Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, unless an electric utility, including a municipally-owned electric utility or a municipal electric company, has implemented a restructuring plan that provides for retail competition in its Delaware service territory, such electric utility may not use the transmission or distribution facilities of a nonaffiliated electric utility to make sales to customers in such nonaffiliated electric utility’s Delaware service territory; nor shall such electric utility own or receive, directly or indirectly, any economic interest in any entity which uses the transmission or distribution facilities of a nonaffiliated electric utility to make sales to customers in such nonaffiliated electric utility’s Delaware service territory.

72 Del. Laws, c. 10, § ?3;

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1009

  • Distribution facilities: means electric facilities located in Delaware that are owned by a public utility that operate at voltages of 34,500 volts or below and that are used to deliver electricity to customers, up through and including the point of physical connection with electric facilities owned by the customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Retail competition: means the right of a customer to purchase electricity from an electric supplier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001