April 6, 2018
Oncor has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to institute its first Distribution Cost Recovery Factor (DCRF), a charge applicable to retail electric providers taking delivery service
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April 5, 2018
Proposed Rate 7% Lower Than Previously Approved September 2018 Rate
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC (CEHE) filed a petition with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to update the Distribution Cost Recovery Factors (Rider DCRF), effective September 1, 2018.
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April 4, 2018
AEP Texas has filed a petition with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to update the Distribution Cost Recovery Factors (Rider DCRF) for its Central and North divisions, effective September 1, 2018.
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March 23, 2018
Public Service Electric and Gas Company announced that it is extending a credit to basic gas supply service customers to April
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March 1, 2018
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio denied rehearing requests from AEP Ohio and the Ohio Consumers Counsel concerning PUCO's September 27, 2017 order which had set certain parameters for a purchase of receivables (POR) program at AEP Ohio
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February 19, 2018
AEP Texas has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to provide retail electric providers with a contemplated credit for various merger savings and credits from the previously reported merger of AEP Texas's central and northern divisions into a single operating company.
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February 14, 2018
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC ("CenterPoint Energy") said in a Texas PUC filing that discussions with stakeholders regarding recent federal tax law changes and the potential for a directive for the TDU to file, within 120 days, a base rate proceeding have resulted in an alternative…
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January 25, 2018
Order May Have Broader Impacts On Generation Rates, Could Cause Default Service To Lag Market Court Also Addresses Ability Of Companies To Receive Trade Secret Status For Info Filed With PUCO
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio acted unlawfully when it ordered the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities to refund some $43 million collected under bypassable Rider AER (renewable energy compliance) because such refunds violated statutory prohibitions against…
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December 18, 2017
Residential, Type I SOS Rates To Fall Current SOS Rates Also Increasing Due To New SOS Admin. Charge
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed new SOS rates for the period June 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018, and also filed revisions to its current SOS rates to reflect a change in the bypassable SOS administrative charge, effective February 1, 2018
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December 18, 2017
Text of a newly filed bill (S3560) in New Jersey to provide certain subsidies to nuclear generation would place the obligation to procure nuclear diversity certificates (NDCs -- the mechanism for the subsidy) on, "electric public utilities," for their distribution customers, and would not impose an…
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December 13, 2017
As part of a newly filed default service plan, the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania utilities have proposed maintaining a clawback charge as part of the utilities' purchase of receivables program
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December 13, 2017
As part of a newly filed default service plan, for the period beginning June 1, 2019, the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania EDCs have proposed implementing a new bypassable adder to residential default service rates, to incent shopping for a competitive supplier
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November 29, 2017
Several parties, including Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) and New Hampshire PUC Staff, have entered into a settlement agreement concerning the structure of PSNH default service to be implemented once the divestiture of PSNH's generation is complete
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November 20, 2017
Nstar (Eversource Energy) filed basic service electric rates with the Massachusetts DPU for the period beginning January 1, 2018
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October 23, 2017
PUCO, in an order on Dayton Power and Light's electric security plan, rejected the provision of an amended, non-unanimous stipulation that would have seen costs related to the sale of OVEC costs into the PJM market assigned on a bypassable basis, with PUCO instead ordering that OVEC costs/credits…
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October 17, 2017
PECO has posted new Price to Compare information, for the period beginning December 1, 2017, as a result of new generation rates (generation supply adjustment or GSA).
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October 11, 2017
REPs Required To Pass-Through TDU Savings To Ex-Sharyland Customers
The Public Utility Commission of Texas today adopted final orders which approve an asset swap among Oncor and Sharyland Utilities that will see the Sharyland Utilities distribution assets (and retail customers) become part of Oncor, and under which a system-wide tariff will apply at Oncor, including…
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October 5, 2017
Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) has filed a forecast for a decrease in its energy service rate (default service), effective January 1
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September 29, 2017
During a discussion concerning a stipulation and proposed order in an Oncor rate case, which is linked to a global stipulation for Oncor to acquire the Sharyland Utilities distribution service areas, Commissioners of the Public Utility Commission of Texas agreed to include a provision which will…
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September 27, 2017
The New Hampshire PUC recently issued an order rejecting Public Service Company of New Hampshire's (Eversource) proposal to recover the net costs of generation prior to divestiture through the nonbypassable stranded cost recovery charge
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September 27, 2017
Staff Says Utility Should Audit Retail Suppliers' Compliance With POR Program Rules (Review For Errors, Compliance With Commodity-Only Receivables)
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, in a report concerning recommendations in a Duke Energy Ohio electric distribution rate case, said that Duke should institute a discount for its purchase of accounts receivables (POR, or PAR as used by Staff) program, citing credit and business risk…
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September 19, 2017
In response to a request from the Texas PUC's Director of Docket Management, Oncor has clarified two issues related to language, proposed to be part of an order approving Oncor's acquisition of Sharyland Utilities, that is intended to ensure that Oncor's rates are passed through to customers served…
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September 18, 2017
The Virginia SCC has denied the application of Appalachian Power Company to institute a voluntary renewable energy rider, designated Rider REO
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September 15, 2017
The Texas PUC's Director of Docket Management has requested that parties clarify two issues related to language, proposed to be part of an order approving Oncor's acquisition of Sharyland Utilities, that is intended to ensure that Oncor's rates are passed through to customers served by Sharyland…
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August 28, 2017
As part of a settlement among numerous parties in the utility's electric security plan case, AEP Ohio has dropped an earlier proposal to use its entitlements in the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC) generation to serve Standard Service Offer (SSO) customers (Case 16-1852-EL-SSO)
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