Delaware Electricity Affordability Committee Endorses POR, Other Market Enhancements

The Delaware Electricity Affordability Committee yesterday endorsed eight retail electric market enhancements, including purchase of receivables, and encouraged the PSC to consider adopting the enhancements

Implementation of the enhancements still requires PSC approval.

The eight programs endorsed by the Electricity Affordability Committee for PSC consideration were:

1. Purchase of Receivables

2. Additional space for retail suppliers on Delmarva bills

3. Allowing customers to take competitive supply at service initiation (not forced to take SOS at turn-on)

4. Seamless moves

5. Enrollment by wallet, allowing customers to use existing IDs such as a driver's license and service address to enroll, rather than their Delmarva account number or service number

6. Continued review of SOS procurement, with consideration of shorter-term products

7. Implementing the supplier marketing rules under Regulation Docket 49

8. Quarterly (or similarly frequent term) supplier meetings

The Electricity Affordability Committee did not as a whole take a position on the issue of expanding choice to the municipal utilities in Delaware. However, Jeffrey Bullock, Secretary of State and Chair of the Committee, said that as Chair he would individually recommend expanding choice to all Delaware electric utilities, including munis.

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