We have lived in Allegheny County for 5 1/2 years. We used to purchase power from Green Mountain Energy, but now our only option is Duquesne Light. This gives them an effective monopoly over the people in my area. On their website, DL reports that, until May 2008, I can purchase electricity from People's Dominion Plus, at a price equal to 10% that of Duquese Light. I though price-fixing was illegal. Moreover, I don't see an option anywhere to freely choose my supplier.
Duquesne Light's new rates are 8.14 cents per kilowatt hour. By comparion, Allegheny Power's rates are 5.1 cents per kilowatt hour.
So I decided to write to DL, and inquire about my optionsas a consumer. I cc'd the email to the Governor's office and to the office of the Attorny General.
Here is the error I received from their web site. Apparently DL doesn't want to communicate with their customers in writing. Personal details are x'd out:
Error Executing Database Query. |
| [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0904N Unsuccessful execution caused by an unavailable resource. Reason code: "00C90097", type of resource: "00000200", and resource name: "DCSPDB17.CSSTSSB0 ". SQLSTATE=57011 |
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The error occurred in E:\Inetpub\secure.dqe.com\dlx\ContactUs\Email\processing\processContactUs.cfm: line 103
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101 : <cfelse>
102 : '',
103 : </cfif>
104 : 'N')
105 : </cfquery>
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| SQL | Insert Into ZDCSP.CSS_CCT_MAIN (CODE_CCT_TYPE , ACCOUNT_NO , CODE_STATUS , CODE_ORIG , USER_ID , NAME , STREET , CITY , STATE , ZIP , TELEPHONE , EMAIL , COMMENT , CODE_ATTACH ) Values ('HB' , 4001264388001 , 'RD' , 'EXT' , '' , 'xxxxxxxxxxx' , 'xxxxxxxx' , 'xxxxxx' , 'PA' , '15101-' , 'xxx-xxx-xxxx' , 'xxxxx@yahoo.com' , '(this is an email query to Duquesne Light, cc''d to the Governor) Dear Duquesne Light: Our rates recently increased. We also note that Allegeny Power''s rates are 5.1 cents per kilowatt hour, while yours are 8.41 cents per kilowatt hour. I am'||' deeply concerned about price gouging. I would, therefore, like to know which alternative suppliers I might choose from, to avoid the effective monopoly that Duquesne Light current enjoys over the people of our area? I understand that Dominion''s'||' People Plus provides electricity at a rate tied to that of Duquesne Light (10%) until May 2008; this is a thinly veiled loophole to avoid charges of monopoly? Please provide information on our options for consuming green energy as well. I am c'||'c''ing Governor Rendell''s office and the PA Attorney General''s office via another email. Thank you, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx '||''||''||''||'', 'N') | | DATASOURCE | DB2PWP00 | | VENDORERRORCODE | -904 | | SQLSTATE | 57011 | |
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| Browser | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 | | Remote Address | 71.182.155.227 | | Referrer | https://secure.dqe.com/dlx/ContactUs/Email/default.cfm | | Date/Time | 24-Feb-08 08:03 AM | |
| Stack Trace |
at cfprocessContactUs2ecfm1594091954.runPage(E:\Inetpub\secure.dqe.com\dlx\ContactUs\Email\processing\processContactUs.cfm:103) at cfprocessContactUs2ecfm1594091954.runPage(E:\Inetpub\secure.dqe.com\dlx\ContactUs\Email\processing\processContactUs.cfm:103)
COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.DB2Exception: [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0904N Unsuccessful execution caused by an unavailable resource. Reason code: "00C90097", type of resource: "00000200", and resource name: "DCSPDB17.CSSTSSB0 ". SQLSTATE=57011
at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.SQLExceptionGenerator.throw_SQLException(SQLExceptionGenerator.java:263)
at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.SQLExceptionGenerator.throw_SQLException(SQLExceptionGenerator.java:206)
at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.SQLExceptionGenerator.check_return_code(SQLExceptionGenerator.java:445)
at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Statement.execute2(DB2Statement.java:594)
at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Statement.execute(DB2Statement.java:371)
at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.JRunStatement.execute(JRunStatement.java:212)
at coldfusion.sql.Executive.executeQuery(Executive.java:705)
at coldfusion.sql.Executive.executeQuery(Executive.java:638)
at coldfusion.sql.Executive.executeQuery(Executive.java:599)
at coldfusion.sql.SqlImpl.execute(SqlImpl.java:236)
at coldfusion.tagext.sql.QueryTag.doEndTag(QueryTag.java:498)
at cfprocessContactUs2ecfm1594091954.runPage(E:\Inetpub\secure.dqe.com\dlx\ContactUs\Email\processing\processContactUs.cfm:103)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:152)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:343)
at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:210)
at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:51)
at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86)
at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:50)
at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:105)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:78)
at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:91)
at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:257)
at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:527)
at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:204)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:349)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:457)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:295)
at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)
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