Pa. PUC Adopts Limited Exception to All-In Requirement for PPL POR

As first reported in Matters' live blog yesterday, the Pennsylvania PUC has adopted two exceptions to the all-in/all-out requirement for residential customers in PPL Electric's Purchase of Receivables program (R-2010-2161694).

Adopting a motion from Commissioner John Coleman, Jr., the PUC established exceptions to the all-in requirement for products that cannot be billed by PPL on consolidated billing, or products that cannot be billed under POR due to inclusion of non-basic supply service.

Consistent with an earlier non-binding poll (12/3), the PUC denied the following exceptions from the Retail Energy Supply Association:

• RESA's petition to replace the current uncollectibles discount rate and merchant function charge with a nonbypassable charge to recover uncollectibles was denied
• RESA's petition for an adjustment to the filed uncollectibles rate, to reflect actual experience under POR rather than a five-year average, was denied
• RESA's petition to end the tracking of supplier-specific uncollectible rates for small business customers (with the discount rate potentially applied as a remedy against cherry picking) was denied.

Under the PUC's order, the residential POR discount rate will increase from 1.37% to 1.855%. The non-residential discount rate will decrease to 0.06% from the current 0.17%.

The PUC did not extend the revised POR program at PPL to the large commercial class, which is governed by a legacy POR program.