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April 1, 2012
On March 30, AEP Ohio submitted a modified electric security plan to govern the pricing and procurement of default service for the period starting June 1, 2012 that would freeze non-fuel base generation rates for three years, and which would limit the amount of capacity provided to retail suppliers…
April 1, 2012
On March 30, Dayton Power and Light applied at PUCO to implement a Market Rate Offer (MRO) to govern the procurement and pricing of the Standard Service Offer starting January 1, 2013 (Case 12-0426-EL-SSO).
March 30, 2012
AEP Ohio confirmed in a news release this morning that it will file a modified electric security plan with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio later today, as AEP Ohio had previously indicated.
March 29, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio ordered AEP Ohio to use unblended Fuel Adjustment Clause (FAC) rates for its former Ohio Power and Columbus Southern Power territories for the second quarter of 2012.
March 20, 2012
The New York PSC ordered Consolidated Edison to provide a refund to full service customers, funded by a surcharge on transportation customers, to make full service customers whole for prior under-deliveries by transportation customers due to an error in the lost and unaccounted for gas (LAUF)…
March 13, 2012
ChoosePAWind.com, a website which promotes Pennsylvania-based wind energy to retail customers, has asked that PECO be required to promote the website as part of its electric default service plan.
March 9, 2012
The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved Commonwealth Edison's tariffs to implement Purchase of Uncollectibles, and will allow ComEd to charge retail suppliers a fee for start-up and administrative costs.
February 27, 2012
Alberta Premier Alison Redford has introduced a plan to help address, "both the volatility and costs associated with electricity," and to improve access to fixed-rate contracts.
February 23, 2012
Penelec and New York PSC Staff have filed a joint proposal under which Penelec will move its New York customers to market-based default service rates effective June 1, 2012, with the rate increases mitigated in a competitively neutral manner (Case 11-E-0594).
February 8, 2012
A draft California PUC decision would grant Stanford University a requested waiver of the application of the direct access cost responsibility surcharge (CRS) for certain amounts of its load, but would tailor the decision narrowly to the instant circumstances and decline to set a blanket policy for…
February 1, 2012
Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio, Inc., Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the Ohio Marketers Group, DTE Energy Trading, Inc., and the Ohio Consumers' Counsel have filed a stipulation regarding changes to the retail market under Vectren Energy Delivery's Standard Choice Offer (SCO)…
January 27, 2012
The Michigan PSC has approved a reservation charge at Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation which will allocate to choice customers certain costs related to the Supplier of Last Resort function (U-16481).
January 20, 2012
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed updated amounts for bypassable electric Rider 8, which reconciles supply costs.
January 12, 2012
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has denied Ohio Power's request (10/4/10) for a nonbypassable rider to recover the closure costs of Unit 5 of the Philip Sporn Generating Station (10-1454-EL-RDR).
January 12, 2012
The Pennsylvania PUC Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement does not oppose the implementation of a reconciliation rider as a means of recovering proper transmission service and generation supply service charges, but said that a proposed rider from PPL Electric Utilities would recover "improper"…
December 26, 2011
Duke Energy Ohio has filed tariffs establishing retail generation rates for the period beginning January 1, 2012.
December 20, 2011
Public Service Company of New Hampshire has asked the PUC to maintain the currently applicable default service rate beyond January 1, 2012, until such time as the PUC approves temporary rates to address certain PSNH scrubber costs.
December 16, 2011
Pennsylvania PUC Commissioner James Cawley has requested that Pennsylvania electric distribution companies reconcile transmission rates, which are a bypassable component of the price to compare, on an quarterly basis rather than on an annual basis.
December 12, 2011
Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating jointly submitted to PURA this morning (11-12-06) a solicitation plan for the procurement of RECs from qualifying Connecticut Class I renewable energy generation projects of varying sizes that have either low emissions (LRECs) or zero emissions…
December 12, 2011
The Massachusetts DPU rejected a proposed cost recovery mechanism from Fitchburg Gas & Electric (Unitil) regarding RECs to be procured under a long-term REC contract, finding that, "because even a small reduction in basic service prices could result ... the Company's proposed cost recovery mechanism…
December 5, 2011
Consumers Energy has announced the cancellation of a proposed clean coal plant project near Bay City and the anticipated suspension of operation of seven smaller coal-fired units in 2015.
November 22, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved, without modification at this time, an unopposed stipulation to establish an electric security plan governing default service at Duke Energy Ohio for the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015, though PUCO expressed concerned about the use of…
November 21, 2011
Prompted by comments from the Rate Counsel, the New Jersey BPU Staff is initiating an informal stakeholder process to review each of the electric utility's Basic Generation Service (BGS) reconciliation charges.
November 16, 2011
Public Service Company of New Hampshire has proposed an alternative cost recovery methodology for the above-market costs of PPAs it is seeking to execute with several wood-burning IPPs (DE 11-184).
November 11, 2011
The PUCT is not authorized to allow TDUs to charge REPs for lost TDU revenues as a result of the TDU's statutorily required energy efficiency programs, and the Commission appropriately declined to grant the TDUs such a Lost Revenue Adjustment Mechanism (LRAM), the Third Court of Appeals of Texas…
