April 16, 2025
PECO Residential Generation Rate Increasing 13%, Small C&I Rate Rising 20%
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the six-month period beginning June 1, 2025
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April 15, 2025
Consultant's Report Directed By PSC Recommends Benchmarking SOS Adder To Ensure Adder Reflects Retail Supplier Marketing Costs, Does Not Undercut Competition
A consultant retained by Pepco, at the direction of the District of Columbia PSC, to conduct an audit of the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge, has recommended that the current bypassable Adder included in the bypassable SOS Admin. Charge at Pepco should be, "tied more closely to competitive third-party…
April 1, 2025
Pa. Utility Files To Change Language Regarding Assignment Of Gas Supplies To Retail Suppliers, Following Capacity Assignment, From "Shall" To "May"
In an annual 1307(f) application, Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC (the "Company") has filed at the Pennsylvania PUC to change tariff language concerning the utility's obligation to provide retail suppliers, who are assigned certain capacity, with the option to purchase gas supplies associated with…
March 31, 2025
Pennsylvania Utility Sees Residential Default Service Rate Increase Another 14%, After Recent 40% Interim Hike
Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC has filed in Pennsylvania its customary quarterly adjustment to the natural gas commodity supply cost, which also results in a higher merchant function charge, given the operation of how the MFC is calculated
March 21, 2025
Retail Supplier Parent Forms Home Solutions Arm
Energywell recently formed a new entity, Think Home Solutions, LLC, which is seeking an electric broker and/or aggregator license in Ohio
March 11, 2025
Consumers' Counsel Recommends Change In How Choice Utility Procures RECs To Avoid Higher Costs, Floats Invoking Force Majeure
The Ohio Consumers' Counsel has recommended that the PUC of Ohio adopt changes in REC procurement at the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities, as recommended by an auditor, as a means of reducing renewable energy compliance costs, with OCC floating the potential to invoke a force majeure to avoid "excessive"…
February 28, 2025
Pennsylvania Utility Files Interim 40% Increase In Default Service Rate
Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC has filed in Pennsylvania an interim increase in its natural gas commodity supply cost, which also results in a higher merchant function charge, given the operation of how the MFC is calculated
February 28, 2025
Regulator Approves Deferral Of Default Service Costs
The Massachusetts DPU has approved filings by Liberty Utilities to defer reconciliations of its gas supply cost that would otherwise be incorporated into Liberty's bypassable gas adjustment factor (GAF) at this time
February 25, 2025
Utility Proposes To Defer Some Default Service Commodity Costs
In response to a Massachusetts DPU directive to cut residential bills by 5% during the peak winter season (story here) , Liberty Utilities in Massachusetts has proposed deferring reconciliations of its residential gas supply cost that would otherwise be incorporated into its bypassable GAF at this…
February 20, 2025
Pa. PUC Denies Bid To Increase Cutoff Separating Fixed Priced Default Service Versus Hourly SOS Rates To 3 MW, From Current 100 kW Cutoff
The Pennsylvania PUC denied a bid from Penn Renewables, LLC to increase the cutoff for fixed-price default service rates at UGI Utilities - Electric Division to 3 MW, from the current 100 kW threshold, and also rejected Penn Renewables' argument that hourly priced default service violates…
February 4, 2025
Another Default Service Adder Doubling For 2025-26
A February 4 auction to determine the Retail Price Adjustment (RPA) for the Standard Choice Offer at Columbia Gas of Ohio resulted in an RPA of $3.25 per Mcf, for the period April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026
January 21, 2025
Maryland Utility's Residential SOS Rate Increasing 5% For Summer 2025
In Maryland, Potomac Edison's residential Electric Supply Charge for the summer 2025 period is increasing 5%, as Potomac Edison filed new residential Electric Supply Charges for the periods beginning June 1, 2025, and also October 1, 2025
January 16, 2025
PECO Small C&I Price to Compare Falling 13%
PECO has filed with the Pennsylvania PUC new electric Generation Supply Adjustment (GSA) charges for the period beginning March 1, 2025
January 9, 2025
Pa. PUC Commissioner: Referral Program Customers Rolling Over To Retail Supplier Contract At End Of SOP "Never" Placed On Lower Monthly Contracts
In a statement that would have granted rehearing of the Pennsylvania PUC's November 2024 decision denying changes to PECO's electricity Standard Offer Customer Referral Program (SOP), Pennsylvania PUC Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow said…
January 1, 2025
Report: Nearly 40% Of Customers Remaining With Retail Supplier After End Of Standard Offer Program Paid 50-100% More Than Applicable Price To Compare
Nearly 40% of residential customers in the standard offer customer referral program (SOP) at…
December 23, 2024
Duquesne Light Default Supply Rate Falling 18%
Duquesne Light filed with the Pennsylvania PUC the default service supply rate for…
December 19, 2024
Four New York Utilities Under-collected Default Service Costs By $42 Million In Past Year
Four New York utilities under-collected…
December 19, 2024
BGE Files Summer 2025 Mass Market SOS Rates
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed the electricity SOS energy rate for mass market customers for the period June 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025
December 17, 2024
National Grid Mass Market Default Service Rates Falling About 10%
Fixed Offers From 11 Retail Suppliers Still Below New, Lower National Grid SOS Rate
National Grid's residential electric default service rate is set to fall by…
December 13, 2024
PSNH Mass Market Default Service Rate To Fall 14%
The small customer energy service (default service) electric rate at…
December 9, 2024
Utility's Mass Market Default Service Rates Falling 20%
A utility has filed with…
December 4, 2024
PUC Approves Settlement For Utility To Use Wholesale Auction To Procure Default Service; Change From Current Managed Portfolio
A utility will soon begin pricing default service using a wholesale auction
December 3, 2024
ALJs Would Deny Bid To Increase Cutoff Separating Fixed Priced Default Service Versus Hourly SOS Rates To 3 MW, From Current 100 kW Cutoff
ALJs Deny Argument That Hourly Default Service Rates Violate PUC Regulations
Two ALJs would deny a bid from…
December 2, 2024
Pa. PUC Warns Customers Against "Copycat" Energy Shopping Websites, Which Do Not Provide "Unbiased" Info
PUC Encourages Customers To Use PUC Websites As "Benchmark" Against Retail Suppliers' Marketing
The Pennsylvania PUC on Cyber Monday warned customers about "copycat" energy shopping websites that mimic the look and presentation of the PUC's "unbiased" PAPowerSwitch.com
November 22, 2024
Consumer Advocate Asks Pa. PUC To "Clarify" That Recent PUC Finding, That Retail Supplier Costs Above Default Service Are Not Proof Of Customer Harm, Is Not Broadly Precedential
The Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate requested that the PUC "clarify" the PUC's findings with respect to EGS costs which exceed default service costs