PSC Formally Opens Review of Petition To Improve Retail Market

The Delaware PSC yesterday adopted an order to formally open an investigation to consider a petition from the Delaware Electricity Affordability Committee for the PSC to consider recommended retail electric market enhancements, including purchase of receivables, proposed by the Committee

As exclusively reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com last month, the Delaware Electricity Affordability Committee endorsed eight retail electric market enhancements, and encouraged the PSC to consider adopting the enhancements

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

Under a proposed order adopted by the PSC yesterday, interested persons may file comments, suggestions, and objections to EAC’s proposed recommendations on or before March 30, 2016, with an intervention deadline of March 20, 2016

Docket 15-1693