Electric Utilities announced that its Price to Compare for residential customers will increase by over 5 mills per kWh on September 1.
August 22, 2013
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Last Resort Service rates for the three-month period beginning October 1. CL&P Last Resort Service Rates, Oct. 2013 - Dec. 2013 (¢/kWh) Rates 39, 41, 55, 56, 57, & 58 (at or over 500 kW): Oct.: 5.399 Nov.: 6.135 Dec.: 8.503
August 22, 2013
The Maine PUC has adopted an alternative mechanism to supply Standard Offer service for large non-residential customers at Bangor Hydro-Electric for the period September 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014, after the PSC previously rejected bids from its standard RFP for default service supplies
August 22, 2013
Electric Standard Offer Service in Maryland should, "continue to include some form of Administrative Charge, in addition to the purchased power costs, transmission charges and taxes," the Maryland PSC concluded in reversing a proposed order from a hearing examiner, as the Commission remanded the…
