May 9, 2016
Pa. Utility Files Default Service Plan
UGI Utilities, Inc. – Electric Division has petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for approval of a default service plan covering the period June 1, 2017 through May 31, 2021
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May 9, 2016
Pa. Utility Seeks Protections for CAP Customers From Increased Bills Resulting From Shopping, Variable Rate Contracts
Duquesne Light said in its petition for a new default service plan (click here for recent story) that it would support the extension of shopping to Customer Assistance Program (CAP) customers under certain customer protections and conditions
May 5, 2016
Ohio Selects Retail Suppliers To Serve Low-Income Customers
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved the results of RFPs to award to the load of Percentage of Income Payment Plan customers to a retail supplier at the FirstEnergy utilities and Duke Energy Ohio
May 5, 2016
United Illuminating Default Service Rates To Decrease 25%
United Illuminating's residential and small C&I Standard Service Generation Services Charge (GSC) will decrease about 25% on July 1.
May 5, 2016
Connecticut Light & Power Default Service Rates To Decrease 30%
Connecticut Light & Power's residential Standard Service rate will decrease 30% on July 1.
May 5, 2016
Pennsylvania Utilities Select Suppliers For Retail-Like Default Service Program
Citizens' Electric Company and Wellsboro Electric Company in Pennsylvania have awarded default service contracts to a single supplier in each service area to serve the entirety of each EDC's non-hourly default service load for the period June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2018
May 4, 2016
Duquesne Light Seeks To Introduce Longer-Term Contracts for Residential, Small C&I Default Service For Price Stability; May Seek Long-Term Contract To Support Solar Generation; Would Expand Hourly Pricing, Unbundle Certain Costs From Delivery To Default Service Rates
Duquesne Light has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC a proposed default service plan (DSP VIII) for the period June 1, 2017 through May 31, 2021 that would rely on contracts with longer terms to serve residential and small C&I customers.
May 3, 2016
Connecticut Light & Power Discloses Default Service Suppliers
Connecticut Light and Power reported that the following suppliers will serve Standard Service load during the second half of 2016:
May 3, 2016
FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs Seek To Maintain Nonbypassable Rate Stability Rider By Removing Association With PPA (Salvaging ESP Preserves Retail Market Enhancements)
The FirstEnergy Ohio utilities have petitioned the Public Utility Commission of Ohio to modify their recently adopted Retail Rate Stability Rider (RRS) such that the rider is no longer based on PPAs between the utilities and affiliate FirstEnergy Solutions
May 2, 2016
Illinois Posts Prices, Suppliers Under Default Service Procurement
Illinois has posted prices and winning suppliers from the Illinois Power Agency's spring 2016 procurement of block energy supplies for default service customers.
May 2, 2016
BGE Files New Residential, Commercial SOS Rates, Also Updates Transmission, Rider 8
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new residential and Type I SOS rates for the period October 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017, and Type II SOS rates for the period June 1, 2016 to August 31, 2016.
May 2, 2016
PPL Price to Compare To Decrease 15%
PPL Electric's Price to Compare for residential customers will decrease about 6%, and its PTC for small business customers will decrease 14%, on June 1.
April 28, 2016
Ohio Adopts Pricing From FirstEnergy EDCs' Second Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) accepted the results of FirstEnergy’s second wholesale auction held in April that will ultimately determine its Standard Service Offer through May 2019.
April 27, 2016
Potomac Edison Files New SOS Rates
Potomac Edison has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016.
April 25, 2016
Report: Connecticut Consumers Could Have Saved $166 Million Since Start of 2016 by Switching Away from Electric Monopolies
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) recently reviewed current electricity prices publicly available to consumers in Connecticut and found that if all residential customers on utility standard service today had switched to the lowest competitive offers provided at the beginning of the…
April 25, 2016
Ohio Reveals Winning Bidders From AEP Ohio Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has disclosed winning bidders from AEP Ohio's March 2016 default service auction for a portion of default service supplies for the period June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2018
April 25, 2016
Delmarva Power Residential, Commercial SOS Rates To Fall
This story was updated on July 7 to reflect a July 6 Delmarva filing which said that its previously filed tariffs inadvertently switched the rates for the Type I Small General Services SGS-S and Type I Space Heating SGS-S classes. The corrected rates are shown below
April 25, 2016
Pepco Residential, Commercial SOS Rates To Decrease
Pepco has filed with the Maryland PSC new residential and Type I SOS rates for the period beginning October 1, 2016, and new Type II SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016
April 21, 2016
Consumer's Counsel: Residential Customers On Choice Paid $58 Million More Than Default Service in 2015
The Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel said yesterday that, "[d]ata submitted to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority ('PURA') shows that in 2015, Connecticut residential customers of retail electric suppliers paid, in aggregate, approximately $58 million over what they would have paid if…
April 20, 2016
Maine 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 2016
April 20, 2016
Update: Official PECO Prices To Compare To Fall June 1
PECO has posted official electric Prices to Compare for the period beginning June 1, 2016
April 19, 2016
Settlement Would Require Study of Introduction Of New Bypassable Retail Adder At Utility
A settlement concerning the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities' default service programs for the four-year period beginning June 1, 2017 would require the convening of a stakeholder collaborative to examine the potential introduction of a new bypassable retail adder at the EDCs.
April 18, 2016
FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Prices To Compare To Decrease Up To 20%
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have filed new tariffed PTC Default rates with the PUC for the three-month period starting June 1, 2016.
April 18, 2016
PECO Electric Supply Rates To Decrease 13% (Hourly Pricing For Medium C&Is Begins June 1)
PECO's Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) for small business customers will decrease about 13% on June 1, while the residential GSA will decrease nearly 8%.
April 15, 2016
Ohio Adopts Pricing From FirstEnergy EDCs' Default Service Auction
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) accepted the results of FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' wholesale auction that will ultimately determine its standard service offer through May 31, 2019.