January 24, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has clarified its order concerning the discounted capacity set asides available for shopping customers at AEP Ohio, which will expand the amount of load able to be served with RPM-priced capacity versus how AEP Ohio proposed to implement PUCO's prior order.
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January 19, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has denied AEP Ohio's request for rehearing of PUCO's order approving an order in Duke Energy Ohio's electric security plan proceeding.
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January 13, 2012
Vista Energy Marketing Seeks New Supplier License
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January 12, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has denied Ohio Power's request (10/4/10) for a nonbypassable rider to recover the closure costs of Unit 5 of the Philip Sporn Generating Station (10-1454-EL-RDR).
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January 4, 2012
FirstEnergy Solutions has petitioned the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to maintain then-current (as of the December 30, 2011 date of FES' motion) rates at AEP Ohio, or alternatively maintain the then-current cost of capacity, until such time as AEP Ohio has accepted the partial stipulation, as…
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December 26, 2011
Recent PUCO orders concerning electric security plans at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio provide Duke Energy Ohio with an, "undue preference and advantage," due to the disparate treatment of corporate separation plans addressing the separation of generation from the distribution utilities, AEP Ohio…
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December 22, 2011
Ohio Power Company (AEP Ohio) has sought approval from PUCO to implement a Competitive Retail Electric Service (CRES) Consolidated Rate Ready bill format to become effective on February 15, 2012.
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December 21, 2011
The New York PSC approved without modification a revised auction plan for the divestiture of fossil generation owned by Rochester Gas & Electric and an affiliate (10/24) . As previously reported, the revised auction plan separates the original bundle of assets to remove less attractive assets, in…
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December 20, 2011
New Jersey should consider the possibility of creating a state power authority if ratepayer-backed long-term capacity contracts fail to clear the May 2012 and May 2013 Reliability Pricing Model auctions, New Jersey BPU Staff has recommended to the Board.
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December 14, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a modified stipulation establishing the AEP Ohio companies' electric security plan governing default service for the period 2012 through May 31, 2016, which revises the amount of "discounted" capacity made available to competitive retail suppliers (11…
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December 12, 2011
Interstate Gas Supply has asked the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to cap the amount of discounted capacity available to governmental aggregations which would otherwise be made available under a pending non-unanimous settlement regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan.
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December 8, 2011
The FirstEnergy Ohio distribution companies saw a significant decline in migrated residential accounts during the three months ended September 30, 2011, versus the total as of the June 30, 2011.
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November 2, 2011
Continuing the pace seen in the second quarter of 2011, direct retail sales by FirstEnergy Solutions in the third quarter of 2011 increased by two-thirds versus the year-ago quarter, FirstEnergy Corp. disclosed yesterday in reporting earnings.
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October 27, 2011
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
Customer switching in Ohio accounted for a reduction in gross margin of $37.4 million at AEP Ohio during the third quarter of 2011, AEP disclosed in reporting earnings yesterday.
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October 27, 2011
During an earnings call yesterday, Exelon CEO John Rowe continued a victory lap on recent, yet unapproved, settlements at Duke Energy Ohio and AEP Ohio that would require both utilities to begin procuring 100% of capacity for customers through the Reliability Pricing Model in 2015.
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October 14, 2011
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…
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October 6, 2011
AEP Ohio has filed a revised plan to implement the proposed RPM set-aside, providing greater details and granularity after being informed by a collaborative with suppliers and other parties (11-346-EL-SSO et. al.).
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October 4, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will allow Columbus Southern Power and Ohio Power to continue charging bypassable costs of certain environmental investments, but ruled that the AEP Ohio utilities have not justified recovery of POLR charges at the level reflected in their existing rates.
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September 29, 2011
Should the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio accept a non-unanimous stipulation regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan, FirstEnergy Solutions sought, at a minimum, to require AEP to provide RPM-priced capacity to governmental aggregation loads, and for such loads to be excluded from the…
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September 14, 2011
The non-unanimous, stipulated electric security plan (ESP) at AEP Ohio would result in generation rates $1.67/MWh lower than the results expected under a Market Rate Offer, AEP Ohio said yesterday in testimony supporting the stipulation.
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September 9, 2011
"Much" of the shopping at Met-Ed and Penelec has been "successfully captured" by FirstEnergy Solutions, FirstEnergy Corp. CEO Anthony Alexander told investors yesterday at a Barclays Capital conference.
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September 8, 2011
The contemplated corporate separation of AEP Ohio's existing ratebased generation from its Ohio distribution companies opens up a whole new view for the company going forward, executives said during an investor call yesterday.
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September 7, 2011
A non-unanimous stipulation in AEP Ohio's electric security plan proceeding contemplates that, starting June 1, 2015, AEP Ohio would source power for Standard Service Offer load through competitive auctions (11-346-EL-SSO et. al.)
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September 6, 2011
AEP Ohio submitted testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio supporting its request to raise the capacity charges imposed on competitive retail suppliers under its Fixed Resource Requirement by up to 160% (10-2929-EL-UNC).
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