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June 1, 2011
The Maryland PSC will consider at the July 13 administrative meeting whether early termination fees for competitive electric supply are "commodity" charges which can properly be purchased under Purchase of Receivables.
May 31, 2011
The Michigan PSC approved without modification a settlement under which Consumers Energy will provide additional flexibility to natural gas choice suppliers to adjust their required daily deliveries of natural gas (U-16418, 5/17 ).
May 25, 2011
No costs related to Purchase of Receivables will be included in Commonwealth Edison's distribution rates, according to an order issued by the Illinois Commerce Commission in ComEd's distribution rate case (10-0467).
May 24, 2011
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has approved updated supplier tariffs at the FirstEnergy utilities, including memorializing the companies' withdrawal of any change in the switching fee.
May 24, 2011
A blended Purchase of Receivables discount rate is appropriate at Commonwealth Edison because it alleviates some of the inequities caused by the flat 50¢ administrative charge per bill issued under utility consolidated billing with POR, Dominion Retail said in rehearing testimony before the ICC…
May 17, 2011
Consumers Energy would provide additional flexibility to natural gas choice suppliers to adjust their required daily deliveries of natural gas under a settlement in its current rate case (U-16418).
May 10, 2011
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May 9, 2011
Constellation NewEnergy has submitted an expedited petition at the Pennsylvania PUC for a temporary waiver of the PUC rules regarding electric generation supplier budget billing, to the extent they require a supplier to provide budget billing information for its residential customers.
May 3, 2011
Consolidated Edison and ESCOs were not able to reach complete consensus on modifications to ConEd's rate ready billing system to permit ESCOs to use rate ready billing for dynamic and demand-based rates (09-E-0428).
April 28, 2011
The Maryland PSC has established updated Purchase of Receivables discount rates for Allegheny Power.
April 5, 2011
Integrys Energy Services has begun offering retail electric service to residential customers at Commonwealth Edison.
March 28, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has scheduled a status conference for April 13 regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program after granting petitions for rehearing filed by the Retail Energy Supply Association and Illinois Competitive Energy Association (Docket 10-0138).
March 24, 2011
A bill which would amend Illinois' opt-out municipal electric aggregation statute has advanced out of the Cities & Villages Committee.
March 22, 2011
Ohio Edison, Toledo Edison, and Cleveland Electric Illuminating have filed revised supplier tariffs with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to, among other things, withdraw their previous request to eliminate the current initial switching fee waiver, and to offer bill ready utility consolidated…
March 17, 2011
The Connecticut DPUC issued this morning a final written order concerning several supplier marketing issues in Docket 10-06-24, under which the voluntary guidelines will be limited to small volume customers, and issues related to the cost of utility consolidated billing and the use of mid-cycle…
March 14, 2011
Connecticut lawmakers have drafted language for SB 1, essentially incorporating language nearly identical to the language of SB 493 which was vetoed in the 2010 session.
March 1, 2011
Direct Energy has begun offering electric supply to residential customers at Commonwealth Edison.
February 25, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has clarified its amendatory order on Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, confirming that administrative costs will not be recovered twice, and affirming that a single discount rate shall be applied to all customer classes (Docket 10-0138).
February 21, 2011
A draft Connecticut DPUC decision would require electric distribution companies (EDCs) to list the applicable Standard Service rate on all utility bills, even utility consolidated bills with supplier charges, and would also require EDCs and suppliers to complete customer enrollments and pricing…
February 17, 2011
Consistent with an earlier default service plan settlement, Penn Power submitted a revised supplier coordination tariff at the Pennsylvania PUC to implement a non-recourse Purchase of Receivables program (P-2010-2157862).
February 16, 2011
Illinois Commerce Commission Staff have filed an emergency motion for clarification of the Commission's February 9 Amendatory Order regarding Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, asking that the current discount rate continue to apply until the ICC clarifies several conflicting…
February 11, 2011
The Illinois Commerce Commission has issued an amendatory order on Commonwealth Edison's Purchase of Receivables program, which establishes a new discount rate, but also appears to result in the double collection of administrative costs, and creates additional confusion on the uncollectibles factor…
February 4, 2011
The joint New York utilities have opposed a rehearing request filed by the Small Customer Marketer Coalition related to the New York PSC's recent order that ESCOs may only offer prepaid service when the ESCO is the billing party (98-M-1343).
January 27, 2011
Nordic Energy Services, LLC confirmed yesterday that it intends to start offering residential electric service at Commonwealth Edison and Ameren in March.
January 25, 2011
Spark Energy has started offering residential electric service at Commonwealth Edison.
