N.Y. PSC Approves Lowering of Hourly Pricing Cutoff at Rochester Gas & Electric

The New York PSC approved a plan to lower the hourly priced default service threshold at Rochester Gas & Electric to 300 kW.

The PSC's prior direction to implement the 300 kW cutoff was first reported in Matters (9/22).

The lower Mandatory Hourly Pricing cutoff will be implemented in two steps.

Customers with demands of 500 kW or more for two of the prior twelve months will be subject to hourly default service with their first full billing period falling on or after September 22, 2011. This first expansion would affect approximately 220 customers.

All the remaining eligible customers with demands in excess of 300 kW would be placed onto hourly priced default service on September 22, 2012. This second expansion would affect approximately 365 customers.

The current hourly pricing cutoff is 1 MW.

The matter is Case No. 09-E-0717.