The Maryland Public Service Commission is due to receive comments on Potomac Edison Company’s application for adjustments of distribution rates and charges applicable to electric services. The FirstEnergy subsidiary is seeking an increase in distribution revenue of $48.5 million and a return on equity of 10.6 percent, which would increase an average residential customer’s monthly bill by 9.7 percent. 9695

The Maryland Public Service Commission will conduct a rulemaking session to consider proposed regulations from a workgroup on the Montgomery County Community Choice Aggregation Pilot Program. The workgroup is tasked with submitting an annual report to the commission detailing the status of the aggregator pilot. The commission is required to establish standards and procedures to protect the rights of residential customers who receive electricity supply through the aggregator, including prohibition of discrimination on the basis of customer location. READ MORE

The New York Public Service Commission will hold a joint public forum of the Indian Point Closure Task Force and Decommissioning Oversight Board established to provide guidance and support for communities affected by the three-unit Indian Point Energy Center ceasing operations. The task force is charged with exploring ways to mitigate local tax and workforce impacts and evaluate new economic opportunities and initiatives, as well as identifying a decommissioning timeline that is in the interest of local communities. The oversight board is required to assess ways to protect the interest of affected communities including current workforce and public safety. Indian Point, which had a capacity of 1,040 megawatts, shut down its last nuclear reactor on April 30, 2021, marking the end of 59 years of continuous power generation.

The California Independent System Operator Corp. will hold a working group meeting to discuss the second track of its 2023 Interconnection Process Enhancements, or IPE, initiative aimed to enhance coordination of resource procurement and interconnection, resource planning, and transmission planning to achieve state reliability and policy needs. At a recent meeting, the grid operator reviewed a list of proposed principles for the initiative including prioritizing interconnection zones where transmission capacity exists or new transmission has been approved and limiting the amount of studies to reasonable capacity volumes that align with state resource planning. The workshop will include presentations and discuss stakeholder proposals.

The Nevada Public Utilities Commission will conduct a workshop to discuss improvements to NV Energy’s integrated resource planning process. The commission recently launched a proceeding to examine the process, modeling, and analytical improvements to the company’s planning approach. 23-05013

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will consider route alternatives to be evaluated in the environmental assessment for Dodge County Wind LLC’s application to build an up to 259-megawatt wind project in Dodge, Mower, and Steele Counties. The NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary proposes to construct the project over an area of approximately 28,348 acres with up to 79 turbines, at an estimated cost of $300 million to $400 million. Dodge County Wind has entered into a power purchase agreement with Great River Energy for the full output of the project for a 30-year term. CN-20-865

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission will hold a meeting to discuss PacifiCorp’s proposal to increase its electric revenues. PacifiCorp will also present an informational briefing on the benefits of participating in the California Independent System Operator Corp.’s Extended Day Ahead Market. The company has proposed a two-year rate plan with a return on equity of 10.3 percent. The plan proposes an increase in electric delivery revenues of about $26.8 million in the first year, effective March 1, 2024, and $27.9 million in the second year. The proposal would lead to an increase of about $12.11 and $9.34 in the first and second rate years respectively, for residential customers using 1,200 kilowatt-hours per month on average. UE-230172