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Retail Suppliers Seek Elimination of Switching Fee, Seek Further Unbundling Of Costs
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In testimony in the rate case of the FirstEnergy Ohio electric utilities, IGS Energy and the Retail Energy Supply Association sought, among other things, elimination of the $5 switching fee
The $5 switching fee is only applied to a customer switching to a retail supplier.
There is no switching fee for a customer to switch to SSO, which IGS and RESA called, "blatantly discriminatory."
RESA and IGS also said that the EDCs have not demonstrated cost rationale for the fee, while also noting that PUCO has recently eliminated the switching fee at several other utilities
IGS and RESA also sought to confirm elimination of the fees for historic customer data. Under the rate case tariff, a retail provider is assessed a charge of $5.00 for up to twelve months of monthly kW and/or kWh data per account per request, $37.50 for one month of hourly load data per account per request, and $150 for twelve months of hourly load data per account per request.
RESA and IGS noted that, in the time since the rate case was filed, PUCO adopted a settlement under which the FirstEnergy EDCs are to eliminate these customer data access fees for retail suppliers. IGS and RESA said that the tariff should be updated to eliminate the customer usage data fees, consistent with this prior settlement
IGS and RESA also sought the unbundling of the cost of the PUCO and OCC assessments from base rates
Currently, retail suppliers must pay a PUCO and OCC assessment. The FirstEnergy Ohio utilities pay a PUCO and OCC assessment related to both their supply revenue and delivery revenue. However, the entirety of the PUCO and OCC assessments paid by the FirstEnergy utilities is recovered through delivery rates
PUCO/OCC assessment costs related to default service should be paid in bypassable SSO rates, the retail suppliers said
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March 24, 2025
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Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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