March 5, 2013
Shock: Largest Retail Supplier Endorses Laddered Three-Year SOS Contracts
The nation's largest retail supplier has endorsed continuation of a three-year laddered portfolio of SOS contracts in the District of Columbia.
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March 1, 2013
Pennsylvania Sets New Bypassable Gas Procurement Charge at UGI Companies
The Pennsylvania PUC adopted without modification a settlement to establish the level of new, bypassable Gas Procurement Charges at the three UGI natural gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania.
March 1, 2013
Duquesne Light Receives Approval for Modified Default Service Procurement Dates
The Pennsylvania PUC approved Duquesne Light's petition for approval of revised procurement dates for residential and small commercial SOS, in light of the PUC's recent order requiring that procurements occur no earlier than 5 months prior to the start of delivery.
February 27, 2013
Ohio Staff Posts Price from Auction to Set Standard Choice Offer Rate at Columbia Gas
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have filed the Retail Price Adjustment resulting from Columbia Gas' Standard Choice Offer auction, for default service for the period April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014.
February 26, 2013
Resident Power Seeks Declaratory Order on Ability to Switch Former PNE Energy Supply Customers
On February 22, aggregator Resident Power LLC petitioned the New Hampshire PUC for a declaratory order that its transfer of aggregation customers from customers originally placed with PNE Energy Supply, LLC, who were dropped to default service due to a PNE Energy Supply default, to a new competitive…
February 26, 2013
FirstEnergy Doesn't Expect "Significant Changes" from Ohio Retail Market Investigation
FirstEnergy does not expect the retail electric market investigation newly launched by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to result in "significant changes" to the market rules, the company told investors yesterday in reporting earnings.
February 25, 2013
Reliant to Take on Greater Role in PECO Dynamic Pricing Pilot
PECO has proposed to assign to Reliant a greater role in PECO's dynamic pricing pilot.
February 22, 2013
Retail Supplier Loses Ability to Serve Customers; Mass Transition to Default Service Executed
PNE Energy Supply, "is no longer able to purchase electric energy for its customers," prompting a transition of customers to default service, the New Hampshire PUC announced in a posting on its website and advisory to customers.
February 20, 2013
Ohio Staff Posts Price from Auction to Set Standard Choice Offer Rate at Dominion East Ohio
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have filed the Retail Price Adjustment resulting from Dominion East Ohio's Standard Choice Offer auction, for default service for the period April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014.
February 20, 2013
Pennsylvania Talks, Connecticut Acts: CT Master Energy Plan Proposes Auctioning All Standard Service Customers to Retail Suppliers!
Connecticut's Comprehensive Energy Strategy, an energy master plan developed by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, proposes to auction off all remaining Standard Service customers to retail suppliers.
February 18, 2013
United Illuminating Files New Default Service Rates
United Illuminating has filed Last Resort Service Rates for the period April through June 2013.
February 18, 2013
Connecticut Light & Power Files New Default Service Rates
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Last Resort Service Rates for the period April through June 2013. CL&P Last Resort Service Rates, (¢/kWh) Rates 39, 41, 55, 56, 57, & 58 (at or over 500 kW): April: 6.113 May: 5.763 June: 6.383
February 18, 2013
Pennsylvania to Retail Suppliers: You'll Get Nothing and Like It
The Pennsylvania PUC's final order on an end state retail electric market design contains no substantive changes, and virtually no changes at all, sought by retail suppliers to reduce current barriers to competition which have caused migration to competitive supply to slow to a trickle.
February 15, 2013
EPIC FAIL: Pennsylvania Won't Implement Quarterly Mass Market Default Supply Auctions Without Legislative Action
The Pennsylvania PUC's long-winded and much hyped retail market investigation has resulted in the PUC, on its own authority, merely adopting a form of small customer default service contract lengths that is, "more reflective of market conditions than the currently-offered default service products,"…
February 15, 2013
Pennsylvania Grants UGI Request to "Roll Over" Default Service Plan for Additional Year
The Pennsylvania PUC granted the petition of UGI Utilities, Inc. - Electric Division to "roll over" its existing default service plan for customers above 500 kW (GSR 3 Group customers) for an additional one-year period ending May 31, 2014.
February 15, 2013
Some Costs of PECO Opt-In Aggregation Program May Be Collected Through POR Discount, PUC Rules
The Pennsylvania PUC yesterday issued an order regarding various retail electric market enhancement programs at PECO which allows the recovery of implementation costs from retail suppliers through an adjustment to the POR discount rate under certain circumstances.
February 14, 2013
Update: Pennsylvania Commissioners Chide Retail Suppliers for Over-priced Offerings As State Retains Utility-Provided Default Service Model
UPDATE , 10:45 am 2/15: The PUC's final order has been released, and it is even worse than predicted. The PUC is not even going to implement the 90-day auctions for mass market default supply unless the legislature approves such construct. See other breaking story today for further details
February 14, 2013
Update: Pennsylvania Commissioners Chide Retail Suppliers for Over-priced Offerings As State Retains Utility-Provided Default Service Model
PUC Chairman Robert F. Powelson and Vice Chairman John F. Coleman chided retail suppliers for offers "significantly" higher than wholesale prices, and for a lack of "innovative" products, as the PUC adopted an "end-state" market design that changes little in default service structure.
February 14, 2013
Ohio Posts Winning Bidders in FirstEnergy Utilities' Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has posted the winning bidders from the recent default service auction at the FirstEnergy utilities.
February 14, 2013
Growth in Pennsylvania Electric Shopping Continues to Be Challenged
February continues to be a challenging month for growth in residential electric shopping in Pennsylvania, as collectively the state saw its second-lowest weekly migration growth total since at least October of last year.
February 12, 2013
AEP Ohio Files Proposal to Recover Default Service Auction Prices, Costs Through Retail Rates
Ohio Power Company (AEP Ohio) submitted a proposal to PUCO to recover costs from its forthcoming default service energy auctions through retail rates.
February 11, 2013
PECO Posts Results From Default Service Procurement
PECO has posted results from its January 2013 procurement of default service supplies for the period beginning June 1, 2013.
February 8, 2013
Update: New Jersey Discloses Winning BGS Auction Suppliers
The New Jersey BPU has reported winning suppliers in the recent BGS auctions.
February 8, 2013
Growth in Pennsylvania Shopping Craters as State Hits 2 Million Milestone, Questions Arise on Sustainability of Current Default Supplier Model
During the first week of February, Pennsylvania officially surpassed two million electric customers on competitive supply, according to the February 6 migration report from the PUC.
February 7, 2013
New Jersey Default Service Auction Produces Lower Prices for Mass Market Customers in Most Territories
The New Jersey BPU has posted results from the annual Basic Generation Service auctions, which establish the price for default service.