The Ohio Public Utilities Commission will consider Duke Energy Ohio Inc.’s application for adjustments of retail rates and charges applicable to its electric service. The company seeks an annual revenue increase of nearly $54.7 million, or 10 percent. The commission’s staff reviewed the application and company records and recommended an increase of $1.8 million to $15.2 million, or 0.33 to 2.72 percent. Additional hearings will be held on July 20 and 26.

The New York Public Service Commission will hold the Energy Affordability Policy, or EAP, working group meeting. The group will focus on developing arrears management programs for non-low-income customers with COVID-19-related arrears. In August 2021, the commission adopted improvements to EAP, in order to achieve the commission’s six percent energy burden goal for low-income customers. The working group will meet every other Tuesday, now focusing on non-low-income customers.

The California Energy Commission will hold a staff workshop to provide stakeholders with information about cost-effectiveness practices to support suggested alterations to the 2025 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. The commission plans to gather essential information to develop the documents required to formalize rulemaking actions for the 2025 Energy Code. Commission staff and contractors will discuss the accounting processes for the 2025 Energy Code, focusing on the inputs for determining life cycle costing factors. To improve energy efficiency in buildings, the Energy Code is revised every three years. The 2025 code will take effect on Jan. 1, 2026.

The California Independent System Operator Corp. will discuss a straw proposal for the Extended Day-Ahead Market initiative, or EDAM, a voluntary electricity market with the potential to deliver significant economic, environmental, and reliability benefits for participants across the West. The proposal seeks to extend the regional market into the day-ahead time frame, where the majority of energy transactions occur, in order to facilitate energy providers collaboration to share in the diversity of resources and system needs for enhanced reliability.

The California Energy Commission is due to receive comments on developing a framework to incorporate equity and environmental justice into its efforts and relevant tools to help implement the framework. The commission also seeks input to revisit the Energy Equity Indicators that was designed to track progress and help identify communities where investments and resources should be focused. The tool, developed in 2018, aims to improve access to clean energy technologies for low-income customers and disadvantaged communities, increase clean energy investment in those communities, and improve community resilience to grid outages and extreme events. 22-IEPR-04

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission will hold a meeting to discuss the contents and evaluation of gas distribution utilities’ clean heat plans. Legislation enacted in 2021 directed the commission to adopt rules imposing requirements for utilities to reduce carbon emissions resulting from distributing gas to customers. Gas distribution companies are required to submit clean heat plans beginning in 2023 demonstrating how the utility will reduce emissions by four percent in 2025, and 22 percent by 2030, based on a 2015 baseline. The discussion will incorporate community-specific energy concerns. This is the first of six public meetings to be held in disproportionately impacted communities. Additional meetings will be held in July and August. 21R-0449G