March 30, 2015
Granite State Electric Corrects Default Service Rates
Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) has filed corrections to its proposed New Hampshire electric default service rates for the six-month period beginning May 1, 2015
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March 30, 2015
Texas TDU Asks Whether Complaint Case Against Customer's Former REPs Extends to Customer's Current REP
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC has requested that a Texas ALJ rule on whether the scope of complaint brought by a customer against the TDU and Ambit Energy regarding demand charges should extend to all of the demand charges billed by the CenterPoint TDU passed-through to the customer…
March 27, 2015
Texas PUC Commissioner Muses Whether TDU Costs Charged to Retail Providers Should Rely More On Fixed, Not Volumetric, Charges
Complaints about high bills at Sharyland Utilities, LP implicate how costs are allocated and recovered in distribution rates, and raise questions regarding whether such distribution costs should be recovered on a volumetric or non-volumetric basis, Texas Public Utility Commissioner Kenneth Anderson…
March 27, 2015
Texas TDU Files Intent to Implement New Charge Applicable to Retail Electric Providers
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC has filed a notice with the Public Utility Commission of Texas that it plans to file an application for approval of Distribution Cost Recovery Factor (DCRF), a new rider which would be charged to retail electric providers
March 26, 2015
Ohio Sets Changes to Duke Energy Ohio Natural Gas Tariff, Which Will Determine Viability of Choice Program, For Hearing
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has set for hearing several Duke Energy Ohio natural gas program and tariff changes which will determine the viability of the retail choice market.
March 24, 2015
Texas REPs, PUC Staff File Stipulation Regarding Refund of Transition Charges to REPs
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and several retail electric providers have filed a non-unanimous stipulation regarding the refund of an $11 million over-recovery of CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric transition charges under Rider TC1
March 24, 2015
BGE Files To Lower POR Discount Rate, Asks PSC To Reconvene Workgroup on Negative Discounts
Baltimore Gas & Electric has filed proposed updates to the electric and natural gas purchase of receivables discount rates, to be effective June 1, 2015.
March 13, 2015
PSC Opens Investigation of Utility's Default Service, Monthly Purchased Gas Charge
The District of Columbia PSC opened an investigation into Washington Gas Light Company's default natural gas supply service provided to District of Columbia customers through the Purchase Gas Charge (PGC).
March 13, 2015
Utility Files To Set POR Discount Rates To 0% For Some Residential Customers, 5% For Others
Pepco in the District of Columbia has filed to update its purchase of receivables discount rates effective June 1, 2015, including a reduction in the Rate R residential discount from 1.3737% to 0%.
March 11, 2015
Previously Unenforced, Utility Now Applying Variable Rate Recalculation to Customers Leaving Default Service
Beginning in December, Unitil in New Hampshire began applying an existing tariff provision retroactively subjecting default customers departing for competitive supply to variable default service rates, prompting customer complaints.
March 1, 2015
Pa. Committee Chair Says PUC's Proposed Assessment Mechanism Would Make Non-Residential Suppliers Subsidize Residential Suppliers
The Pennsylvania PUC's proposal to base new assessments on retail electric and natural gas suppliers based on a supplier's gross intrastate revenues would, "likely result in suppliers who serve large industrial and commercial customers subsidizing those suppliers whose load consists primarily of…
February 27, 2015
No Surprise: Utility Picked As N.Y. Distributed System Platform Provider, PSC "Expects" Tariffs, Not Auctions, to Govern Initial Distributed Procurements
In two unsurprising actions, the New York PSC selected the electric utilities as the provider of the Distributed System Platform (DSP), which is the PSC's new regulatory paradigm to encourage distributed energy resources (DERs), and said that, while not pre-determining any final outcomes, it expects…
February 24, 2015
N.Y. Utilities File Tariff to Procure Demand Response At $500/MWh Plus Capacity Clearing Price If NYISO Programs Barred By Court
The six investor-owned New York electric distribution companies have petitioned the New York PSC to approve a utility-offered demand response program to the extent the U.S. Supreme Court rules that FERC (via the RTOs) cannot set compensation for demand response.
February 24, 2015
Met-Ed, Penelec Prices to Compare to Increase 10%
Residential Prices to Compare at Met-Ed and Penelec will increase about 10% on March 1, 2015.
February 23, 2015
Alleging "Windfall" to Retail Providers, Texas Cities Oppose CenterPoint TDU Plan to Refund Charges to REPs Without Requirement That REPs Pass-Through Credit to Customers
Alleging that a proposal from CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC would lead to a "windfall" to retail electric providers, the Gulf Coast Coalition of Cities has opposed the utility's as-filed proposal to refund $11 million to retail electric providers.
February 9, 2015
Central Hudson Joint Proposal Includes Changes to Retail Access Program
A joint proposal in Central Hudson's rate case includes several changes to operating procedures applicable to retail access natural gas service at the utility.
February 3, 2015
Pepco, Delmarva File New SOS Rates
Pepco and Delmarva have filed with the Maryland PSC new Type II SOS rates for the period March 1, 2015 to May 31, 2015.
February 2, 2015
PSEG Long Island Proposes Collaborative on LIPA Choice Program
PSEG Long Island has proposed convening a collaborative to explore electric choice issues at the Long Island Power Authority.
January 12, 2015
New York Orders Interim Adjustment to Consolidated Edison Supply Rate to Reflect Reduced Cashout Payments From ESCOs
The New York PSC has accepted a joint proposal from Consolidated Edison and ESCOs concerning adjustments to cashouts for the first three months of 2014, but directed that the resulting impact on default service customers' commodity costs shall be implemented immediately, rather than through ConEd's…
January 9, 2015
Connecticut Send Meter Aggregation Issue Back to Legislature
Connecticut has referred back to the General Assembly the question of allowing nonprofit entities to aggregate electric meters that are billable to such entity.
January 6, 2015
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Nordic Energy Services Joins Retail Energy Supply Association
December 31, 2014
CenterPoint Energy To Refund $10 Million to Retail Providers
CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to refund to retail electric providers $10 million from an over-recovery of transition charges under TC1.
December 22, 2014
Proposed Decision Finds Requiring Capacity Release at Detroit Edison Is, "Reasonable," But Would Defer Issue to Collaborative
Requiring DTE Gas (f/k/a Detroit Edison) to release capacity to retail suppliers is the, "only economically reasonable long-term solution," to provide for the equitable allocation of pipeline reservation costs, a Michigan ALJ would find in a proposed decision, but the ALJ would decline to mandate a…
December 6, 2014
Texas Staff Recommend Dismissal of Complaint That Implicated REPs' Responsibility to Communicate Changes in TDU Charges
Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Texas have recommended that a complaint filed against Ambit Energy, which implicated the responsibility of retail electric providers to notify customers of changes in TDU charges and when new charges could be collected, be dismissed.
November 26, 2014
Oncor to Lower Priority Move-In Fee
Oncor has filed at the Public Utility Commission of Texas to reduce the charge for a Priority Move-In for a Self-Contained Meter, for non-AMS meters or AMS meters without remote connect/disconnection functionality (43846).