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PSC denies transfer of customers from TNCI To Matrix

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) has dismissed an application asking permission to transfer customers from TNCI Operating Co. to Matrix Telecom Wednesday morning.

According to documentation on file with the commission, the application does not cite any authority requiring such permission, which prompted the PSC staff to recommend that the company’s motion be dismissed. The motion cited case law that addresses any transfer of telecommunications company assets, but the motion also cites other case law which removes any commission authority to grant or deny permission for the transfer of customers as proposed by the application.

The commission received no response to the motion within the time set out by the order.

The commission, in other action, did approve a request for a variance from Ameren Missouri, asking the commission to significantly reduce or eliminate the current market potential study, a filing necessary when Ameren seeks approval for its demand-side management (DSM) programs and plans.

Ameren Missouri uses a current market potential study as part of a DSM potential study, which it plans to use in its integrated resource plan and filings under the Missouri Energy Efficiency Initiative for 2017.

Ameren Missouri cited, in filings, the commission regulation allowing a variance from DSM filing requirements for good cause. Ameren Missouri alleges that DSM stakeholders want to reduce the cost of the DSM study, of which half come from a current market study. A current market potential study, Ameren Missouri said, can be substituted with ample primary data already gathered and analyzed in its 2010 DSM study, from evaluations and reports on DSM programs since 2010, and its 2013 DSM study.