June 4, 2025
Pepco in the District of Columbia has sought clarification from the D.C. PSC concerning which Community Renewable Energy Facilities (CREF) costs may be included in the bypassable SOS administrative charge
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June 4, 2025
During a June 4 Maryland PSC administrative meeting, a majority of PSC Commissioners expressed concerns with setting residential purchase of receivables discount rates at Pepco, Delmarva, and Washington Gas Light at the levels proposed by utilities and PSC Staff, due to the potential for such…
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June 4, 2025
At the June 4 Maryland PSC administrative meeting, during consideration of changes to the purchase of receivables discount rates at several utilities (see related story today) , PSC Staff said that Staff has received "a lot" of "complaints" from residential customers concerning the unavailability of…
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May 21, 2025
The District of Columbia PSC has directed a PSC-created task force to develop and file recommendations on what improvements might be made locally to address the impacts of the PJM 2025/2026 delivery year capacity auction on District consumers
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May 20, 2025
Consumer Counsel Supports Recommendation That SOS Admin. Charge Be Tied To Or Verified Against Competitive Third-Party Supply Pricing, To Ensure Adder Does Not Undercut Competition
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May 9, 2025
Pepco in Maryland has proposed an 8% residential purchase of receivables (POR) discount rate as part of winding down POR for residential customers
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May 7, 2025
In an order adopting provisions for a statutorily required Do Not Transfer list process, the Maryland PSC has directed the utilities to provide updates concerning any implementation challenges and concerns related to adopting an automatic block (enrollment rejection) for any customer on the Do Not…
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May 6, 2025
Horizon Power and Light, LLC applied for Ohio electric and natural gas supplier licenses to serve all customer classes in all service areas
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April 15, 2025
A consultant retained by Pepco, at the direction of the District of Columbia PSC, to conduct an audit of the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge, has recommended that the current bypassable Adder included in the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge at Pepco should be, "tied more closely to competitive third-party…
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April 4, 2025
The Maryland Office of People's Counsel said in a news release that, "Ratepayers should not be forced to cover the costs of utility proposals to acquire and own energy storage devices located on customer properties because it would impede the developing competitive market for storage and could…
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March 17, 2025
Pepco in the District of Columbia has filed its latest revision to the residential purchase of receivables (POR) discount rate, using the latest methodology directed by the D.C. PSC
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March 7, 2025
Implementing Non-POR UCB, "Will Not Be Fast [&] ... Certainly Will Not Be Cheap," Utilities Say, Arguing That Ratepayers Should Not Bear Significant Cost Risk
Neither the Maryland utilities nor retail suppliers filed any new "comprehensive proposals" that were to detail how retail energy suppliers could serve new or renewed residential customers under utility consolidated billing in Maryland without purchase of receivables (POR)
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March 6, 2025
New POR Discount Could Be In 10% Range, Or Higher
The District of Columbia PSC has again instructed Pepco to re-calculate an update to the residential POR discount rate (originally envisioned to take effect in July 2024), as the PSC concluded, "there is no simple way to mitigate a high POR Discount Rate without impacting non-POR ratepayers."
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February 11, 2025
District of Columbia PSC Commissioner Richard Beverly has directed stakeholders to provide their updated position on the amount of electricity SOS load that should be served under a long-term PPA
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January 20, 2025
Several Maryland utilities have recommended that the Maryland PSC require only weekly, not daily, updates to the list of customers who do not wish to be contacted by, or switched to, a retail energy supplier
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January 16, 2025
Several Maryland utilities have posted the average rate charged by each retail electric supplier
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December 11, 2024
PSC Presses Retail Suppliers To "Expeditiously" Commit To Using Supplier Consolidated Billing PSC Rules New Law Banning POR Does Not Prohibit Utility's Re-purchase Of Delivery Receivables Under SCB
Citing a lack of retail suppliers who have agreed to participate in utility testing for supplier consolidated billing, a PSC ordered the state's utilities to pause work on implementing supplier consolidated billing (SCB)
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December 6, 2024
PSC Staff Propose More Restrictive Price Cap For Retail Supplier Green Power
An inconsistency in Maryland's SB1 may be read as prohibiting retail electric suppliers from offering green power sourced from any state other than Maryland
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December 3, 2024
Baltimore Gas & Electric, Pepco-Maryland, and Delmarva-Maryland have no "firm plans" to build generation in Maryland, but…
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November 11, 2024
Staff of the Maryland PSC have offered an overview of resource adequacy policies and options available to the Maryland PSC
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November 6, 2024
Staff Propose Audit Of Supplier Costs, Show Of Long-Term Investment In Green Power, If Suppliers Seek Green Power Rate Other Than PSC-Set Rate
Under an updated draft from Maryland PSC Staff to implement new green power marketing rules established by SB1…
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October 15, 2024
As a result of SB 1, Maryland electric utilities may not offer green power, as defined by SB 1, the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel said in comments to the Maryland PSC
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October 9, 2024
A retail energy supplier will transfer certain of its retail energy customers to…
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October 1, 2024
A PSC has endorsed a change in the wholesale product design for electricity SOS at…
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September 30, 2024
All of the Maryland investor-owned electric utilities opposed the use of a pro rata mechanism for utility consolidated billing upon the end of purchase of receivables
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