When the Pennsylvania legislature approved electric competition 13 years ago, lawmakers imagined that one day most customers would shop around for the cheapest price or the best service – the way they now do with cell phone providers.
That hasn’t happened.
In two parts of Western Pennsylvania, where market rates rule, for example, less than 20 percent [...]
Only about 8 percent of PPL Electric Utilities customers have taken steps to lessen the impact of 2010 electric rate hikes, according to the most recent figures. Others should educate themselves about electric deregulation that takes place this week and consider designating an alternative provider.
The approximately 70 percent of your PPL bill that deals with [...]
At least 8 percent of PPL Electric Utilities’ customers have switched companies with deregulation — and a planned 30 percent hike in PPL electricity — only two days away.
State imposed price caps are coming off, and five new companies are competing for residential customers under the Public Utility Commission deregulation process.
It’s not too late for [...]
Pennsylvania decision-makers’ poor understanding of the electricity industry led them into a big mistake 13 years ago: Giving up the state’s authority to control electricity-generation prices.
Consumers were promised a competitive retail electricity market that would restrain prices. The warnings that such a market would not develop went unheeded, but they turned out to be correct.
We’re [...]
Facing a 30-percent rate increase on Jan. 1, nearly 117,000 PPL Electric Utilities customers have already run for the exit.
More than 8 percent of PPL Electric’s 1.4 million customers have opted to buy discounted power from alternative suppliers, said Ryan Hill, the spokesman. The total includes 100,000 residential customers.
The end of state-mandated rate caps for [...]
JOHNSTOWN — Electricity, at both the federal and state levels, will cost more as new programs are implemented.
While the Senate wrestles with final versions of cap-and-trade federal legislation and coal-fired power plants are converting to renewable sources, higher utility bills are on the way in the coming decade.
And against this national picture of price hikes [...]
The reason is overcollection of a fee.
Friday, December 18, 2009
From staff reports
HARRISBURG | Pennsylvania regulators Thursday approved a $30.16 million refund for residential customers of PPL Electric Utilities Inc., resulting from overcollection of a charge used to pay for infrastructure improvements.
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted 5-0 to approve [...]
The state’s bungled deregulation plan is about to enter an ugly final phase.
Pennsylvania decision-makers’ poor understanding of the electricity industry led them into a big mistake 13 years ago: giving up the state’s authority to control electricity-generation prices. Consumers were promised a competitive retail electricity market that would restrain prices. The warnings that such a [...]
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HARRISBURG — With the household electric bills of many Pennsylvanians expected to skyrocket by 2011, legislators last year were talking about forcing electric utilities to eat part of the cost.
That talk is over.
Beginning Jan. 1, the 1.4 million electric customers of PPL Corp. can expect an average 30 percent increase in their bills if they [...]
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