Update: DP&L responded to the arguments of OMA Energy Group and others that its attempt to recover $43.2 million through the Service Stability Extension Rider (SSR-E) violates a past PUCO order. DP&L maintains that without the SSR-E, it will be unable to provide stable, safe, and reliable electric service. However, as shown by OMA Energy Group, DP&L has failed to meet several PUCO-prescribed conditions necessary to implement the SSR-E. Specifically, DP&L has failed to file a timely distribution rate case; failed to modernize its billing system; failed to file a grid modernization plan; and made excessive dividend payments to its parent company. With briefing complete, parties await the PUCO’s decision.
May 20, 2016, Volume 5, Issue 71
05/20/2016