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Success of Community Electric Aggregations Questioned
On November 14, 2024 the New York PSC directed DPS to work with NYSERDA to obtain a third-party consultant to conduct an extensive evaluation of the CCA program to assess the benefits and effectiveness of the program’s policies and goals. The program evaluation will inform the Commission as it considers whether the opt-out CCA program serves the public interest of mass market customers. The PSC said its review of municipal aggregation is prompted, in part, because CCAs have not been producing savings for retail generation service. Exacerbating the PSC’s concerns with CCAs are the “the frequency and magnitude” of errors in CCA customer enrollments and billing. The PSC also adopted changes to the outreach and education requirements of the CCA program, including requiring CCA Administrators to create a Data Privacy Rights Process within 60-days.
On November 8, 2024 Good Energy, a CCA administrator, informed the PSC that they had returned customers in multiple municipal CCAs to their utilities’ default service because Good Energy was unable to secure a price from any ESCO that falls within 5% of the utility price-to-compare.
Docket No. 14-M-0224 (Proceeding to Enable Community Choice Aggregation Programs)
