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December 20, 2010
The Maine PUC has issued an RFP to select a green power provider to offer a REC offset product available to Standard Offer customers of the utilities in an amount equal to 50% or 100% of the customer's usage.
December 16, 2010
Md. PSC Eliminates Minimum Stay in BGE Gas Tariff The Maryland PSC approved Baltimore Gas & Electric's revisions to its Gas Service Tariff to remove a provision from Rate Schedules C and D that required customers to remain with a supplier for at least three months prior to switching to another…
December 10, 2010
The Maine PUC has approved new Standard Offer rates for the residential and small commercial customer class at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric
December 9, 2010
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio filed a report examining whether a Standard Choice Offer (SCO) supplier's direct relationship with a retail customer at Dominion East Ohio provides that supplier with an advantage in enrolling those customers onto other choice products, particularly…
December 9, 2010
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio believes that Duke Energy Ohio should submit an electric security plan as an alternative to its proposed market rate offer (10-2586-EL-SSO).
December 6, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities filed a petition with the Pennsylvania PUC requesting approval of the procurement of a 50 MW block of fixed price default supply for residential customers through a 10-year unit contingent procurement, as provided in its default service settlement.
December 6, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a proposed calculation of its 2011 Transmission Service Charge for the period January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2011.
December 3, 2010
The Pennsylvania PUC approved PPL Electric's optional Time of Use (TOU) generation tariff as filed for the period January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2013.
December 2, 2010
A proposed order from an Illinois ALJ which would find that the Illinois Power Agency is compelled to purchase physical renewable energy under the Illinois Power Agency Act contravenes definitions in the statute itself as well as Illinois Commerce Commission precedent, ICC Staff, Commonwealth Edison…
November 24, 2010
PPL Electric Utilities, the Office of Consumer Advocate, the Office of Small Business Advocate and several other parties have submitted a settlement that resolves all but one issue regarding changes to the procurement of solar RECs (SRECs) for PPL's residential default service customers…
November 24, 2010
A proposed order from an Illinois ALJ would require the Illinois Power Agency to procure long-term contracts for physical renewable energy to serve Commonwealth Edison and Ameren customers under the IPA's 2011 procurement plan (10-0563, see 9/30 ).
November 24, 2010
Opt-out municipal aggregation programs, regardless of whether they are run by home rule municipalities, "operate in contravention to 66 Pa. C.S. § 2807(d)(1) and 52 Pa. Code § 57.173, thereby making them impermissible," the Pennsylvania PUC Office of Trial Staff said in supporting petitions for a…
November 23, 2010
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved tariff changes, with one modification, at Dominion East Ohio which will limit the rate that competitive suppliers may charge under the tariffed "Monthly Variable Rate Commodity Service," which serves as a backstop for customers whose competitive…
November 23, 2010
Penn Power has filed updated Price to Compare information for the period December 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011 as follows:
November 23, 2010
Finding that National Grid's proposed method of cost recovery is not prohibited by statute, the Massachusetts DPU approved National Grid's power purchase agreement with Cape Wind, including its petition to recover above-market costs from all distribution customers through a nonbypassable charge…
November 23, 2010
The average generation rate for commercial customers on Rate GS at PECO will increase from 5.71¢/kWh to 8.98¢/kWh effective November 30, 2010, under a further reconciliation of PECO's competitive transition charge.
November 22, 2010
PECO has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC (P-00072260) for approval to apply non-solar, Tier I alternative energy credits (AECs) obtained and banked during its "cost recovery period" (the period during which rate caps were in place) under the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Act (AEPS) towards…
November 19, 2010
The New York PSC approved without modification Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation's plan to expand mandatory hourly pricing to non-shopping S.C. No. 2 customers with demand greater than 300 kW in any two months during the twelve months ended June 30, 2010 (09-E-0588).
November 17, 2010
CRA International has posted the winning bidders from the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' recent auction for Standard Service Offer supplies:
November 17, 2010
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has sought approval from the Pennsylvania PUC to revise its accounting methodology for gas in storage inventory from an annual last-in/first out (LIFO) methodology to the weighted average cost of gas (WACOG) methodology, effective January 1, 2011 (P-2010-2209925).
November 16, 2010
Duke Energy Ohio has proposed a market rate offer to procure and price the electric supplies of Standard Service Offer (SSO) customers for the period beginning January 1, 2012, with the rate design including a potentially nonbypassable generation cost reconciliation rider (10-2586-EL-SSO).
November 12, 2010
Western Massachusetts Electric Co. has filed default service rates for the six-month period beginning January 1, 2011 for small customers, and the three-month period beginning January 1, 2011 for large customers.
November 12, 2010
West Penn Power (Allegheny) confirmed Price to Compare information for the period beginning January 1, 2011.
November 11, 2010
Baltimore Gas & Electric confirmed that prices posted on its website are actual rates which will be used in its electric supply price comparison information, minus the Energy Cost Adjustment (Rider 8), for residential and Type I SOS customers for the period June 1, 2011 through September 30, 2011.
November 8, 2010
Baltimore Gas & Electric filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the three-moth period beginning December 1, 2010. BGE has not yet filed an updated tariff reflecting Type I SOS rates for the period June 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011 as a result of its recent procurement for such…
