Ohio Approves Interim Default Service Procurement

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved Dayton Power & Light's proposal to conduct a procurement of default service supplies, for the delivery period beginning June 1, 2017, while DP&L's electric security plan is still being adjudicated.

PUCO authorized DP&L to conduct two competitive auctions, as designed in a pending ESP stipulation, to procure load-following, full-requirements service including energy, capacity, market-based transmission charges, and market-based ancillary services under varying term lengths of 12, 24, and 36 months. Renewable energy compliance requirements will not be included in the full requirements auction product. Additionally, the full requirements auction product will not include firm NITS and non-market based ancillary services

The two auctions will be conducted on April 11, 2017 and April 24, 2017, and each auction will procure 50 tranches of load. Each tranche is a uniform 1% slice of the DP&L SSO load (excluding PIPP customers).

As a result of the two auctions, one-third of DP&L SSO supplies for the 2017-18 delivery year will be served under 12-month contracts (June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018), one-third will be served under 24-month contracts (June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2019), and one-third will be served under 36-month contracts (June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2020), with all of such supplies procured in the two April 2017 auctions

Adopting a Staff recommendation, PUCO modified DP&L's proposal to remove Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers from the SSO auctions, as per statute, a retail supplier is to be selected via RFP to serve PIPP customers.