May 21, 2014
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have proposed changes to the procurement of default service under AEP Ohio's proposed electric security plan covering the period starting June 1, 2015 to address "potential rate volatility."
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May 20, 2014
Duquesne Light has posted official Prices to Compare for the six-month period starting June 1, with a 22% increase in the residential Rate RS Price to Compare confirmed
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May 19, 2014
Niagara Mohawk (National Grid) had petitioned the New York PSC for tariff changes that would provide it with discretion regarding the period over which it must reconcile electric default service costs.
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May 19, 2014
The Connecticut PURA has stated an intention to return the customers of South Jersey Energy Co. to default service, after the company's supplier license lapsed for over a year.
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May 16, 2014
United Illuminating has filed new Standard Service rates for the six-month period beginning July 1, 2014, and new Last Resort Service Rates for the three-month period beginning July 1, 2014.
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May 16, 2014
Connecticut Light & Power has filed new Standard Service rates for the six-month period beginning July 1, 2014, and new Last Resort Service Rates for the three-month period beginning July 1, 2014.
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May 15, 2014
Unitil (Northern Utilities) has petitioned the Maine PUC for a series of tariff changes in its non-residential natural gas choice program, arguing that the changes are needed to ensure appropriate planning and reliability
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May 14, 2014
Pennsylvania has approved the assignment of 23 tranches of load following contracts supplying default service at the FirstEnergy utilities.
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May 14, 2014
Nstar has filed new basic service electric rates for the period beginning July 1, 2014.
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May 13, 2014
"Hedging" has been included as a topic on the agenda for the previously reported May 15 technical conference that the New York PSC is convening on the polar vortex.
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May 9, 2014
United Illuminating will apparently self-manage part of its default service load, according to a disclosure filed with PURA.
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May 8, 2014
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the results of AEP-Ohio's second energy-only auction that will ultimately determine its retail generation service rates through May 2015.
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May 8, 2014
The Maryland PSC yesterday took under advisement the utilities' alternative proposals to comply with the PSC's directive to temporarily accelerate the switching timeline, with such alternative proposals generally only accelerating the timeline for returns to SOS, not switches to another supplier.
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May 7, 2014
A recommended decision would continue the use of 24-month contracts for a significant portion of residential default service at Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, and West Penn Power through May 31, 2017.
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May 7, 2014
FirstEnergy confirmed during an earnings call yesterday that it is considering proposing a mechanism to provide the customers of its Ohio utilities with greater generation price stability, Leila Vespoli, FirstEnergy's Executive Vice President of Markets, said during an earnings call yesterday.
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May 7, 2014
Commonwealth Edison's residential Price to Compare is set to jump nearly 40% on June 1.
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May 6, 2014
PPL petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC for approval to extend the contract terms for the final default service procurements for the residential and small commercial and industrial customer classes under its current default service plan, to be procured in October 2014, by an additional six months.
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May 5, 2014
The Michigan PSC has approved a temporary increase in Consumers Energy's gas cost recovery factor to $5.575 per Mcf, plus the potential for additional increases, subject to a cap, based on a contingency mechanism.
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May 5, 2014
Public Service of New Hampshire has forecast an increase in the default service electric rate, effective July 1.
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May 5, 2014
The Illinois Procurement Agency has posted winning average prices for the spring 2014 procurement of block default service energy at Commonwealth Edison and Ameren for various periods from June 2014 to May 2016.
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May 5, 2014
As part of its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding (click here for prior story) , the New York PSC has sought stakeholder comment on the potential for "enhanced" default service
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May 2, 2014
The New Hampshire PUC ruled that Public Service Company of New Hampshire properly charged PNE Energy Supply a $5 switching fee for customers which were defaulted to PSNH for supply due to PNE's default at ISO New England.
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May 2, 2014
Potomac Edison has filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period June 1, 2014 to August 31, 2014.
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May 2, 2014
Dayton Power & Light has filed to implement a nonbypassable rider for certain generation supply costs, under a "circuit breaker" provision for certain reconciled default service costs.
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May 1, 2014
Connecticut Light & Power has disclosed the companies supplying a portion of Standard Service for the second half of 2014.
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