November 10, 2011
Nstar is seeking to recover the latest under-recovery of its Nstar Green optional generation product over a 24-month period, rather than the 12-month period contemplated in a prior DPU order.
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November 8, 2011
Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power, and West Penn Power, "anticipate proposing an opt-in offering for non-shopping residential customers," in their upcoming default service plan petition, which will likely cover the period June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2015 (I-2011-2237952).
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October 25, 2011
A settlement among most parties to establish Duke Energy Ohio's procurement and pricing of the Standard Service Offer (SSO) for the period January 1, 2012 through May 31, 2015 forces certain retail suppliers to subsidize their competitors, by jettisoning an innovative proposal to remove capacity…
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October 19, 2011
Non-advocate Staff of the New Hampshire PUC have opposed Public Service Company of New Hampshire's request to place energy supply-related costs in distribution rates, in order to mitigate above-market PPA costs, but Non-advocate Staff did offer some alternatives which would allow nonbypassable cost…
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October 18, 2011
The New York PSC should not require Consolidated Edison to provide a credit to full service natural gas customers to make them whole for the costs borne due to historic under-deliveries from transportation customers, which resulted from an anomaly in the lost and unaccounted for gas mechanism, ConEd…
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September 29, 2011
Should the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio accept a non-unanimous stipulation regarding AEP Ohio's electric security plan, FirstEnergy Solutions sought, at a minimum, to require AEP to provide RPM-priced capacity to governmental aggregation loads, and for such loads to be excluded from the…
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September 29, 2011
The Maryland PSC approved without modification Baltimore Gas & Electric's tariff rider (Rider 29) to recover from Schedule G and GS Type II SOS customers the SOS costs which should have been collected in 2008, but which were mitigated by the Maryland PSC in an action later determined to be unlawful…
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September 28, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities has filed to revise its Time of Use (TOU) generation rate design, with a proposed effective date of March 1, 2012. PPL also proposed including prior TOU under-collections in its sought nonbypassable rider.
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September 23, 2011
The Retail Energy Supply Association has requested that the Maryland PSC collect previously mitigated SOS costs from Type II G and GS customers at Baltimore Gas & Electric over a period of three months, rather than the 12-month period contained in a BGE tariff filing.
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September 20, 2011
The delivery discounts under the Recharge New York economic development program shall apply to all amounts delivered under the program, whether they are sourced from the New York Power Authority or ESCOs, the New York PSC confirmed in an order yesterday (11-E-0176).
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September 19, 2011
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed updated rates under Rider 8 through January 2012, which is a component of the bypassable SOS price. Rider 8 amounts can be found here .
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September 19, 2011
The New York PSC has ordered Consolidated Edison to increase the load following component in the monthly rate adjustment (MRA) for 2012 to 2014 to recover the gas costs for under-deliveries of gas for transportation customers resulting from the continuation of the current lost and unaccounted for…
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September 16, 2011
A PUCT Staff strawman for revisions to the energy efficiency rules (Subst. R. 25.181) would align the effective date for any revised energy efficiency cost recovery factor (EECRF) charged to REPs to the September 1 date for revisions to other riders charged to REPs.
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September 13, 2011
Nucor Steel Marion, Inc. has sought a determination from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that alternative energy compliance costs at Ohio Edison have exceeded the 3% cost cap, and asked PUCO to cap Ohio Edison's bypassable alternative energy rider at 3% as a result.
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September 7, 2011
A non-unanimous stipulation in AEP Ohio's electric security plan proceeding contemplates that, starting June 1, 2015, AEP Ohio would source power for Standard Service Offer load through competitive auctions (11-346-EL-SSO et. al.)
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September 2, 2011
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed a tariff rider (Rider 29) to recover from Schedule G and GS Type II customers the Standard Offer Service (SOS) costs which should have been collected in 2008, but which were mitigated by the Maryland PSC in an action later determined to be unlawful by the courts.…
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August 29, 2011
Customers eligible for the Recharge New York economic development rates should be relieved from paying various monthly distribution riders if they elect to buy their market-based portion of Recharge New York supplies from an ESCO, large customers and ESCOs said in comments to the New York PSC…
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August 29, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities has amended its proposal to implement a migration rider on customers, and is now seeking authority to also implement a fully nonbypassable Competitive Transition Rider (CTR) on all customers for all generation and transmission reconciliations accruing from January 1, 2010…
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August 26, 2011
The Michigan PSC has approved revisions to the electric choice tariff of HomeWorks Tri-County Electric Cooperative, including a revision to insert a 1,000 kW threshold for a customer to qualify for choice service.
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August 25, 2011
The New York PSC has ordered NYSEG to refund to transportation-only customers $6.03 million, representing amounts due to these customers which had been inappropriately applied to the Gas Supply Charge paid by sales service customers (10-G-0467).
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August 24, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities' proposal to extend default service reconciliation to an annual process, rather than quarterly, in combination with a new nonbypassable migration rider, "will prove to be disastrous" to the retail market, and, "provide very real incentives to have large numbers of customers…
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August 23, 2011
The Michigan PSC should authorize Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation to implement a Reservation Charge of $0.6844 per Mcf applicable to both Gas Cost Recovery (GCR) and Gas Customer Choice (GCC) customers, PSC Staff said in a post-hearing brief (U-16481).
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August 11, 2011
Baltimore Gas and Electric has proposed that the "new" Type II G/GS customers who received SOS rate mitigation in 2008 should fund any refund to other non-residential customers who paid for the mitigation, but was not explicit on whether such new Type II customers should fund the refund through…
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August 10, 2011
PPL Electric Utilities petitioned the Pennsylvania PUC to implement a default service reconciliation rider, or "migration" rider, to charge or refund to customers any default service reconciliations for their past service under default supply, regardless of the customer's current supplier.
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August 9, 2011
The Retail Electric Provider Coalition submitted comments to the PUCT encouraging the Commission to fully implement PURA Sec. 36.210(b)(1), which seeks to minimize the impact of new and revised TDU rates by directing electric utilities to "implement simultaneously all nonfuel rates to be adjusted in…
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