Start Date Filed For New Monthly Rate Program For Non-Shopping Customers; New Minimum Size Eligibility Requirement For Retail Suppliers

The East Ohio Gas Company d/b/a Dominion Energy Ohio has filed tariff pages to implement the new Monthly Retail Rate (MRR) Commodity Service program, as adopted in a previously reported stipulation, which is the new monthly default pricing program under which non-shopping, non-residential consumers whose annual consumption is greater than 200 Mcf are assigned to a retail supplier

See background on the new MRR program in our prior story

Dominion Energy Ohio said that it has completed the necessary system changes for the assignment of non-residential DEO consumers whose annual consumption is greater than 200 Mcf and less than or equal to 500 Mcf ("medium non-residential customers"), and said that qualifying medium and large non-residential customers, as defined under the stipulation and applicable tariff provisions, will be eligible to receive MRR Commodity Service beginning with the effective date of the tariffs (to be effective July 14)

As previously reported, customers receiving commodity service under the MRR rate schedule shall be charged the lower of (a) their MRR Supplier’s lowest monthly variable rate offer posted on the PUCO’s Energy Choice Ohio website or (b) the Median MRR Price. The Median MRR Price shall be determined each month based on the median of each MRR Supplier’s lowest monthly variable rate offer posted on the Energy Choice Ohio website and shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions approved in the Opinion and Order in Case No. 18-1419-GA-EXM.

As previously reported, to participate as an MRR supplier, the supplier must have at least 100 non-MRR, non-SCO Energy Choice customers under contract for competitive retail natural gas service or must be serving at least 10,000 MCF of non-MRR, non-SCO Energy Choice annual load, beginning one year from the date of an order approving the stipulation

The tariff codifies this eligibility deadline as February 26, 2021, one year after the stipulation was approved

See more details on the mechanics of the MRR program and pricing, and changes to the mechanism used to serve smaller customers, in our prior story on the adoption of the stipulation

Case 18-1419-GA-EXM