DAT 00026

Question: Does the non-shopping, hourly load data provided on the Information Website include or exclude PIPP load?

Answer: Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) data are not part of the non-shopping hourly load data posted on the Information Website. PIPP data are provided separately on the Website and can be obtained from the file, “PIPP Customer Data”.

DAT 00028

Question: Are the values posted to the Information Website in the file "Capacity and Transmission PLC.xls", equal to the Obligation Peak Load or is the Obligation Peak Load a function of the PLC values and the Daily Zonal Scaling Factor?

Answer: The Obligation Peak load is a function of the Peak Load Contribution (PLC) values and the Daily Zonal Scaling Factor.

DAT 00029

Question: Can FE provide auction winners with access to instantaneous, real-time load information? This would help winners mitigate real-time risk. Before auctions became the standard format to serve load in Ohio, utilities were able to get the hourly, real-time load information which they could use to hedge exposure in the real-time market. Is this something FE could provide to the winners, rather than having a day or two lag on load data?

Answer: No. The FirstEnergy Ohio utilities do not have access to real-time data of the Standard Service Offer (SSO) obligation.

DAT 00031

Question: Are the data included in the FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities' Historical Hourly Loads by Class files included on the Information Website presented in Eastern Standard Time?

Answer: No. The data are in Eastern Prevailing Time.

DAT 00033

Question: In the "Capacity and Transmission PLC" data file, does the "RES Shopped" column on the Capacity PLS tab include the PIPP load?

Answer: No. The Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) load is shown on its own tab.

DAT 00034

Question: In the "Capacity and Transmission PLC" data file, the Grand Total column is the Total FE Load PLC. Can you provide the corresponding UCAP for the Total FE Load?

Answer: No. The data needed to make calculations of this type are publicly available. The Final Zonal RPM Scaling Factors and the Forecast Pool Requirement can be found on the PJM Website. The Daily Zonal Scaling Factors are posted with the load and other data on this Information Website.

DAT 00035

Question: As a follow-up to DAT 00033, is the Grand Total column on the Capacity PLS tab not inclusive of PIPP?  The PLS data for the entire FE Ohio footprint would be the sum of the PIPP Capacity PLS tab and the Grand Total column of the Capacity PLS tab?

Answer: That is correct. The Grand Total column does not include Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP).

DAT 00037

Question: The hourly load on the Auction Information Website states that Economic Load Response (ELR) load has been removed from the non-shopping load as of 1/1/2015. Has the Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP) load also been removed from the non-shopping load?

Answer: The PIPP load is not included in the non-shopping load data.  See FAQs DAT 00026, DAT 00033, and DAT 00035.

DAT 00041

Question: Is the ELR customer data based on customers currently participating in the ELR Program or customers that are eligible to participate in the ELR Program? If not all the ELR eligible customers are participating in the ELR Program, can you please provide a breakdown of a) customers eligible to participate in ELR but choosing to switch to a CRES supplier, b) customers eligible to participate in ELR but choosing to stay on SSO service without participating in the ELR program, and c) customers eligible to participate in ELR and choosing to do so (and by definition remaining on SSO service)?

Answer: The requested ELR breakdown is not available. ELR customers can choose to shop or not. Therefore, ELR customer data is reflected in both the shop/non-shop categories in their respective class in the posted Hourly Load files.

DAT 00042

Question: This question uses historical data from January 1, 2014 hour ending 1. Total MW = 5,331 Shopping MW = 4,342 Non-Shopping MW = 988 UFE MW = 570 PIPP MW = 227 Derate factor = 0.0209 Tranche Size = 1% A) Does the percentage of Unaccounted for Energy (UFE) that SSO Suppliers are responsible for include PIPP Load? In other words, is it equal to 18.5% (988 divided by 5,331) or 17.8% (988 divided by the sum of 5,331 and 227)? Or is it some other number? B) If a SSO Supplier was supplying load for this hour would it be responsible for 10.71 MW [(988 + 0.185 * 570) * (1 - 0.0209)] * 0.01 or 10.67MW [(988 + 0.178 * 570) * (1 - 0.0209)] * 0.01? Or is it some other number?

Answer: A) The percentage used to calculate what UFE that SSO Suppliers are responsible for is the same percentage used to calculate what UFE PIPP suppliers are responsible for. The latter formula would apply, which equals 17.8% when using your rounded numbers.

B) 10.67MW. In addition to providing the UFE for an hour, we also provide the UFE factor, which for January 1, 2014 HE 1 is 1.1025 [(5,331+570+227)/(5,331+227)]. Another way to write the expression using the UFE factor would be [(988*1.1025)*(1-0.0209)]*0.01 when using your rounded numbers.

DAT 00044

Question: Can you provide information on government/municipal aggregations in the FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities’ service territories?

Answer: The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio post information regarding governmental aggregation at the following link: https://puco.ohio.gov/utilities/electricity/resources/government-aggregation

DAT 00050

Question: Can the FEOU provide details regarding when the customer counts are taken? For example, is it a snapshot taken at the beginning of the month, end of the month, or is an average across all days in the month used?

Answer: The customer counts within the Historical Customer Switching report, are obtained at the end of the most recent month.

DAT 00054

Question: Regarding DAT00053, I would like to confirm that 'several Toledo Edison customers switched from shopping to non-shopping in Jan '22, and those switches from shopping to non-shopping explain the increase in PLCs and load for shopping industrial customers.

Answer: This statement is correct.

DAT 00055

Question: Can FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities please provide load and PLC data for the NOPEC aggregation and expected date for the NOPEC aggregation to return to Standard Offer Service? In addition, can the Company please provide a full dataset for government aggregations?

Answer: The FirstEnergy Ohio Utilities (“FEOU”) have requested this data from NOPEC, but at the time of this FAQ we do not have the data yet. Once the data is available we will post it to our load data area on this site. Additionally, FEOU does not have load information segregated by government aggregation thus this dataset is not available.

DAT 00056

Question: Does the decline in CEI non-shopped industrial load from 6/30/22 HE 24 to 7/1 HE 1 indicate customers returning to shopped status? What limits exist for industrial customer switching? For example, when could the Toledo Edison customers referenced in DAT 00053 switch back?

Answer: The decline in CEI non-shopped industrial load from 6/30/2022 to 7/1/2022 is due to a large industrial customer significantly dropping load during the month of July. Within Ohio, a customer can choose to change suppliers anytime, but the timing of the switch must be consistent with the terms of the utility’s approved tariffs.

DAT 00060

Question: When you next update your data to include October, would you please let us know what % of the NOPEC adds are in the data?

Answer: FEOU does not track returning customers separately from existing SSO load and is accordingly not able to report the % of load that results from NOPEC adds or drops.

DAT 00065

Question: Can FEOH provide a list of municipal/government aggregation customer counts with usage broken out by customer class, year and month?

Answer: FEOU is able to provide the following: For January 2023 there were 448,505 residential customers and 40,595 non-residential customers served through municipal/government aggregation. Total MWh served in both classes were 420,544.57 and 91,034.88 respectively.

DAT 00066

Question: We noticed a considerable drop in Default Service PLC starting from March 1st, 2023 as we are serving the load. We are wondering if this migration is happening as a result of customers are returning to NOPEC or any other retailer. We appreciate your comments and explanation regarding this recent significant migration.

Answer: The change in PLC on 3/1/2023 is associated with several large customers moving from SSO service to competitive retail electric suppliers.