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Update On Number Of Customers Dropped To Default Service, Switching Fee Waived For Customers Re-entering Retail Market
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Several Ohio electric utilities have disclosed the number of customers that were being served by Current Energy and Renewables, Inc. at the time that a stated Chief Transition Officer for the retail supplier represented to the PUC of Ohio that Current was in default and had suggested that Current's customers be returned to default service
AEP Ohio informed PUCO that 80 customers had been being served by Current prior to the default
Duke Energy Ohio informed PUCO that 155 customers had been being served by Current prior to the default (a filing by a PUCO ALJ lists this number as 135)
An ALJ on May 8 directed that, to the extent that AEP Ohio and Duke had not yet begun the return of Current customers to default service, such EDCs should begin returning Current customers back to the SSO, "unless the customer chooses an alternative supplier in the interim."
The ALJ further directed that AEP Ohio and Duke shall not apply a switching fee, as could normally be applicable under the EDCs' tariffs depending on utility and circumstance, to any Current customers dropped to default service who choose an alternative retail supplier in the next 60 days.
"[A] customer being served by Current may choose to switch to a new alternative supplier at any time within that 60-day period without restriction or additional fees associated with that choice," the ALJ said
Subsequent to the ALJ's May 8 order, the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs confirmed that Current had been serving customers in its service areas, and that such customers would be returned to default service. In its filing with PUCO concerning the matter, the FirstEnergy Ohio EDCs did not state the amount of customers affected
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May 10, 2024
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