Update: On July, 22, 2015, the Commission issued its Third Entry on Rehearing ordering that the applications for rehearing filed by OMA Energy Group, the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel (OCC) and AEP be granted for further consideration of the matters asserted therein. Among the issues raised by OMA Energy Group and, thus, under Commission consideration are whether the Commission unreasonably determined that it may defer ruling on the parties’ assignments of error related to the PPA while simultaneously ruling on the other assignments of error raised by the parties; whether the Commission erred in increasing the caps associated with the distribution investment rider (DIR) by over $37.8 million from those it previously approved; whether the Commission erred in determining that the IRP program should be continued only for customers that are currently participating in the program and should not be offered to additional, similarly-situated competing businesses; and whether it was unreasonable for the Commission to dismiss requests for rehearing concerning double billing and other issues pertaining to the implementation of the Basic Transmission Cost Rider (BTCR), inasmuch as numerous customers are seeing drastic increases in transmission charges.
July 24, 2015, Volume 4, Issue 87
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