Regulator Directs Utilities To Report Number Of Residential Customers Served Under Variable Rates, By Supplier, In Uncollectibles Investigation

The Connecticut PURA has issued interrogatories to Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating directing the utilities to, "Provide a list of suppliers and the number of residential accounts currently identified as being served under a variable rate for each supplier."

The interrogatories were issued in Docket No. 18-04-25 - PURA Investigation Regarding Issues Related to Uncollectible Accounts

Docket No. 18-04-25 has seen certain stakeholders, such as OCC, raise the issue of the utilities' purchase of receivables programs as a driver of utility uncollectibles

Although suppliers are prohibited from enrolling residential customers onto new variable rate products in Connecticut, suppliers are permitted to continue serving, with a variable rate, customers who were on a variable rate plan at the time the state's variable rate ban was enacted.

As exclusively first reported by EnergyChoiceMatters.com, PURA recently assigned a new docket reviewing the POR programs as a result of such comments; specifically, Docket 20-01-33 - PURA Review of Electric Distribution Companies’ Method of Payment to Licensed Electric Suppliers for Uncollectible Customer Accounts (see story here)