New York PSC Approves Joint Proposal In O&R Rate Case Addressing Various Retail Market Issues, Supply Costs

The New York PSC has adopted a joint proposal in Orange & Rockland's electric and gas rate cases, without modification to various retail market issues addressed in the JP

Among other things, the JP addresses the Gas Billing and Payment Processing Charge. Where O&R performs billing services for an ESCO that sells gas commodity to O&R’s delivery customers, O&R charges a fixed amount per each bill received designed to cover costs related to billing and payment processing. The Joint Proposal increases the per bill charge from $1.02 to $1.30. The increase is based on the results of the Company’s ECOS study relative to the costs for O&R’s billing services.

The JP also addresses recovery of certain supply-related costs for electricity and natural gas and various additional natural gas issues impacting ESCOs

Such terms of the JO were exclusively first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com in November, see our original story here for a discussion of the terms