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December 21, 2022
Duquesne Light Says Communicating That Customer Is Paying Rate Higher Than PTC Is Consistent With Statutory Policy To Keep Uncollectible Expenses Low
December 13, 2022
The default service (energy service) rate for the Small customer group at Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) d/b/a Eversource Energy is set to fall about 10% for the six-month period beginning February 1, 2023
December 12, 2022
The Massachusetts DPU denied a petition from National Grid which had sought to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their…
December 12, 2022
The Ohio electric distribution utilities have filed new minimum stay provisions, applicable to large municipal aggregation loads returning to standard offer service
December 5, 2022
The Connecticut PURA directed Connecticut Light & Power (Eversource) to cease implementation of CL&P's plan to streamline the process for hardship customers to opt into electric choice, which requires that such customers forfeit their hardship status
December 1, 2022
The Retail Energy Advancement League ('REAL') requested that the Connecticut PURA Authority close PURA's current investigation into whether retail supplier offers are just and reasonable, "as the current market confirms that there can be no proof that electric supplier products are overpriced or…
December 1, 2022
The Retail Energy Supply Association and NRG Energy, Inc. filed a petition at the Pennsylvania PUC for a declaratory order finding that certain communications sent by PPL Electric Utilities (PPL or PPL Electric) to supply customers of electric generation suppliers (EGSs) about their electric supply…
November 28, 2022
Connecticut Light & Power (Eversource) informed the Connecticut PURA that it plans to streamline the process for hardship customers to opt into electric choice, which requires that such customers forfeit their hardship status
November 23, 2022
The New Hampshire PUC denied a request from Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) to modify PSNH's default service process to provide that PSNH may self-supply, through ISO-NE market purchases, any unfilled default service tranches to the extent an RFP fails, and denied PSNH's…
November 21, 2022
Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) has petitioned the New Hampshire PUC to modify the current default energy service framework to allow the potential for PSNH to self-supply default service based on ISO-NE market procurements, and to provide for a confidential technical session…
November 18, 2022
Nstar (Eversource Energy) has filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for its Eastern MA service area for the period beginning January 1, 2023
November 17, 2022
United Illuminating has filed new default service rates with the Connecticut PURA for the period beginning January 1, 2023
November 17, 2022
Connecticut Light & Power has filed Standard Service rates for the period January 2023 through June 2023, and Last Resort Service Rates for the period January 2023 through March 2023
November 17, 2022
Utility Says Action Would Lower SOS Rates In Time Of Rising Prices
National Grid has filed a petition at the Massachusetts DPU to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their actual costs…
November 17, 2022
As the Connecticut electric utilities filed new default service rates that are in some cases 100% higher than current rates (see related stories today), Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont stated, "In the coming days, I will be calling the General Assembly into special session to adopt legislation…
November 15, 2022
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service electricity rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO, for the period beginning January 1, 2023
November 15, 2022
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (Commission) accepted bids and set new Standard Offer electricity supply rates today for residential and business customers of Versant Power, Bangor Hydro District (BHE).
November 4, 2022
Retail Suppliers Must "Restore Confidence" In Markets Outside of Texas, Vistra CEO Says
During a Q&A as part of Vistra's third quarter earnings call, Jim Burke, president and CEO of Vistra, said that he thinks new brands such as Tesla, Shell, and bp entering the retail energy markets can help efforts to change market designs to allow retail suppliers to offer innovative products to…
November 1, 2022
PPL Electric Utilities has posted new Prices to Compare for the period December 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023
October 26, 2022
Several Maryland utilities have filed new small customer SOS rates for the period June 2023 through September 2023 (Pepco, Delmarva), while all four IOUs have filed new Type II SOS Rates for the period beginning December 1, 2023
October 21, 2022
The October 2022 procurement for Type I SOS supplies at Baltimore Gas & Electric failed to attract any offers below the Price Anomaly Threshold (PAT).
October 19, 2022
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has opened periodic reviews, as required by statute, of the rules governing electric security plans, competitive bidding plans, and the Standard Service Offer (Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4901:1-35, Case 22-862-EL-ORD); utility affiliates (OAC Chapter 4901:1-37…
October 18, 2022
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed new tariffed residential PTC-Default rates with the Pennsylvania PUC for the three-month period starting December 1, 2022
October 17, 2022
Lubbock Power & Light has posted its RFP to select a default retail electric provider (DREP) for customers not making an affirmative selection prior to the introduction of retail electric choice, and for Providers of Last Resort (POLRs and voluntary POLRs, or VREPs) (RFP# 7113-23-EUA)
October 14, 2022
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the period beginning December 1, 2022
