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PUC preserves winter-moratorium protections after Chapter 14 expired; lawmakers press for legislative reauthorization
Summary
Steve DeFrank, chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee the commission adopted a December 2024 policy order to preserve consumer protections formerly codified in Chapter 14 after the law expired in 2024.
Steve DeFrank, chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee that the commission issued a December 2024 order to maintain the consumer safeguards that Chapter 14 previously codified after the legislature did not reauthorize the chapter when it expired in 2024.
DeFrank said Chapter 14 was adopted after the Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) cash-flow crisis and set income-based parameters for winter moratorium protections. He told the committee the statute first took effect in 2004, was renewed in 2014, and expired in 2024. ‘‘Chapter 14 limits the rights of the PUC,’’ DeFrank said, adding the December 2024…
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