Update: This week, OMA Energy Group filed motions to intervene in the above-listed cases, in which (1) AEP Ohio and Solvay Specialty Polymers and 2) AEP Ohio and Kraton Polymers US jointly filed applications for approval of special arrangement agreements to commit the savings from two planned combined heat and power (CHP) systems to AEP Ohio for use in achieving its energy efficiency benchmarks in exchange for an incentive payment.

OMA Energy Group also filed comments on the applications, requesting that the Commission increase the incentive payment to be tendered by AEP Ohio (and other electric distribution utilities in Ohio) to hosts of the CHP systems from $0.005/kWh saved to $0.007/kWh saved. This increase will place incentives for CHP systems in Ohio on the same level as those available in Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York, and will more significantly contribute to the robust development of CHP technologies in Ohio.

Further, OMA Energy Group requested that the Commission deny AEP Ohio’s request to exclude twenty percent of the shared savings it stands to collect as a result of these projects from the annual $20 million caps on shared savings agreed to by the parties to the stipulation in its last approved portfolio program case. Commission adoption of AEP Ohio’s request would result in its receipt of shared savings in excess of the $20 million caps in both 2015 and 2016.