FirstEnergy passes on the costs assocatied with Ohio’s energy efficiency mandates to their customers through a charge called the DSE2 charge. FirstEnergy recently announced their new DSE2 rates that will take effect on January 1, 2012. The current and new rates in cents per kilowatt hour, by utility and rate schedule, are summarized in the table below.
If the rates for your rate schedule are increasing and you are a “mercantile” customer, it is now even more important to see if you can qualify for exemption from the energy efficiency charges. Contact us if you have any questions about your situation.
The Ohio Fair Managers has entered with our Lobbyist, Towner Policy Group, Columbus, Ohio the AEP small business owners fight. Most of our fairs connected to the AEP grid are 1 week high consumption users falling on to the AEP sword of the 60% demand rider. There new billings took effect this past month and they are seeing their bills and we have them talking in earnest tot eh PUCO, their Customer Service Aep reps and sending letters to the Governor and the legislature in their area. Interesting that AEP has an agricultural rate with a 25% demand rider that suddenly appeared this past week that I cannot find as of today in the rate case but will continue to look at. Another interesting note is the distribution increase cost, wow what and increase.
Howard Call, Stow, Ohio