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RESA Formally Petitions N.Y. PSC To Address Rate Ready Billing Issues
August 25, 2011
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The Retail Energy Supply Association petitioned the New York PSC to institute a new proceeding to examine and consider the issues raised in the Consolidated Edison rate ready utility consolidated billing collaborative.
The formal petition comes after RESA initially requested that the Commission direct the collaborative move forward after reaching an impasse, with the goal of having the matter resolved by a final determination of the Commission. However, a Secretarial letter said that the original rate order establishing the collaborative (in Case 09-E-0428) did not contemplate the relief suggested by RESA, and instead said that a formal petition is the avenue provided to parties under the Case 09-E-0428 order to resolve issues if no agreement had been reached.
As only reported by Matters (7/19), ESCOs and ConEd have reached an impasse regarding changes to the rate ready model. While some consensus items have been identified (see 5/3), ConEd opposes some of the changes sought by ESCOs.
In order to limit the number of times its billing system would be modified, and reduce potential implementation challenges, ConEd has said that it will not implement the consensus items until a consensus is reached on all outstanding issues, or the PSC adjudicates those issues.
Consensus items whose implementation is not being pursued due to disagreements over outstanding issues include:
- Reduce from four days the minimum period for Con Edison's acceptance of ESCO retrospective submission of commodity prices.
- Provide an adjustment line on the ESCO portion of the consolidated bill
- Allow ESCOs to provide customer-specific messages on the ESCO portion of the consolidated bill
- Allow ESCOs to supply on-peak and off-peak commodity rates for customers taking service under Rate II (voluntary time-of-day (TOD) rates) of Service Classification Nos. 1, 2, and 7
- Permit ConEdison to calculate ESCO commodity rates using a dollar or percentage factor submitted by the ESCO that would be applied against current ConEdison commodity charges
- Permit ConEdison to calculate an ESCO loss factor charge Additional changes sought by ESCOs include support for various dynamic pricing options, such as peak and off-peak rates for additional Service Classifications, multiple demand rates, and real-time pricing. Additionally, ESCOs are seeking a solution that would allow them to view the customer's actual usage during the billing cycle prior to the submission of a rate. RESA said that the new proceeding should include, without limitation, modifications that may be necessary to the rate ready utility consolidated billing model to enable ESCOs to offer and bill for products which reflect Time of Use, interval, and real-time pricing, as well as to offer multiple rate components, such as demand, on peak, and off peak usage.
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