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January 10, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio adopted a stipulation which provides triggers for Columbia Gas' automatic exit from the merchant function for non-residential customers, and adopted mechanisms to allocate any non-shopping customers at that time, and any future non-shopping customers.
January 4, 2013
The Pennsylvania PUC, via Secretarial Letter, has delayed the deadline by which Customer Assistance Program (CAP) electric customers at PECO must be given the ability to participate in retail choice.
January 3, 2013
Baltimore Gas and Electric has filed the amount for bypassable Rider 8, Energy Cost Adjustment, for the period February 2013 through May 2013
January 2, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has approved a 34% increase in the energy service (default service) rate at Public Service Company of New Hampshire, effective January 1.
January 2, 2013
A collaborative examining the potential to remove Philadelphia Gas Works from the default supplier role has "irreparably stalled," said the Pennsylvania PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement, as I&E Staff sought a PUC order ceasing informal discussions in favor of hearings.
December 26, 2012
The New Hampshire PUC approved new default service rates at Granite State Electric Company d/b/a Liberty Utilities for large and medium commercial and industrial customers (Large Customer Group), for the period from February 1, through April 30, 2013.
December 24, 2012
The Maryland PSC has approved Baltimore Gas & Electric's true-up to the bypassable charges applicable to Type II SOS customers, which are designed to recover prior rate mitigation credits, with the true-up resulting in Type II Schedule GS SOS customers receiving a nearly 3¢/kWh credit for the month…
December 24, 2012
Ohio Power Company (AEP Ohio) has proposed the rules and format for a competitive energy-only auction to supply a portion of default service load for the period August 1, 2013 through May 31, 2015, prior to the start of fully auction-based default service.
December 24, 2012
A written order from the Illinois Commerce Commission on the Illinois Power Agency procurement plan provides that customers on competitive supply, and not alternative retail electric suppliers themselves, will be charged a share of the costs from the procurement of supply from the FutureGen 2.0…
December 21, 2012
PECO has recorded its third consecutive week of witnessing a decline in the total number of electric customers on competitive supply, but the decline has now reached the residential class as well, according to the December 19 stats from the Pennsylvania PUC.
December 20, 2012
Dayton Power & Light shall be allowed to continue charging customers a nonbypassable Rate Stabilization Charge (RSC), which acts as a provider of last resort (POLR) charge, under the extension of its current electric security plan (ESP) beyond December 31, 2012.
December 20, 2012
The Illinois Commerce Commission yesterday entered an order approving the Illinois Power Agency's 2013 default service procurement plan, which orders the utilities to procure power from a clean coal plant, and then charge retail suppliers a share of such costs.
December 19, 2012
PUCO today deferred consideration of both settlements for consideration on its next agenda
December 19, 2012
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a revised retail opt-in program, which takes the place of a previously proposed retail auction, and, as Matters understands the new proposal, the opt-in program may leave customers desiring to take service under the program unable to participate, even though…
December 18, 2012
Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. has filed with the New York PSC an implementation plan to expand the company's Mandatory Day-Ahead Hourly Pricing (MDAHP) default service program to customers with demands above 100 kW.
December 17, 2012
New York has lost its position as the second-highest ranked state for a competitive residential retail electric market under the latest Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), providing a cautionary vision of markets which flirt with, but ultimately fail to…
December 14, 2012
Texas Approves $500,000 Settlement With Constellation
December 13, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has initiated an investigation of the state's retail electric market, asking, among other things, whether default service should continue in its current form.
December 12, 2012
The end-state retail market design proposed in a Pennsylvania PUC tentative order, because it retains subsidized default service offered by a single, utility provider granted automatic cost recovery, "are more likely to set competition back than to move it forward," several retail suppliers said in…
December 10, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed winning bidders from the recent auction for Standard Service Offer supplies at Duke Energy Ohio.
December 6, 2012
The Maine PUC announced that the enrollment period for residential and small non-residential customers at Central Maine Power to elect a Time of Use option under Standard Offer service has begun.
December 6, 2012
On the basis of rate stability, the Pennsylvania PUC approved the continuation of a "stratified" procurement of default service at Citizens' Electric Company of Lewisburg, PA and Wellsboro Electric Company, for the period June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2015.
December 6, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC denied a request from Direct Energy to recover purchase of receivables uncollectibles, as well as default service uncollectibles, through a nonbypassable charge at PPL, and also adopted an ALJ's recommendation regarding the level for the POR discount rates.
December 3, 2012
The default electric service rate at Duke Energy Ohio will decrease as a result of an updated Alternative Energy Recovery Rider (Rider AER-R).
December 3, 2012
A power supply agreement (PSA) between Ohio Power Company and affiliate AEP Generation Resources Inc., meant to serve Standard Service Offer load for the period between the corporate separation of Ohio Power's generating assets and the start of fully auction-based SSO supply, could result in the…
