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October 28, 2013
A bill backed by retail electric suppliers has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Senate to auction off default service electric customers to retail electric generation suppliers (EGS), and transition default service to a pure backstop service.
October 25, 2013
PECO's electric Price to Compare for residential and certain commercial customers will increase on December 1.
October 24, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the results of the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' auction to procure default service supplies for various terms starting June 1, 2014.
October 22, 2013
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed with the PUC new Prices to Compare for the period December 1, 2013 through February 28, 2014.
October 17, 2013
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 November.
October 17, 2013
Maine should not extend LMP-based monthly variable default service pricing to the medium non-residential customer class because, "index pricing is of limited use in promoting customer switching," for smaller customers, Exelon Generation Company said in comments to the PUC.
October 16, 2013
Plymouth Rock Energy, LLC has sought changes to the pricing of default natural gas supply at KeySpan New York (National Grid) to remove barriers to competition.
October 14, 2013
Another U.S. District Court has found that state-procured capacity contracts which are offered into the Reliability Pricing Model violate federal law, but this recent decision is more narrowly tailored and does not raise (as much) issues regarding states' general ability to set wholesale rates for…
October 11, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC approved new default service rates for both large and mass market default service customers at Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. (UES) for the six-month period beginning December 1, 2013.
October 11, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has scheduled for December 10 a workshop concerning a review of the certain default service rules contained in Chapter 4901:1-35, Ohio Administrative Code.
October 10, 2013
Public Service Company of New Hampshire is forecasting an increase in its energy service (default service) rate for the period starting January 1, 2014.
October 9, 2013
Connecticut's default service procurement manager, Jeff Gaudiosi, alleged that he was the recipient of a sales call from a retail supplier which included information that, "was not accurate," including an allegation that the sales rep cited default service rates as high as 10 cents.
October 8, 2013
Staff of the New Jersey BPU have issued for comment a series of questions relating to the potential removal of the RPS requirement from the BGS procurement process, and also asked about transferring the RPS obligation of retail suppliers to the electric distribution companies.
October 8, 2013
PECO has posted results from its September procurement of a portion of electric default service supplies for various periods through 2015.
October 7, 2013
AEP Ohio has sought a waiver to its corporate separation plan from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to allow it to retain contractual entitlements from generating resources owned by Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC), as other owners of OVEC have not consented to the assumption of these…
October 4, 2013
A Connecticut retail electric supplier has "defaulted" and its customers were dropped to utility service.
October 3, 2013
"I don't think we're counting on there being a lot of states opening up [for retail choice] over the course of the next two to three years," Ken Hartwick, CEO of Just Energy, said at the Gulf Coast Power Association fall conference.
October 2, 2013
A nonsensical opinion from a federal court appears to void state public service commissions' ability to set the prices paid to their wholesale default service providers, because "state action that regulates" within the field of "setting wholesale electric energy and capacity rates or prices" is…
October 1, 2013
The Illinois Power Agency on September 30 filed a default service procurement plan with the Illinois Commerce Commission (13-0546) which seeks to return to the purchase of fixed energy blocks to serve default service load.
September 23, 2013
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 October.
September 18, 2013
The potential need for a nonbypassable charge on customers at Delmarva Power in Delaware, to recover costs of long-term wind PPAs used to supply the SOS portfolio, has not materialized, and Delaware PSC Staff no longer consider impacts from customer migration to be an issue in the near future, the…
September 13, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC approved a settlement in UGI Utilities' default service proceeding which relies on block energy purchases for a portion of default service load for residential and small commercial electric customers.
September 13, 2013
Several Connecticut legislators, addressing the National Energy Marketers Association Connecticut Policy Leadership Roundtable, expressed skepticism about a retail auction of electric default service customers, and said that addressing the auction through the budget process, rather than the Energy &…
September 13, 2013
Default service electric customers in Connecticut have done systemically less well in terms of electric generation costs than customers who have exercised choice, which compels changes to the market, Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection…
September 13, 2013
Pennsylvania has launched its third investigation in the last 10 years to jumpstart the chronically "dismal" retail natural gas market, but the PUC's track record with its prior investigations, as well as its recently concluded retail electric market investigation, should counsel any retail…
