Automakers Could Glean $500K Power Credit Under AEP Ohio Proposal
Central Ohio's electric utility wants to support automakers with a new credit on their bills, according to a November 29 report in Columbus Business First.
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AEP Ohio Awards CenturyLink
AEP Ohio presented telecommunications provider CenturyLink with a $133,547 incentive check late last month. The award was made by the company’s Ohio Data Center Program. It provides incentives based upon participants’ annual energy savings. The release says that last year CenturyLink upgraded its datacenter’s mechanical system, which enabled the replacement of ... Read more »
Ohio High Court Upholds AEP Capacity Charges to Retailers, Deferred Collection
The Ohio Supreme Court released opinions on April 21 (Slip Opinion Nos. 2016-Ohio-1607 and 2016-Ohio-1608) addressing two separate orders of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) that, together, would enable AEP Ohio to collect cost-based capacity charges for the energy it sells to retail electric service providers. The court sided ... Read more »
AEP Ohio Agrees to Retailer TOU Program Concurrent with Smart Meter Rollout
AEP Ohio has entered into a Joint Stipulation and Recommendation Agreement under which the utility would complete phase two of its gridSMART deployment program and would allow the billing of Time of Use (TOU) rates by retail suppliers in its service territory. The proposal awaits the final approval of the ... Read more »
PUCO Gives Modified Go-Ahead to AEP, FirstEnergy Profit Guarantee Proposals
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) gave a limited go-ahead on March 31 to two controversial rate requests – one, from American Electric Power Ohio (AEP), intended to guarantee its income from six area coal plants (Docket No. 14-1693-EL-RDR); the other from FirstEnergy, designed to mitigate the financial risks ... Read more »
AEP Ohio Settlement Castigated As Another ‘Utility Bailout’
Another so-called “utility bailout” case has been resolved – but not to the satisfaction of ratepayers, retail energy suppliers, or environmentalists – among them, the nationwide Retail Energy Supply Association, which commented, “Once again the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) staff has agreed to a proposed settlement that protects ... Read more »
Circleville City Schools Get Big Rebate from AEP Ohio
Circleville City, OH, schools have received a rebate of $135,962.74 from AEP Ohio for its energy efficiency efforts, according the Circleville Herald. The rebate was determined by the amount of energy savings – 910,636 kWh – the district achieved. That, according to the story, is the equivalent of removing 132 ... Read more »
PUCO Staff Opposes AEP Proposal to Assure Income from Aging Plants
On October 9, staff at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) rebuffed American Electric Power Ohio’s proposal (Case No. 14-1693-EL-RDR) to guarantee the income from its ownership interests in four AEP Generation Resources (AEPGR) coal plants and its stake in two Ohio Valley Electric coal plants for the full ... Read more »
Ambit Energy Expands to Ohio
Dallas-based Ambit Energy, which claims to be “the world’s largest direct seller of energy” and a leading U.S. retail energy provider, announced on September 8 that the company expects to expand into Ohio by the fourth quarter of this year. Ambit currently provides electricity and natural gas services in deregulated ... Read more »
Retroficiency Helps 3 New Utilities Reach out to Commercial Customers
Retroficiency’s advanced meter analytics has recently been implemented across three new utility commercial energy efficiency programs: AEP Ohio, Puget Sound Energy and The United Illuminating Company, which collectively serve more than 300,000 commercial customers consuming nearly 26 terawatt-hours of energy annually. Retroficiency’s Virtual Energy Assessment is enabling energy savings across ... Read more »
Ohio Regulators Continue to Defend Deregulated Markets
Retail Energy Buyer has reported on the proceedings in Ohio where utilities asked regulators to approve long-term contracts for aging power contracts, circumventing standard wholesale market rules. This could have impacted wholesale customers throughout the PJM market region. In February, the Public Utility Commission of Ohio (PUCO) rejected AEP Ohio’s ... Read more »
AEP Ohio Offers Incentives for Electric Motor Repairs
AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, in partnership with Advanced Energy, has launched a new energy efficiency program for electric motor rewinds. The Emotor Rewind Pilot Program promotes energy efficient rewinds/motor repair for small to large companies in the industrial/manufacturing sector and provides incentives to customers and motor ... Read more »