June 28, 2023
Update: PSC Will "Examine" Utility Consolidated Billing Charges, POR Amounts As SCB Implemented
The Maryland PSC issued an errata to its June 27 order concerning the cost recovery for supplier consolidated billing implementation
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June 20, 2023
Retail Suppliers Say Utility's UCB Per Bill Fees Not Justified, Suggest Allocating UCB Fees To Offset SCB Costs
IGS, WGL Energy Services, Inc., NRG Energy, Inc., and Vistra Corp. (the supplier coalition) presented joint testimony in the current electric and gas rate cases of Baltimore Gas & Electric alleging that BGE has not proven that the per-bill fees that BGE imposes upon retail electricity and natural…
June 19, 2023
Utilities Propose New Creditworthiness Test, Security, & Collateral Requirements For Retail Suppliers
Several New Hampshire utilities, including Public Service Company of New Hampshire (Eversource) and Unitil, have proposed new requirements for a creditworthiness test, security, and potential collateral requirements for retail electric suppliers and community power aggregators (CPA), the Community…
June 9, 2023
Update: Consumer Advocates Propose Rule Language For Ending Purchase of Receivables For Retail Suppliers
The Maryland Energy Advocates Coalition (Advocates) has now filed specific rule language as part of its petition at the Maryland PSC requesting that the PSC initiate a rulemaking to eliminate the purchase of receivables program at the electric and gas utilities in the state
June 2, 2023
Consumer Advocates Petition PSC To End Purchase of Receivables, Seek Rulemaking
The Maryland Energy Advocates Coalition (Advocates) filed a petition at the Maryland PSC requesting that the PSC initiate a rulemaking to eliminate the purchase of receivables program at the electric and gas utilities in the state
April 26, 2023
New York ESCO Asks PSC To Include Utility Price To Compare On ESCO Customer Utility Consolidated Bills
Electree LLC, a start-up ESCO (see background here) , has asked the New York PSC to include the utility's price to compare on the bills of ESCO customers billed under utility consolidated billing at ConEd.
April 19, 2023
Pa. PUC ALJs Say Utility Allowed To, "Afford Itself A Preference Or Advantage In The Provision Of Billing Services"
Two Pennsylvania PUCs ALJs have issued a recommended decision which would approve, as modified by a previously reported non-unanimous stipulation, Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania's proposal to offer customers a voluntary carbon offset product on a pilot basis
March 23, 2023
PUC Staff, Choice Utility Reach Settlement To Allow Utility To Offer Carbon Offset Product; Retail Suppliers Oppose As "Plain Discrimination", Citing Billing
A non-unanimous settlement among the Pennsylvania PUC's Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement (I&E), the Office of Small Business Advocate (OSBA), and Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. would allow Columbia to offer to its customers a voluntary carbon offset product on a pilot basis
March 20, 2023
Working Group Seeks One-Year Delay In Supplier Consolidated Billing
Working Group Seeks PSC Guidance On Cost Recovery
The Supplier Consolidated Billing (SCB) Work Group (WG) in Maryland has filed a report stating that, "an extension of the implementation schedule for SCB implementation in 2024 for all utilities is likely required."
March 15, 2023
Utility Files New POR Discount Rates, Commercial Spikes To Over 2.5%; Residential To 2%
National Grid in Massachusetts has filed an update to the standard complete billing percentages (SCBPs), or purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, proposed to be effective May 1, 2023
March 3, 2023
Retail Supplier Group Says Regulator Cannot Rely On "Skewed", "Misleading," "Irrelevant" Data Used In Staff Report Proposing Limits On Supplier Pricing, UCB
Suppliers Highlight Current, Historic Realized Savings Under Electric Choice
In exceptions to a draft Investigative Report ('IR') from the Connecticut PURA's Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement ('EOE'), which was based on a consultant’s report ('CR'), the Retail Energy Advancement League (REAL) said that PURA may not rely on the IR and CR's reports data that is…
February 10, 2023
Regulator's Staff Concludes That Retail Supplier Residential Prices Are "Overpriced And Harmful"; Proposes Conditions On Choice
Proposals Include Supplier Rate Caps, Restricted Access To Utility Consolidated Billing
Products from retail electric suppliers to residential customers in Connecticut are, "both overpriced and harmful to residential customers," the Office of Education, Outreach, and Enforcement (EOE) of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (Authority) said in an EOE report
January 11, 2023
Utilities Propose New Purchase Of Receivables Programs, Discount Rates
The New Hampshire investor-owned electric utilities have proposed new purchase of receivables programs, in response to recent state law and PUC rulemaking
January 11, 2023
PUC To Publicly Post Aggregated Revenue, Usage Data From Retail Suppliers
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio said that it will make public aggregated data from competitive retail electric suppliers.
December 14, 2022
PUC Issues Order In Rulemaking In Which Consumers' Counsel Had Sought To Require Switch Block, Shadow Billing
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has issued a final order in a statutorily required review of the natural gas utility rules under Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4901:1-13, relating to utility billing, including utility consolidated billing, utility-supplier coordination, and related retail market…
November 2, 2022
Proposed PUC Rule Changes Would Alter Rescission Period Language, Ostensibly Expand To More Customers
Rules Also Address Utility Consolidated Billing, Supplier Coordination
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has opened a periodic statutorily required review of the electric utility minimum customer service rules under Chapter 4901:1-10, Ohio Adm.Code, and Staff has proposed several changes to the current rules
October 5, 2022
Regulator Opens Review Of Rules Applicable To Utility Consolidated Billing, Price To Compare Message, Partial Payment Priority, Other Supplier Coordination Issues
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has opened a statutorily required periodic review of the natural gas utility rules under Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4901:1-13, relating to utility billing, including utility consolidated billing, utility-supplier coordination, and related retail market issues…
September 9, 2022
Regulator's Staff Directs Utilities To Provide Cost Estimates For EDC System Changes That Would Allow A Cap To Be Placed On Retail Supplier Rates
In a Connecticut PURA proceeding implementing PURA's authority to condition access to utility systems on all retail electric supplier offers being just and reasonable, including, but not limited to, proof that the electric supplier's products are not overpriced or harmful to residential customers…
September 8, 2022
Utility Agrees To Provide Information Concerning Suppliers' Sought Implementation Of Bill Ready Billing In Next Rate Case
A partial settlement in a current rate case for Columbia Gas in Pennsylvania includes several terms related to the retail market
May 18, 2022
PUC Rules On Utilities' Requested Waivers Concerning Billing Non-Commodity Services On Utility Bills, Retail Supplier Bill Access
A Public Utilities Commission has issued orders concerning requests filed by several utilities which had…
April 14, 2022
Pa. PUC Denies Retail Suppliers' Rehearing Request On Order Allowing Electric Utilities To Use On-Bill Billing For Their "Own" Non-Utility Services
The Pennsylvania PUC denied reconsideration of its recent order that had found that the use of "on-bill billing" by the FirstEnergy Pennsylvania electric utilities (the EDCs) for their own non-commodity goods and services, while not offering the same on-bill billing service for the non-commodity goods and services offered by retail suppliers, is not unreasonably discriminatory in violation of the Public Utility Code, 66 Pa. C.S. §§ 101, et seq.
February 7, 2022
PSC Dismisses Complaint Filed Against Retail Supplier, Affiliated Utility Over Alleged "Consolidated" Bill & Bill Messages
The Maryland PSC dismissed a complaint filed by the Office of People’s Counsel (OPC) against Washington Gas Light Company ('Washington Gas') and WGL Energy Services, Inc. ('WGL Energy') over, what has been shown to be, a utility message appearing on all utility consolidated bills, though OPC's…
December 13, 2021
PUC Staff Recommend Granting Temporary Waiver To Allow Utility To Continue To Bill Non-commodity Services On Utility Bill, Though Under Shorter Waiver Period Than Utility Requested
Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio have recommended granting a waiver that would allow Duke Energy Ohio to continue billing an affiliate's non-commodity services on the utility bill, though Staff recommended a shorter waiver period than sought by Duke.
December 1, 2021
Utility To Ostensibly Allow Retail Suppliers To Bill Non-Commodity Services On Utility Bills, But Seeks 18-Month Waiver For Implementation
Waiver Request Suggests Differing Treatment Will Continue In Interim Period
AEP Ohio has filed a request with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio seeking a "limited" 18-month waiver of Ohio Adm. Code 4901:1-10-33(A), which now requires that utilities not discriminate in the billing of non-commodity and other non-jurisdictional services.
November 2, 2021
Utilities Seek Waiver To Keep Billing, Temporarily, Non-Regulated Services Of Only Certain Providers On Utility Bills, As New Non-Discrimination Rule Takes Effect
Several Ohio electric utilities (EDUs) have applied for rule waivers at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to, temporarily, continue to bill their own, or an affiliate's, non-jurisdictional services on utility bills, as a new rule takes effect, which prohibits such billing, unless the utility…