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April 22, 2025
SCANA Energy Marketing, LLC Regulated Division has petitioned the Georgia PSC to extend for an additional year the supplier's status as the AGL market's Regulated Provider
April 22, 2025
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new PTC Default rates to be in effect for the six-month period June 1, 2025 through November 30, 2025
April 18, 2025
Commonwealth Edison has filed updated indicative Purchased Electricity Charges (PECs) for default service customers for the period starting June 1, 2025
April 16, 2025
The New Hampshire PUC approved without modification Public Service of New Hampshire's (Eversource) proposal to serve 50% of its small customer group default service load from ISO New England market purchases, on a self-serve basis, for the August 2025 to January 2026 period
April 16, 2025
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2025
April 16, 2025
About $6.5 million in under-recovered default service costs for the large customer class at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource or the "Company"), the growth of which helped jump start consideration of changes to default service reconciliations, including making such reconciliations…
April 15, 2025
A consultant retained by Pepco, at the direction of the District of Columbia PSC, to conduct an audit of the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge, has recommended that the current bypassable Adder included in the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge at Pepco should be, "tied more closely to competitive third-party…
April 11, 2025
At Unitil, the New Hampshire PUC approved increasing the amount of default service electricity supplies self-served from the ISO New England real-time market to 50% for Non-G1 (mass market) customers, for the period August 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026
April 10, 2025
PUC Approves New Utility Time Of Use Generation Rate Option For Non-Shopping Customers
As the Pennsylvania PUC approved without modification a generally available new Time of Use generation rate offering from Duquesne Light, Pennsylvania PUC Chair Stephen DeFrank stated, "I think we should explore any and all options to help customers protect themselves from rising energy prices."
April 2, 2025
A Request for Proposals process to procure electric supplies for Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers at the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities, for a term of June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026, failed to attract any conforming bids
March 31, 2025
The Connecticut PURA adopted, without substantive modification from an earlier draft, an annual report to lawmakers concerning the state of electric competition
March 31, 2025
Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC has filed in Pennsylvania its customary quarterly adjustment to the natural gas commodity supply cost, which also results in a higher merchant function charge, given the operation of how the MFC is calculated
March 21, 2025
A draft Connecticut PURA annual report to lawmakers concerning the state of electric competition is proposed to once again include a comparison of retail supplier rates and default service rates -- after omitting the customary data in last year's report
March 19, 2025
The PUC of Ohio granted, without modification, a petition (styled as a request for clarification) from Dayton Power and Light (AES Ohio) for approval for AES Ohio to procure default service supply contracts beyond the August 30, 2026 end date of AES Ohio's current electric security plan
March 19, 2025
The PUC of Ohio has directed Duke Energy Ohio to undertake measures meant to increase participation of retail suppliers in solicitations to provide natural gas supply to Duke's Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers.
March 18, 2025
PUC Addresses Call For Disqualification Of All 3 Commissioners, Recusal Of Hearing Examiner
The New Hampshire PUC will not consider potential hedging of default service electricity supplies in an upcoming adjudication of default service issues at Granite State Electric (Liberty Utilities) for the six-month delivery period beginning August 1, 2025, as the PUC will instead defer…
March 14, 2025
Baltimore Gas & Electric in Maryland has filed a further revision to its mass market SOS energy rates for the period June 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025, as a result of the completion of PJM's 3rd incremental capacity auction (IA) for the delivery year 2025/2026
March 13, 2025
The Maryland PSC today issued an order on the application and related issues concerning the new residential retail energy price caps. All provisions in this story apply to residential service only.
March 6, 2025
New POR Discount Could Be In 10% Range, Or Higher
The District of Columbia PSC has again instructed Pepco to re-calculate an update to the residential POR discount rate (originally envisioned to take effect in July 2024), as the PSC concluded, "there is no simple way to mitigate a high POR Discount Rate without impacting non-POR ratepayers."
February 28, 2025
Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC has filed in Pennsylvania an interim increase in its natural gas commodity supply cost, which also results in a higher merchant function charge, given the operation of how the MFC is calculated
February 28, 2025
The Massachusetts DPU has approved filings by Liberty Utilities to defer reconciliations of its gas supply cost that would otherwise be incorporated into Liberty's bypassable gas adjustment factor (GAF) at this time
February 25, 2025
In response to a Massachusetts DPU directive to cut residential bills by 5% during the peak winter season (story here) , Liberty Utilities in Massachusetts has proposed deferring reconciliations of its residential gas supply cost that would otherwise be incorporated into its bypassable GAF at this…
February 21, 2025
In a letter concerning Duquesne Light's proposal to make a Time of Use generation rate generally available to all default service customers (not only EV owners), the Retail Energy Supply Association asked the Pennsylvania PUC to direct Duquesne Light to make customers aware of TOU rate plans…
February 21, 2025
The Massachusetts DPU has ordered all of the state's investor-owned natural gas distribution companies to file revised reconciling factors that will result in no less than a 5% reduction in residential and residential low-income average bills for the remainder of the peak season (March and April…
February 21, 2025
PUCO has revealed the winning bidders from the Standard Choice Offer auction at the East Ohio Gas Company d/b/a Enbridge Gas Ohio (formerly Dominion East Ohio) for the period April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026
