August 13, 2019
CL&P, UI Disclose Default Service Suppliers
Connecticut Light & Power reported that Exelon Generation Company will serve CL&P's Last Resort Service load for the fourth quarter of 2019.
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August 13, 2019
United Illuminating Files New Default Service Rates
United Illuminating has filed new Last Resort Service rates with the Connecticut PURA for the period beginning October 1, 2019
August 12, 2019
PUC Staff Recommend Amount Previously Collected From Default Service Customers Be Credited To Customers
Consistent with a prior recommendation, Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended that AEP Ohio credit to customers PUCO and OCC assessment fees collected from customers under gross-up factor applied to the bypassable auction cost reconciliation rider (ACRR) for the period…
August 9, 2019
Claim: Subsidized Ohio Generation Will Artificially Reduce Price To Compare, Force Retail Suppliers To Leave Market
Claim: Electric Competition Has Saved Ohio Customers Nearly $9 Billion From 2016-18 (Uses Muni Aggregation Rates As Proxy For All Mass Market Migrated Customers)
August 8, 2019
Pennsylvania PUC Stays Order Approving Modified PECO Prepay Pilot Program
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued an order staying its prior order approving a modified prepaid pilot for electricity and dual-fuel customers at PECO
August 6, 2019
RESA: Over $200 Million In Savings Available To Residential Customers Under Massachusetts Retail Electric Choice Through First Half Of Year
Responding to the latest report issued by the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Retail Energy Supply Association (RESA) said that an analysis shows that over $200 million in savings were available to Massachusetts residential customers from retail electric choice during the first sixth months of…
August 6, 2019
Utility Reports Switches To Default Service From Retail Suppliers Resulting From Utility Notice To Customers Of Incorrect Default Service Rates
United Illuminating has filed a report concerning customer response to a notice of incorrect default service rates that had been posted in May
August 5, 2019
New Hampshire Opt-Out Municipal Aggregation Bill Becomes Law
New Hampshire SB 286 has made it through the legislative process, has been signed by the governor, and has become a chaptered law (Chapter 316 of 2019)
August 2, 2019
PSC Staff Propose Long-Term Renewable Contract Equal To 5% Of SOS Load Should Not Be Used To Serve SOS Customers
Staff of the District of Columbia PSC have said that a previously directed procurement of a long-term renewable PPA for 5% of SOS load should not be used to serve SOS load, and said that the PPA's products should instead be sold into the wholesale market, with all distribution customers receiving a…
August 2, 2019
PSC Denies OPC Request For Utilities To Provide Aggregate Costs For Retail Supply Customers Versus Shadow-Billed Default Service
The Maryland PSC has again denied a request from the Office of People's Counsel for the utilities to provide OPC with the total aggregate amounts that shopping customers paid in retail supply charges and the total aggregate amount such customers would have paid for default service from the utility.
August 1, 2019
PPL Suggests Consideration of Requiring All Customer Assistance Program (CAP) Customers To Be Served Under Default Service
RESA Proposes Alternative Pricing Benchmark To Allow CAP Shopping
Parties have filed comments on a proposed Pennsylvania PUC policy statement that would restrict shopping for electric Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers to a product whose rate does not exceed the default service Price to Compare at any time
July 31, 2019
Delay Of PJM 2022-23 Capacity Auction Already Impacting Default Service Procurements
One PUC Changes Default Service Product Due To Delay Another PSC Initiates Review Of Issue
FERC's previously reported decision directing PJM not to conduct the 2022-23 base residual auction for PJM's capacity market during August as PJM had planned is already impacting default service procurements
July 29, 2019
Four EGSs Propose Retail Bid Process To Assign Default Service Obligation To Retail Suppliers In Pennsylvania
In comments filed in the Pennsylvania PUC's review of default service cost assignment, rate structure, and procurement issues, a coalition of retail electric suppliers proposed that the default service obligation be assigned to retail electric generation suppliers (EGSs) via a competitive bidding…
July 26, 2019
Pennsylvania PUC's Consumer Advisory Council Opposes Contemplated Changes To Default Service, Says Customers Can Shop For A Retail Supplier If Innovative Rate Desired
Generators: "Opportune Time" For Pennsylvania To Reconsider Non-Utility Default Service Providers
Several stakeholders have filed comments in the Pennsylvania PUC's review of default service cost assignment, rate structure, and procurement issues
July 23, 2019
Update: PECO Price To Compare To Increase For Residential, Small Commercial Customers On Sept. 1
PECO has posted new electric Prices To Compare for the period beginning September 1, 2019
July 22, 2019
BGE Files New SOS Rates
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning September 1, 2019
July 18, 2019
PUC: All Customers Benefit From Availability Of Default Service, Certain Costs Of Default Service Are Unavoidable, Appropriately Included In Distribution Rates
Affirms Denial Of Unbundling Proposal
In denying a rehearing request from IGS Energy in a Duke Energy Ohio electric security plan and rate case, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio affirmed that, "all customers benefit from Duke’s ability to provide the SSO [standard service offer]," and the recovery of certain administrative and…
July 17, 2019
Maine PUC Sets New Standard Offer Rates
The Maine PUC has set the Standard Offer rates for the large non-residential classes at Central Maine Power and Bangor Hydro-Electric (Emera-BHD) for the month of August 2019.
July 17, 2019
PECO Generation Supply Charge To Increase For Residential, Small Commercial Customers on Sept. 1
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the period beginning September 1, 2019
July 16, 2019
Most FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Prices To Compare To Fall On September 1, Met-Ed Residential Rate Increasing
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed new tariffed residential and commercial PTC Default rates with the PUC for the three-month period starting September 1, 2019
July 10, 2019
Regulator Schedules Hearing In Review Of Moving All Hardship Customers To Default Service
The Connecticut PURA has scheduled the dates for a hearing on its proceeding reviewing feasibility, costs, and benefits of placing hardship customers on Standard Service pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. Section 16-245o(m)
July 9, 2019
Duquesne Light Default Supply Rate To Fall Another 14%
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC the default service supply rate for Medium Commercial & Industrial customers for the period beginning September 1, 2019
July 3, 2019
PSC Schedules Working Group Meeting To Address Long-Term Contracts For Default Service
The District of Columbia PSC will hold the third Standard Offer Service Working Group meeting on Thursday, July 11, 2019.
July 3, 2019
PUCO Seeks Additional Briefing On Dayton Power & Light Electric Security Plan (Default Service), Due To Recent Court Decision On Other EDCs' Rider
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has requested from parties further briefing on the electric security plan at Dayton Power & Light, due to the inclusion in a stipulation (which itself is being contested after withdrawal of a retail supplier) of a distribution modernization rider (Rider DMR)…
June 28, 2019
BGE Files Updated SOS Rates Due To New Bypassable Transmission Rates, Also Reflects Impact On Bypassable Admin. Charge
Baltimore Gas and Electric has filed with the Maryland PSC updates to its bypassable transmission rates, and, due to the updated transmission rate, a revised bypassable SOS Administrative Charge, due to the impact of the new transmission rate on the cash working capital (CWC) component of the Admin…