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Delmarva Power & Light Company (Delmarva) provided electric supply service to Delaware customers through fixed price power supply tariffs offered by Delmarva pursuant to settlements filed with the Delaware Public Service Commission (“Commission”) as part of electric restructuring (Docket No. 99-163) and the merger involving Delmarva and Potomac Electric Power Company (Docket No. 01-194). These offers and Delmarva’s obligation to provide Standard Offer Service (“SOS”) expired as of April 30, 2006. In October 2004, the Commission established Docket No.04-391 to investigate and determine: (a) which entity will act as the SOS supplier in the Delmarva service territory as of May 2006; and (b) what prices will be charged for SOS in the Delmarva service territory as of May 2006. On March 22, 2005 the Commission issued Order No. 6598 addressing certain major policy issues including determining that the SOS shall be provided by Delmarva using a wholesale model (Phase 1). On July 18, 2005, a Phase 2 settlement was presented to the Commission proposing the terms and conditions for provision of electric service at the end of the current fixed price offers. Also included in the settlement was a brief description of the Bid Plan procedures and the Request For Proposal (RFP) process. On September 16, 2005 a detailed Bid Plan which consisted of the Full Requirements Service Agreement (“FSA”) and the RFP was filed with the Commission. On October 11, 2005 in Order No. 6746, the Delaware Public Service Commission approved the settlement agreement by which Delmarva will procure SOS to customers through the competitive selection of wholesale supply. The Bid Plan was approved on October 11, 2005 in Order No.6746 and the first wholesale competitive bid process was completed in February 2006.
On April 6, 2006, the Delaware Legislature enacted the “Electric Utility Retail Customer Supply Act of 2006”. On June 20, 2006 the Commission issued Order No. 6943 initiating a process to revisit the RFP procedures to explore and determine what changes, if any, should be made to the RFP procurement process previously accepted by the Commission in Order No. 6746. On October 3, 2006 the Commission approved consensus recommendations for improving the process and adopted certain additional recommendations related to contested issues. On September 18, 2007, the Commission issued Order No. 7284 approving consensus recommendations and the revised RFP and FSA for the 2008 process to be in place by October 1, 2007.
This RFP reflects the improved wholesale bidding process set forth in Docket No.04-391 to solicit proposals from suppliers interested in providing Fixed Price SOS (“FP-SOS”) to Delmarva for the customer Service Types and terms indicated in Section 2.2 (Product Definition). The RFP is for full requirements wholesale supply service to meet the needs of Delmarva’s SOS retail load obligations in Delaware as described in the settlement and further described in the RFP.
