HomeNews By TopicDefault Service
Narrow these results by state, topic, company or docket — filters stack, and every story shown carries all of them.
April 12, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed the list of winning bidders in the recent Dominion East Ohio Standard Choice Offer and Standard Service Offer auctions. Dominion East Ohio SSO Auction Winning Bidders DTE Energy Trading, Inc. Hess Corporation United Energy Trading Dominion East…
April 12, 2011
PECO has filed a petition with the Pennsylvania PUC to allow the company to credit or collect any Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) over or under recoveries, plus associated interest, for residential customers on an annual basis, rather than quarterly as currently provided under its default service…
April 8, 2011
Maryland PSC Staff is "arbitrarily pushing SMECO towards an IOU pricing and procurement process" for Standard Offer Service, the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative said in comments replying to a Staff request for hearing.
April 7, 2011
"[B]arriers that exist in the MISO [Midwest ISO] market make Ameren a less attractive market," than Commonwealth Edison and other PJM residential markets, several retail suppliers told the Illinois Commerce Commission.
April 6, 2011
Penn Power has posted the results from its March procurement of fixed block energy supply to serve a portion of residential default service. The products procured were 25 MW monthly blocks of On-Peak and Off-Peak energy delivered to the Penn Power zone, within the delivery period of June 1, 2011…
April 5, 2011
The Maryland PSC, from the bench, directed the utilities to propose modifications to the current SOS price comparison information language established in June in Case 9228.
April 5, 2011
The threshold for mandatory hourly pricing for default service at Orange & Rockland Utilities would decrease from 500 kW to 300 kW under a stipulation incorporated into a recommended decision in O&R's New York rate case (10-E-0362).
April 4, 2011
The Connecticut DPUC issued a final order continuing the Connecticut Clean Energy Options program, which allows default service customers to purchase RECs without leaving their utility, for the period January 1, 2012, through January 1, 2017 (10-05-07).
April 4, 2011
Met-Ed, Penelec, and Penn Power have announced results from their March solicitation for full requirements default service electric supplies, and have also posted sample calculations for default service rates which incorporate the results of the auctions held so far.
April 1, 2011
The Rhode Island PUC has approved updated SOS rates for Narragansett Electric (National Grid), for various periods beginning April 1, 2011.
April 1, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC will solicit comments regarding whether the provision of supplier referral letters to customers at Met-Ed and Penelec should be delayed given the current minimal number of suppliers offering residential service in the territories (P-2009-2093053 et. al.).
March 29, 2011
The Massachusetts DPU has approved updated basic service electric rates for all customer classes at National Grid.
March 28, 2011
Existing customers at Ameren with peak demands of at least 150 kW and under 400 kW will be moved to hourly default service pricing effective at the end of the April 2014 monthly billing period, after the Illinois Commerce Commission declared those customers to be competitively served.
March 28, 2011
The Retail Energy Supply Association has submitted a petition to the New York PSC to eliminate the posting of electric default service rates on New York's Power to Choose website, citing the, "confusing, inaccurate and misleading" reporting of utility commodity pricing.
March 23, 2011
The New Hampshire PUC approved default service procurements at Granite State Electric (National Grid) which will establish Large Customer rates for the three-month period beginning May 1, 2011, and the rate for Small Customers for the six month period beginning May 1, 2011.
March 22, 2011
The New Hampshire PUC approved default service procurements at Unitil Energy Systems, Inc. which will establish commercial and industrial (G1) rates for the three-month period beginning May 1, 2011, and, when combined with prior procurements, the rate for small commercial and residential (non-G1)…
March 22, 2011
Maryland utilities are using different approaches for the treatment of bypassable reconciliation factors in calculating weighted average SOS prices disclosed to customers, the Office of People's Counsel said in supplemental comments to the PSC.
March 18, 2011
The Pennsylvania PUC's written order prohibiting opt-out municipal aggregation programs developed by home rule municipalities affirms the Commission's "strong preference for individual choice," but finds that the Commission itself may approve an opt-out program under "unique circumstances."
March 18, 2011
A proposed Maryland order which would completely eliminate the bypassable Standard Offer Service administrative charge at Pepco and Delmarva is "contrary to law" and "not supported by the record evidence," Maryland PSC Staff said in a memorandum on appeal to the Commission (Case 9226 & 9232).
March 16, 2011
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio reported a corrected list of winning bidders in the Columbia SSO auction as follows: BP Energy Company; Constellation New Energy-Gas Division; Noble Americas Gas & Power Corp.; DTE Energy Trading, Inc.; Energy America, LLC (Direct Energy); NextEra…
March 16, 2011
"For the [retail electric] industry to be basing its survival on whether or not we enable the procurers of Standard Service power to have various tools [such as managed portfolios] suggests that the reason you're here is solely to offer a commodity, [and] to not grow your value in other ways,"…
March 15, 2011
"[A]s long as default service exists in its current form, we are never going to see robust shopping in the Commonwealth [of Pennsylvania]," PUC Chairman Robert Powelson said in prepared testimony before the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee, which was addressing the PUC's budget.
March 14, 2011
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Staff disclosed that winning bidders in the recent Columbia Gas Standard Service Offer auction were as follows: BP Energy Company; Constellation NewEnergy-Gas Division; Delta Energy LLC; DTE Energy Trading, Inc.; Energy America, LLC (Direct Energy); NextEra Energy…
March 14, 2011
A draft Connecticut DPUC decision would reinstate the Connecticut Clean Energy Options (CCEO) program for the period January 1, 2012 through January 1, 2017, maintaining the use of two REC suppliers which may offer RECs to offset a specified portion of default service customers' usage.
March 14, 2011
Niagara Mohawk would lower the mandatory hourly pricing threshold to 250 kW effective with the June 2013 billing cycle, under an implementation plan filed with the New York PSC (10-E-0050).
