June 3, 2016, Volume 5, Issue 80

06/03/2016

Update: The Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) and the Northwest Ohio Aggregation Coalition (NOAC) filed an application for rehearing in response to the PUCO’s order approving tariffs filed by FirstEnergy that implement its fourth electric security plan. OCC and NOAC claim that the PUCO erred in approving FirstEnergy’s tariff applicable to Rider RRS because the tariff does not correspond to the credits and charges that the PUCO approved in its March 31, 2016 order adopting and modifying the settlement on FirstEnergy’s fourth electric security plan. The Rider RRS cost-recovery mechanism approved by the PUCO’s March 31, 2016 order was predicated on an affiliate PPA between FirstEnergy and its unregulated generating affiliate, FirstEnergy Solutions. However, FirstEnergy has abandoned that proposal in light of FERC’s order and is now attempting to secure PUCO approval of a new Rider RRS proposal that does not include an affiliate PPA. Because the PUCO has not approved the new Rider RRS proposal, OCC and NOAC argue that the PUCO erred in approving the tariff filing associated with that proposal. OMAEG intends to file an application for rehearing that also challenges the PUCO’s order approving FirstEnergy’s tariff applicable to the new Rider RRS proposal.

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