February 5, 2014
Details of Settlement Filed to Set Adders to Bypassable SOS Rate
Details of a non-unanimous settlement that would set the bypassable SOS Administrative Charge at Pepco and Delmarva have now been filed at the Maryland PSC.
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February 4, 2014
Pepco, Delmarva File New SOS Rates
Pepco and Delmarva have filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period March 1, 2014 to May 31, 2014.
February 3, 2014
Briefly
PUC Rejects Default Service Solicitation Results
February 3, 2014
Mid-Atlantic Retail Supplier Drops Customers to Default Service, Extreme Pricing Dealt "Fatal" Blow
Clean Currents confirmed that it is dropping its electric customer base to default service, and has ceased accepting enrollments from new customers.
January 30, 2014
Ohio Approves Results from Auction Determining FirstEnergy EDCs' Default Service Rate
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) has approved the results of the FirstEnergy utilities’ eighth wholesale auction that will ultimately determine its default retail generation service rates through May 2016.
January 29, 2014
SHOCK: New York Caps Default Service Rates, Mitigates Non-Shopping Customers' Exposure to Wholesale Price Spikes
In an action which brings back memories of the dark days of retail choice where fledgling markets were hemorrhaging left and right after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and natural gas prices raced to record highs, the New York PSC has capped the default service electric rates at Niagara Mohawk for…
January 28, 2014
Pepco Residential, Commercial SOS Rates to Decrease
Update 2/10 : This story has been updated to reflect Pepco's revisions to the SOS rates as filed on 2/7
January 28, 2014
PECO Price to Compare to Decrease for Residential, Commercial Customers on March 1
PECO's electric Price to Compare will decrease for residential and commercial customers on March 1.
January 27, 2014
Maine Residential, Small C&I Default Service Rates to Increase Over 10%
The Maine PUC has set new Standard Offer electric rates for customers at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric (Emera Maine – BHE) for the 12-month period beginning March 1, 2014.
January 27, 2014
State Asks If Default Service Should Include "Menu" of Dynamic Pricing Options
The Massachusetts DPU has formally opened its previously announced investigation of dynamic pricing by seeking stakeholder comment on, among other things, whether default (basic) electric service should include a "menu" of time-based rate options.
January 23, 2014
Maine Rejects Inclusion of ISO Winter Reliability Charges in Previously Established Default Service Rates
The Maine PUC rejected a waiver sought by NextEra Energy Power Marketing which would have allowed existing Standard Offer providers to recover material out-of-pocket charges imposed by the ISO New England pursuant to the out-of-market Winter Reliability Program.
January 22, 2014
Updated: ABACCUS Report Ranks Best Retail Electric Markets
Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC (DEFG) has released its 2014 Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), which identifies the states that have the most active retail electricity markets in North America.
January 22, 2014
Non-Unanimous Settlement Reached on Adder to Default Service Rate
Several parties have informed the Maryland PSC that they have reached a non-unanimous settlement concerning the level of the bypassable administrative charge included in SOS rates at Pepco and Delmarva in Maryland.
January 20, 2014
Connecticut PURA: Original Customer Verification Cannot Be Used to Enroll Customer Dropped Due to Default
A customer's original authorization to switch to competitive supply cannot be used to return the customer to competitive supply after a default has placed the customer on utility Standard Service, the Connecticut PURA said in a letter to People's Power & Gas.
January 17, 2014
Maine Sets New Standard Offer Rates
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro Electric for the month of February 2014.
January 17, 2014
Draft Order Would Authorize Spot-Market-Based Default Service
A recommended decision from a Pennsylvania ALJ would continue the spot-market-based default service mechanism at Pike County Light & Power for two additional years.
January 17, 2014
Ohio Staff Files Retail Market Development Workplan, Includes Recommendation on POR
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have filed a retail electric market development workplan which, as expected, does not include any major changes to the state's market design, but does recommend requiring utilities to offer purchase of receivables.
January 16, 2014
Briefly
Ohio Approves New Retail Price Adjustment for Default Service
January 16, 2014
Retail Auction Supporter Esty Stepping Down as Head of Connecticut DEEP
Daniel Esty announced that he is stepping down as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to return to a tenured professorship at Yale University.
January 15, 2014
Sharyland Informs Customers of Last Date to Select REP Prior to Assignment to Default Providers
Sharyland Utilities, L.P. will be mailing to customers a letter informing them that they must select a retail electric provider by April 13, 2014 if they do not wish to be transitioned to the default retail electric provider.
January 15, 2014
Ohio Staff Post Results of Standard Choice Offer Auction Setting Adder to Default Rate
Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio's Standard Choice Offer auction conducted on January 14, 2014 resulted in a Retail Price Adjustment of $1.05 per Mcf for the period April 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015.
January 13, 2014
New Jersey Bill to Replace Three-Year Default Service Portfolio With Shorter-Term Contracts Advances From Committee
A bill which would replace New Jersey's current 36-month laddered default service portfolio with short-term contracts was reported out of the New Jersey Assembly's Telecommunications and Utilities Committee last week.
January 7, 2014
Utility Reports Cost of Recent Retail Supplier Default
Connecticut Light & Power has reported to PURA the costs arising from its transfer of People's Power & Gas' customers to default service due to People's Power & Gas' default at ISO New England last month (the default has since been cured).
January 6, 2014
Retail Supplier "Making Efforts" to "Recover" Customers Dropped to Default Service due to Default
People's Power & Gas, LLC informed the Connecticut PURA that with its default at ISO New England cured, People's Power & Gas, "plans to continue serving retail customers in Connecticut," and is, "currently making efforts to work with the utilities and regulators in Connecticut and other states to…
December 31, 2013
Retail Supplier Cures Default
People's Power and Gas has cured its default at ISO New England.