May 10, 2016
Massachusetts Default Service Rates To Decrease 25%
Western Massachusetts Electric Co. (Eversource) has filed new default service rates for the period beginning July 1, 2016
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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
NY PSC Staff Whitepaper Proposes Benchmark Price That ESCOs Would Need to Beat To Offer Fixed Price Product
Staff of the New York PSC have issued a whitepaper that would establish a formula for determining an appropriate not to exceed benchmark "reference price" for a 12-month fixed price offering, thereby allowing ESCOs, contingent on a further PSC order, to offer such a product as an additional…
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 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 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
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 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 7, 2016
Settlement Would Expand Hourly Pricing at Pennsylvania EDCs, Retain Use of Three Month Contracts For Small C&I Default Service Portfolio
A settlement in the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities' default service proceedings for the period June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2021 would lower the threshold for hourly priced default service and retain the use of three-month contracts as part of the default service procurement portfolio for small C&I…
April 7, 2016
Settlement Would Introduce Purchase of Receivables "Clawback" At Pennsylvania Utilities
A settlement in the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities' default service proceedings for the period June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2021 would introduce, on a pilot basis, a clawback mechanism to the purchase of receivables program
April 6, 2016
Unitil Default Service Rates To Decrease 35%
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, 2016.
April 6, 2016
Duquesne Light Supply Rates To Decrease 10%
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new default service supply rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016.
April 4, 2016
Delmarva Delaware SOS Rates To Fall 10%
Delmarva has filed with the Delaware PSC new SOS rates for the period beginning June 1, 2016, which are lower than the current rates
March 29, 2016
N.Y. PSC Staff Admonishes ESCOs On Pricing Benchmarks; Says Utility Price Can Always Be Used If No Alternatives Developed
During a collaborative meeting yesterday concerning the New York PSC's retail market reset order, Staff of the New York PSC admonished ESCOs for focusing on challenges presented in developing pricing benchmarks to potentially be used to allow and evaluate ESCO products in the market, warning that if…
March 21, 2016
National Grid Basic Service Rates To Fall 40%
National Grid fixed basic service rates for Massachusetts residential and commercial electric customers will fall to, or below, 8¢/kWh starting in May, under rates filed with the DPU.
March 18, 2016
Direct Energy Petitions Pa. PUC To Restart Retail Opt-In Program With Revised Parameters
Direct Energy is to petition the Pennsylvania PUC today to restart the retail opt-in electricity referral/aggregation programs, which had been previously approved by the PUC, but which the PUC suspended prior to implementation.
February 29, 2016
IGS Energy Seeks Extension of Compliance Deadline for NY Order Which Requires "Full Stop" of Retail Markets; Calls Timeline "Impossible"
New York's February 23 order requiring a "full stop" to the retail energy mass market, "requires changes that were unexpected and are impossible to implement within the 10 day time-frame specified in the Order," IGS Energy said in a request for an extension of the compliance deadline
February 24, 2016
Pennsylvania Launching Revamped PAGasSwitch.com Site; Will Include Direct Enrollment Link, Other Enhancements
The Pennsylvania PUC intends to launch by the end of March an enhanced, stand-alone version of the PAGasSwitch.com natural gas shopping site that offers more of the functionalities of the current PA Power Switch site
February 23, 2016
United Illuminating Files New Default Service Rates
United Illuminating has filed new Last Resort Service rates for the three-month period beginning April 1, 2016
February 18, 2016
Connecticut Light & Power Posts New Default Service Rates
Connecticut Light & Power has posted new Last Resort Service rates for the period beginning April 1, 2016.