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March 18, 2014
Electric utilities, retail suppliers, the New Hampshire consumer advocate, and New Hampshire PUC Staff have reached a settlement agreement regarding the payment hierarchy for utility consolidated bills, and certain other retail market enhancements.
March 12, 2014
Ethical Electric, Inc. has asked the Pennsylvania PUC to require the FirstEnergy electric distribution companies, "to eliminate the use of the duplicitous [sic] and burdensome 'customer number' and instead use only the customer's account number for EGS enrollment."
March 12, 2014
Retail suppliers should be assigned one-half of the cost of changes needed to accommodate retail electric supplier logos on utility consolidated bills, PECO said in comments filed with the Pennsylvania PUC.
February 21, 2014
A final Pennsylvania PUC decision approved an unopposed settlement to implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
February 7, 2014
The Pennsylvania PUC has issued a tentative order that would, among other things, require utility consolidated bills to include the logo of the customer's retail electric supplier.
January 30, 2014
A recommended decision would approve an unopposed settlement which would implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
January 13, 2014
A bill which would replace New Jersey's current 36-month laddered default service portfolio with short-term contracts was reported out of the New Jersey Assembly's Telecommunications and Utilities Committee last week.
December 23, 2013
AEP Ohio has sought approval to offer a purchase of receivables program, as part of its electric security plan proposal for the period 2015-2018
December 4, 2013
In comments with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Direct Energy has "encourage[d]" Dayton Power & Light to adopt several changes in its bill design.
November 26, 2013
The New Jersey BPU has provided an incentive for electric and gas utilities to keep customers in arrears on utility consolidated billing, and therefore in the POR program, instead of dropping customers to dual billing, as is standard practice.
November 13, 2013
Systrum Energy said that it has become the first retail natural gas supplier to offer residential service at Elizabethtown Gas in New Jersey billed on an Elizabethtown Gas consolidated bill.
October 16, 2013
Retail electric suppliers have offered proposals to expeditiously improve the payment hierarchy for utility consolidated billing at the New Hampshire utilities.
September 23, 2013
Pepco has filed with the District of Columbia PSC discount rates for Pepco's new purchase of receivables program, which Pepco is scheduled to implement on October 7, 2013.
September 9, 2013
Ameren has filed tariff revisions to modify its electric purchase of receivables discount rate due to an error in the prior calculation.
September 6, 2013
An unopposed settlement would implement a purchase of receivables program at Philadelphia Gas Works -- with an initial discount rate of nearly 7% for residential customers.
September 3, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has formally opened, and assigned Docket IR 13-244 to, an investigation into payment hierarchy between competitive energy suppliers and electric and natural gas distribution utilities.
September 3, 2013
Consolidated Edison should be required to modify its utility consolidated billing practices and introduce new load profiles to enable the offering of Time of Use (TOU) rates from competitive retail suppliers in the absence of interval meters for all customers, the Retail Energy Supply Association…
August 2, 2013
The Illinois Commerce Commission has denied a purchase of receivables program at Nicor Gas.
July 23, 2013
AEP Ohio has proposed a collaborative process to reach consensus on changes to its supplier coordination tariff, asking that PUCO abate its current proceeding reviewing the tariff.
July 15, 2013
A trade association has asked the Maryland PSC to terminate the ability of retail energy suppliers to use utility consolidated billing for non-commodity services.
July 15, 2013
A retail supplier has proposed that the Massachusetts DPU consider a retail opt-out auction of certain customers.
July 10, 2013
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will initiate several smaller working groups to address aspects of the short-term retail electric market workplan to be developed by Staff.
July 10, 2013
Retail suppliers have protested numerous changes sought by AEP Ohio to its supplier coordination tariff, governing the utility's interaction with competitive suppliers.
July 9, 2013
A proposed order from an Illinois ALJ would deny an application from Northern Illinois Gas Company d/b/a Nicor Gas Company to institute a purchase of receivables program.
June 14, 2013
The New Hampshire PUC has approved a request to close an investigation of purchase of receivables, without prejudice, and has also agreed to open a new proceeding regarding payment hierarchy.
