October 27, 2011
PUCO Removes All POLR Charges from AEP Ohio Rates
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio accepted tariffs from AEP Ohio eliminating all POLR charges from current rates effective with the first billing cycle of November 2011.
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October 27, 2011
Maryland PSC Weighs Future of Columbia Gas Choice Program
The Maryland PSC yesterday took under advisement the future of the Columbia Gas choice program, declining to issue from the bench an order on Columbia's recommendation to cease the program and suppliers' proposal to continue the program.
October 26, 2011
Illinois Committee Moves Tenaska Sourcing Agreement Bill Forward; Renewable Obligation to Cease for Retail Suppliers?
A revived bill to require Illinois utilities and retail suppliers to enter sourcing agreements with a clean coal facility, which will be Tenaska's Taylorville Energy Center, passed the Illinois Senate's Executive Committee yesterday, and is headed to the Senate floor.
October 25, 2011
Sylvester Turner Seeks Additional Data Related to Switch Holds
State Representative Sylvester Turner has requested that the PUCT collect more information regarding switch holds placed on customers by REPs, including the length of any disconnection for a customer subject to a switch hold.
October 25, 2011
PUCT Staff File Proposed Prepaid Disclosure Statement Worksheet Language
PUCT Staff have proposed language for a worksheet to accompany the standard Prepaid Disclosure Statement, which is meant to inform customers of non-recurring TDU charges associated with initiating service without listing the fees on the disclosure statement itself (39357).
October 25, 2011
Maryland Energy Marketers Coalition Asks for Temporary Delay to Test Maryland Supplier Price Portal
The Maryland Energy Marketers Coalition has asked the Maryland PSC to temporarily delay the requirement that retail electric suppliers begin using the PSC's new pricing web portal to allow testing of the system.
October 21, 2011
Delaware Staff Recommend Rulemaking on Variable Rate Contracts
Delaware PSC Staff have recommended that the Commission consider reopening Regulation Docket 49 to revise the electric supplier rules to address the potential for residential and small commercial customers to mistakenly commit to variable rates for long terms.
October 21, 2011
Michigan PSC: Choice Customers Must Help Shoulder Burden of Environmental Compliance, Other Costs of Utility Generation
Electric choice customers in Michigan, "must be expected to help shoulder the burden" of certain utility generation costs for assets, "that must stand ready to serve Choice customers again," the Michigan PSC said in an order in Detroit Edison's rate case (U-16472).
October 21, 2011
ERCOT TDUs Willing to Complete AMS Discretionary Services on Saturday Regardless of Remote Communication Success
The ERCOT TDUs have agreed to send personnel out to the field to complete Advanced Metering System (AMS) service requests on Saturday if they are unable to communicate with a provisioned advanced meter, PUCT Staff reported in offering clarifying revisions to its earlier proposal for adoption…
October 20, 2011
Stanford Seeks Exemption from Direct Access Cost Responsibility Surcharge for Historically Self-Served Load
Stanford University has requested that the California PUC modify Decision 03-04-030 to clarify that loads that were served by customer generation prior to February 1, 2001 and that subsequently switch to direct access (DA) service are only obligated to pay DA cost responsibility surcharges (CRS)…
October 20, 2011
Revised Calif. Draft Would Remove Some Procurement Costs from Retail Supplier Security Calculations
A California PUC agenda (draft) decision concerning electric service provider (ESP) security requirements would remove certain costs, for non-mass market customers, originally proposed to be included in the security requirements (R. 07-05-025).
October 18, 2011
ConEd Recommends No Credit to Full Service Customers for Prior Transportation Under-deliveries
The New York PSC should not require Consolidated Edison to provide a credit to full service natural gas customers to make them whole for the costs borne due to historic under-deliveries from transportation customers, which resulted from an anomaly in the lost and unaccounted for gas mechanism, ConEd…
October 17, 2011
Electric Suppliers May Begin Using Maryland PSC Price Portal by End of Month
The Maryland PSC has established a secure online portal to allow electricity suppliers with active offers available in the state to upload information required by recent legislation.
October 14, 2011
N.Y. Approves National Fuel Gas Distribution ESCO Storage Level Changes Without Modification
The New York PSC will allow tariff revisions from National Fuel Gas Distribution regarding ESCO storage inventory balance requirements to go into effect without modification (Case 11-G-0272).
October 14, 2011
AEP Ohio Files Tariff to Maintain Some POLR Charges, Make Charges Nonbypassable
Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power are seeking to continue the collection of POLR charges -- with the charges now being made fully nonbypassable for individual end users -- in submitting tariffs to comply with a recent PUCO order which directed the utilities to, "back out the amount of the POLR…
October 13, 2011
Pablos Suggests Worksheet to Eliminate TDU Fees from Prepaid Disclosure Statement
The PUCT will continue consideration of a standard form Prepaid Disclosure Statement after Commissioner Rolando Pablos proposed addressing TDU fee disclosures through a worksheet that encourages the customer to call the REP with specific questions on TDU fees, rather than listing the fees on the…
October 13, 2011
Design of CT Energy Info Supplier Rate Board Updated
As expected, the CT Energy Info electric rate board website has been updated with new product categories, as well as a refreshed design.
October 12, 2011
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PUCT Audit Finds Texpo Power Appropriately Implementing Lite-Up Discount
October 12, 2011
Maine PUC Proposes Rule Which May Prevent Long-Term REC Contracting by Utilities
The Maine PUC opened a formal rulemaking to address recent legislative directives and to modify its long-term utility contracting rules to include provisions meant to ensure customers receive benefits under the long-term contracts (2011-348).
October 12, 2011
WGL Intends to Bill Retail Suppliers for Costs Disallowed from Inclusion in Sales Service PGA
Washington Gas Light intends to bill competitive service providers (CSPs) for the "excess" gas costs that will be calculated by the Maryland PSC and excluded from the sales service rate due to WGL's decision to allow cash-outs by retail suppliers for imbalances, rather than applying a volumetric…
October 11, 2011
Parties File Stipulation on Oncor Advanced Meter Cost Reconciliation
An unopposed stipulation reconciling Oncor's advanced metering system surcharge would maintain the currently applicable monthly surcharges allocated to retail electric providers (39552).
October 11, 2011
RESA Seeks to Re-open Record in Connecticut Supplier-Agency Docket
The Retail Energy Supply Association has petitioned the Connecticut PURA to reopen the record in Docket 10-06-24, regarding the definition of "agent" and supplier responsibility for agents, claiming that PURA, "did not provide an opportunity for a full and fair hearing on the issues involving all…
October 11, 2011
ICC Staff Says ComEd Purchase of Uncollectibles Charge Should Only Reflect Incremental Costs
Administrative costs assessed to retail suppliers under Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Uncollectibles tariff should be limited to those costs which are truly incremental and not already included in base rates, Illinois Commerce Commission Staff said in recently filed testimony (11-0435).
October 10, 2011
Calif. Scoping Ruling: "No Basis" at this Time to Exclude ESPs from Smart Grid Privacy Rules
"[T]here is no basis at this time to doubt that the Commission has authority to adopt privacy rules for either ESPs [electric service providers] or CCAs [community choice aggregators]," California PUC President Michael Peevey said in a scoping ruling concerning smart grid privacy standards, though a…
October 10, 2011
Pa. PUC Sets Hearing on "Intermediate" Retail Competition Work Plan
The Pennsylvania PUC has scheduled an en banc hearing on November 10 regarding its Investigation of Pennsylvania's Retail Electricity Markets, specifically to inform its consideration of the "intermediate" work plan to promote competition (I-2011-2237952).