Pepco Planning to Use Hourly Load Data for Supplier Settlement in Late 2013

Pepco is planning to use hourly data for load settlement with suppliers in the PJM marketplace by the, "latter part of 2013," it informed the District of Columbia PSC (FC 1017).

During a recent hearing regarding dynamic pricing and Standard Offer Service, Commissioners questioned the potential for dynamically priced products from competitive suppliers.

Retail suppliers responded that they are limited in offering dynamic pricing to residential and small commercial customers because the customer's load is still settled using a class load profile rather than the customer's actual load. Even though customers may respond to dynamic prices, the supplier is not credited for such behavior changes in settlement. Accordingly, there is no opportunity to use the customer's response to dynamic rates to accrue savings which can then be passed onto the customer through the dynamic rates.

Pepco additionally said that, at a minimum, hourly data for residential and small commercial customers will be applied to the PJM energy reconciliation process and Pepco's capacity and transmission peak load contribution calculations.

Pepco is planning to provide interval data once the residential and small commercial accounts are billed using the intervals. As previously reported, Pepco plans to put 5,000 residential SOS customers on interval billing by the summer of 2012 (4/15/10).

However, if those customers elect a competitive supplier after they are placed on interval billing, the supplier will receive the interval data via EDI.