As a result of the capacity market price increases, the costs of which are flowed through to customers, and per direction to EDCs from the BPU, PSE&G filed a petition in May 2025 that provided proposals to mitigate bill impacts to customers. In June 2025, the BPU approved a settlement under which PSE&G applied a credit to each residential electric customer’s monthly bill for July 2025 and August 2025, with the offset being charged on monthly bills for September 2025 through February 2026. PSE&G agreed to waive carrying costs on the outstanding credit amount. In addition, PSE&G agreed to: extend protections precluding the shut-off of eligible residential customers, normally available during the winter months, to the period from July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2025; offer residential customers deferred payment arrangements with terms of up to twenty-four months for the payment of overdue billed amounts; and waive all reconnection fees for residential customers during the period from July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2025. In September 2025, the New Jersey Legislature enacted a law prohibiting disconnection for non-payment during the period June 15 through August 31, beginning in 2026, and for such period annually thereafter, for certain qualified electric and gas customers. This new requirement for a summer shutoff moratorium and the extended deferred payment arrangements have increased our Accounts Receivable and bad debt expense in 2025 with potential additional increases in the future.
There have been a number of federal executive orders during the past year, including but not limited to orders requiring retiring generating units to stay on-line beyond their retirement date to mitigate system reliability risk and orders imposing widespread and substantial tariffs on imports.
There has been increased New Jersey state legislative activity and executive orders regarding energy affordability, resource adequacy and regulatory topics.
We are continuing to monitor the federal and state legislative activity and executive orders, certain of which may require regulatory actions to implement, and their impacts on our supply chain, business, cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 26, 2026. Read the filing