April 28, 2014
Due to extended consideration of rehearing requests, the New York PSC has stayed several of the significant retail market changes contained in a February order.
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April 3, 2014
The New York PSC said that utilities had not justified their requested extension of certain deadlines for EDI, system, and other changes required by the PSC's recent retail market order.
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April 2, 2014
Business is about to pick up in the Massachusetts small volume electricity market.
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March 27, 2014
Several New York utilities have asked for a delay in several requirements imposed on the EDCs in the New York PSC's recent retail market order.
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March 27, 2014
With the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio declining to order the electric utilities to implement POR (see related story today), the Commission's final retail market order contains few substantive reforms to the market.
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March 27, 2014
Rejecting a Staff recommendation, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will not require electric utilities to file plans to implement purchase of receivables.
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March 24, 2014
Pepco has provided the District of Columbia PSC with the date by which it can include late payment revenues as an offset in the POR discount rate calculation.
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March 21, 2014
Purchase of receivables, and specifically the utility's ability to disconnect service for non-payment of supplier charges, drew the ire of Pennsylvania State Representative Dan Moul, R, during a hearing yesterday concerning recent variable rate price spikes and proposed legislation to address the…
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March 18, 2014
The New York PSC has scheduled for April 8 a collaborative on purchase of receivables, and what modifications must be made to implement the PSC's recent retail market order.
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March 14, 2014
To the extent the Georgia PSC does not make Atlanta Gas Light responsible for the collection of curtailment penalties, the Georgia PSC should authorize natural gas poolers on the Atlanta Gas Light system to place a "switch hold" on certain accounts, Infinite Energy said in comments to the PSC.
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March 12, 2014
Retail suppliers should be assigned one-half of the cost of changes needed to accommodate retail electric supplier logos on utility consolidated bills, PECO said in comments filed with the Pennsylvania PUC.
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March 10, 2014
The District of Columbia PSC has approved Pepco's purchase of receivables discount rates as filed in September, which excluded any offset resulting from late payment revenues paid by competitive supply customers.
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March 4, 2014
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed at the Maryland PSC to update its natural gas purchase of receivables discount rates, with the new rates proposed to be effective June 1, 2014.
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March 4, 2014
Potomac Edison has filed at the Maryland PSC to update its purchase of receivables discount rates, with the new rates proposed to be effective June 1, 2014.
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March 3, 2014
UIL Holdings Corporation, the parent of United Illuminating, this morning officially announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire assets and certain liabilities of Philadelphia Gas Works from the City of Philadelphia for $1.86 billion in cash
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March 3, 2014
Baltimore Gas & Electric and Pepco have filed at the Maryland PSC updated discount rates proposed to be effective June 1, 2014, which include significant increases in the residential discount.
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February 27, 2014
Connecticut Light and Power has filed an annual update to its Purchase of Receivables discount rate, which equals the non-hardship average uncollectibles factor.
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February 26, 2014
The New York PSC has added a measure of recourse to its electric and natural gas purchase of receivables programs.
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February 21, 2014
A final Pennsylvania PUC decision approved an unopposed settlement to implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
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February 12, 2014
United Illuminating has filed its 2014 Non-Hardship Uncollectable Factor, which serves as the discount applied to purchased receivables.
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February 10, 2014
Pepco has filed corrections to its SOS rates for the period June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015 versus the rates as filed in January. Pepco said that the demand rates for Large Commercial customers were revised from $0.03217/kW to $0.03218/kW. The Administrative Charge for Small Commercial customers was…
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February 3, 2014
Massachusetts electric utilities have filed purchase of receivables uncollectible discount rates resulting from consensus terms and conditions.
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February 3, 2014
The New Hampshire PUC has adopted temporarily revised charges applicable to services provided by Public Service Company of New Hampshire to retail electric suppliers, to be in effect pending an incremental cost study for such charges.
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January 30, 2014
A recommended decision would approve an unopposed settlement which would implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
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January 28, 2014
AARP New York has asked the New York PSC for a status update concerning a wide-ranging retail energy market investigation which, among other things, is considering permissible sales and marketing practices for ESCOs, as well as the potential elimination of purchase of receivables without recourse.
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