Press Release

PUC Finalizes Recommendations from Retail Markets Investigation to Provide More Supplier Information on Utility Bills

Published on 5/22/2014

Filed under: Electric

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today finalized recommendations that will provide consumers with more information from their electric generation suppliers (EGSs) on their utility bill.

The Commission voted 5-0 to approve changes to customers’ electric bills as part of the Commission’s Retail Markets Investigation (RMI), which was intended to improve the state’s retail electricity market.  The adopted changes provide for the inclusion of the EGS’s logo on the bill; the expansion of bill messaging space allotted to EGSs; and the inclusion of a Shopping Information Box.  The Commission’s goal is to increase customer awareness when participating in the competitive retail electric market and provide more information from EGSs in utility-consolidated bills.

As part of its Retail Markets Investigation End State Final Order, which was intended to improve the state’s retail electricity market, the Commission directed the Office of Competitive Market Oversight to provide recommendations on how the current utility-consolidated bill can provide more supplier information.  The Commission stated that the “expected end-result would look more like a joint EDC-EGS bill.”

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission balances the needs of consumers and utilities; ensures safe and reliable utility service at reasonable rates; protects the public interest; educates consumers to make independent and informed utility choices; furthers economic development; and fosters new technologies and competitive markets in an environmentally sound manner.

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Docket No. M-2014-2401345

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