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POR Technical Conference Scheduled
District of Columbia PSC has scheduled a virtual technical conference for Thursday, July 23, 2026, related to cases to evaluate the feasibility of including an administrative adder as part of the Purchase of Receivables (POR) discount rate at Pepco and Washington Gas Light.
As previously reported, the District of Columbia’s PSC recommended that a technical conference be held as part of a recent order which included changes to the design of the residential purchase of receivables (POR) programs at Pepco and Washington Gas Light. It was decided that whether a customer classes a POR admin. adder would be applied would be evaluated pending further study.
The PSC reported that, among retail suppliers with residential customers, the retail supplier with the lowest customer arrearage rate was approximately 20 times lower than that of the retail suppliers with the highest arrearage rate, “which underscores the need for a multi-tiered rate structure.
“[T]he Commission generally agrees … that the discount rate should be designed to capture the default rate disparity between suppliers.”
The technical conference discussions shall include, but are not limited to:
(1) What are the challenges to implementing a multi-tiered discount rate?
(2) What changes are necessary to Pepco and WGL’s billing system in order to implement a multi-tiered discount rate?
(3) What are the cost implications for implementing a multi-tiered discount rate?
(4) What is the optimal number of tiers under a multi-tier framework?
(5) What is the timeline for implementation of the multi-tiered discount rate?
(6) What is the nature and frequency of reports that Pepco and WGL should provide?
