April 19, 2017
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 for the month of May 2017
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April 18, 2017
Residential Default Service Rates Increase At Most FirstEnergy Pennsylvania EDCs (Over 10% At Some EDCs)
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed new tariffed residential PTC Default rates with the PUC for the three-month period starting June 1, 2017
April 18, 2017
PECO Residential Generation Rate To Fall, Commercial Rates Increase
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the period beginning June 1, 2017
April 14, 2017
DTE Lowers Natural Gas Default Service Rate
DTE Energy said that its supply cost for natural gas default service has decreased 9%
April 13, 2017
Ohio Discloses Winning Bidders From Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) disclosed the winning bidders from Duke Energy Ohio’s fifth wholesale auction that will determine its retail generation service rates through May 2018.
April 13, 2017
PUCO Reports Price From DP&L Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) has accepted the results of Dayton Power & Light Company’s (DP&L) wholesale auction results, the first in a series of wholesale auctions that will ultimately determine its standard service offer through May 2020.
April 13, 2017
Under Supplemental Auction, PUC Awards To Retail Supplier 51% of Certain Low-Income Customer Load
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has awarded, to a retail electric supplier, 51% of the load of Duke Energy Ohio's electricity Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) for the term June 1, 2017 through May 31, 2018
April 10, 2017
Utility Steps In To Default Service Role, Seeks That Administrative Costs Be Recovered From All Customers, Not Only SOS Customers
Emera Maine - Maine Public District (Maine Public Service) will serve as the Standard Offer provider for its large customer class for the period April 1, 2017 through December 31, 2019, under an alternative default service mechanism that was approved after an RFP did not produce any qualifying bids
April 7, 2017
Pa. PUC Proposes To Rely on Wholesale Suppliers To Serve Time Of Use Default Service
In a secretarial letter, the Pennsylvania PUC has proposed a mechanism for PPL Electricity Utilities to comply with its obligation as a default service supplier to offer a Time of Use rate option to customers
April 6, 2017
Utility's Default Service Rates To Increase, Discloses Winning Suppliers
Unitil has filed with the New Hampshire PUC default service rates for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2017
April 6, 2017
Regulator Orders Municipal Aggregations To Disclose Adder Paid To Consultant In Opt-Out Notices, State That Rates Not Guaranteed To Beat Default Service
Revises Treatment of New Customers in Aggregation Areas
The Massachusetts DPU has issued orders requiring electricity municipal opt-out aggregations to disclose, in customer opt-out notices, administrative adders that are used to compensate the aggregation's consultant, and revised the treatment of new customers moving to the aggregation service area.
April 6, 2017
RFP For Retail Suppliers To Serve Low-Income Customers Receives No Conforming Bids
Duke Energy Ohio's April 4 RFP for retail suppliers to serve a portion of Duke's electricity Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) customers received no conforming bids, according to a report from the auction manager
April 5, 2017
Massachusetts Default Service Rates To Increase
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU electric basic service rates for the period beginning June 1, 2017.
March 31, 2017
PECO Posts Prices From Default Service Procurement
PECO has posted results from its March 2017 procurement of a portion of electric default service supplies for various periods through 2019.
March 30, 2017
Ohio Reports Price From Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) accepted the results of AEP Ohio’s wholesale auction that will determine its standard service offer through May 2018.
March 24, 2017
Maine PUC Sets New Default Service Rates For Mass Market Customers
The Maine Public Utilities Commission has set new prices for Standard Offer electricity supply for customers of Emera Maine – Maine Public District (Maine Public Service).
March 23, 2017
Ohio Approves Results From Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) accepted the results of Duke Energy Ohio’s fifth wholesale auction that will determine its retail generation service rates through May 2018.
March 23, 2017
Ohio Approves Interim Default Service Procurement
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved Dayton Power & Light's proposal to conduct a procurement of default service supplies, for the delivery period beginning June 1, 2017, while DP&L's electric security plan is still being adjudicated.
March 22, 2017
Utility To Include Default Service Costs In Nonbypassable Rider
As part of Duke Energy Ohio's newly filed electric rate case in Ohio, Duke Energy Ohio would include certain costs related to the regulatory administration of default service in a new nonbypassable regulatory mandates rider
March 22, 2017
Utility: Greater Transparency Needed On Muni Aggregation Pricing
Greater transparency and customer education is needed concerning opt-out municipal aggregations, Nstar (Eversource) said in comments to the Massachusetts DPU, expressing concerns that aggregation customers may end up paying higher rates.
March 17, 2017
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 for the month of April 2017
March 17, 2017
Pa. PUC Assigns PECO CAP Shopping Program Design To ALJ For Further Proceedings
The Pennsylvania PUC, granting in part a rehearing request from low-income customer advocates, has assigned the issue of Customer Assistance Program (CAP) electricity customer shopping at PECO to an ALJ for further proceedings.
March 16, 2017
National Grid Files New Default Service Rates
National Grid has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for residential and commercial customers for the six-month period beginning April 1, 2017, and for industrial customers, for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2017
March 15, 2017
Utilities Update Proposed Changes To Bypassable Default Service Adders Based On Rate Case
Pepco and Delmarva Power in Maryland recently filed updates to the proposed levels for a revised SOS Administrative Charge, based on updated underlying costs as established in recently adjudicated rate cases at each company.
March 14, 2017
Implementation of Utility Billing Of Non-Commodity Retail Supplier Charges Dropped Under Revised Default Service Stipulation
A revised stipulation, which now includes PUCO Staff as a signatory, governing Dayton Power & Light's electric security plan would revise certain pilot retail market enhancements which would have been required under an earlier stipulation.