February 24, 2025
Texas Bill Would Allow TDUs To Implement Interim Rates
A Texas bill (HB 3157) would allow TDUs to implement interim rates during the pendency of a rate case
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February 24, 2025
PUC's Consultant Recommends Changes To Rider BTCR
Editor's note. This story has been corrected to reflect the current nature of Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio, that the current Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio is nonbypassable for all customers (including being nonbypassable for pilot customers), and that the consultant's report does NOT recommend changes in the…
February 24, 2025
PUC's Consultant Recommends Changes To Rider BTCR
Editor's note. This story has been corrected to reflect the current nature of Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio, that the current Rider BTCR at AEP Ohio is nonbypassable for all customers (including being nonbypassable for pilot customers), and that the consultant's report does NOT recommend changes in the…
February 21, 2025
Regulator Orders Immediate Reduction In Total Customer Bills, Directs Utilities To File Proposals In Default Service & Distribution Proceeding
The Massachusetts DPU has ordered all of the state's investor-owned natural gas distribution companies to file revised reconciling factors that will result in no less than a 5% reduction in residential and residential low-income average bills for the remainder of the peak season (March and April…
February 17, 2025
Oncor Proposes Increase In DCRF Charged To Retail Providers
Oncor has filed at the Texas PUC a proposed increase to its Distribution Cost Recovery Factor, Rider DCRF, charged to retail electric providers
February 3, 2025
CenterPoint-TDU Seeks Approval For 2026-28 System Resiliency Plan, Includes Utility-Scale Microgrid Pilot, Addresses Cost Recovery
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has sought Texas PUC approval for a 2026-28 system resiliency plan
February 3, 2025
Utilities Propose Smart Thermostat Rebate Program Open To Retail Suppliers
With respect to retail market issues, the FirstEnergy Ohio utilities' newly filed electric security plan (ESP VI) maintains various provisions previously adopted or ordered by the PUC of Ohio in May 2024 under ESP V, prior to the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs withdrawing ESP V
January 29, 2025
CenterPoint-TDU Would Change How Disconnection Moratoriums Are Applied During Extreme Weather Events, Under Settlement
CenterPoint-TDU To Provide One-Time Bill Credit To Customers, Via REPs
A settlement among all of the major parties in CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's electricity rate case at the Texas PUC would require CEHE to modify how it implements disconnection moratoriums during extreme weather events, while also including a one-time customer refund, to be provisioned…
January 24, 2025
CenterPoint-TDU Seeks New Rider Charged To REPs To Recover System Restoration Costs
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC applied at the Texas PUC to implement a new rider imposed on retail electric providers to recover securitized costs of distribution system restoration related to the May 2024 Houston Derecho and May 28, 2024 strong thunderstorms
January 22, 2025
PUC Approves Delay In Transition To Wholesale Auction For Default Service
The PUC of Ohio approved what it termed a "delay" in the implementation of a wholesale Standard Service Offer (SSO) auction to procure supply for default natural gas service at Duke Energy Ohio, with the initial SSO auction ordered to be held in early 2026, for service starting April 1, 2026
January 20, 2025
State Energy Agency "Revisiting" Position On Keeping Default Service Reconciliations Bypassable
The New Hampshire Department of Energy (DOE) is "revisiting" its previously stated position regarding the appropriate mechanism to collect under-recoveries in large customer default service costs at Public Service of New Hampshire
January 13, 2025
Retail Suppliers Emphasize Need For Implementation Of Change in How Balancing Charges Are Treated, Given Pipeline Rate Hike
The Retail Energy Supply Association and Interstate Gas Supply urged the…
January 13, 2025
Revised Settlement Addressing Utility's Billing Errors Requires Credits To Offset Default Service Rider
A newly revised stipulation among certain parties…
January 3, 2025
Ohio Utility Seeks Delay In Step In Transitioning From Merchant Function
A utility has proposed a later start date 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 18, 2024
Major Choice Utility Addresses PUC Staff Recommendation To Add Discount To Long-standing Zero Discount POR Program & Staff's Musing On Ending POR
A utility has offered alternatives meant to address concerns from Staff of a PUC
December 18, 2024
PUC Approves Changes To Prior Default Service Procurement Design As A Result Of Electric Security Plan Withdrawal
A Public Utilities Commission has approved…
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
November 26, 2024
Texas ALJ Would Again Find Texas REPs Must Receive 45 Days Notice Of "Approved" New DCRF Rates
A Texas ALJ has further affirmed that Texas retail electric providers must receive…
November 25, 2024
Utility Seeks To Make Default Service Reconciliation Nonbypassable For All Customer Classes
An EDC is seeking to treat default service reconciliations for all customer classes, including mass market customers, on a nonbypassable basis
November 13, 2024
PUC Staff Make Recommendations On Changes To Utilities' Default Service Plan
Staff of a PUC have filed…
November 12, 2024
CenterPoint TDU Seeks New Rider Charged To REPs For Storm Costs
Default service electric rates for mass market customers in CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC filed at the Texas PUC an application for…
September 16, 2024
Choice Utility Agrees To Additional Transparency Regarding Offering, Billing Of Non-Utility Services
An EDC with an electric choice program has, as part of a delivery rate case settlement, agreed to changes meant to better inform customers regarding the nature of non-basic services offered by the utility, or third parties in partnership with the utility
August 28, 2024
TNMP Files Resiliency Plan, Proposes Cost Recovery
Texas-New Mexico Power Company has sought approval at the Texas PUC for a proposed system resiliency plan
June 28, 2024
PUC To Consider Recovering Default Service Reconciliations On Nonbypassable Basis
Customers shopping with a competitive retail electric supplier are at risk for paying for costs related to default service, under a ruling from the state's PUC