Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3106 – Comparative usage data on billing statements
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1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings.
A. “Comparative usage data” means data regarding a customer‘s energy usage for the previous 24 months that compares each month‘s usage between the first 12 months and the 2nd 12 months of usage. [PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
B. “Medium commercial customer” means a nonresidential customer that meets the availability criteria to take service under a core customer class of the transmission and distribution utility that includes a demand charge and in which a customer’s maximum demand does not exceed 500 kilowatts or the utility’s kilowatt break-point between classes that is closest to but does not exceed 500 kilowatts, whichever is lower. [PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
C. “Residential customer” means a customer defined as residential under the terms and conditions of the transmission and distribution utility. [PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
D. “Small commercial customer” means a nonresidential customer that meets the availability criteria to take service under a core customer class of the transmission and distribution utility that does not include a demand charge. [PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
[PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3106
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Customer: includes any person, government or governmental division which has applied for, been accepted and is currently receiving service from a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of:
2. Billing statements. Except as provided in subsection 3, an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility shall provide comparative usage data on customer billing statements of residential customers, small commercial customers and medium commercial customers.
[PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
3. Waiver. The commission, by rule or order, may waive the requirements of this section for an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility for the portion of the service territory of that utility that is located in an area of this State in which the retail market is administered by the independent system administrator for northern Maine if the commission finds that implementation of the requirements of this section is unduly burdensome or cost-prohibitive in that portion of the utility’s service territory.
[PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).]
Revisor’s Note: §3106. Consumer protections; bill information as enacted by PL 2019, c. 88, §1 is REALLOCATED TO TITLE 35-A, SECTION 3107
Revisor’s Note: §3106. Utility service standards as enacted by PL 2019, c. 104, §1 is REALLOCATED TO TITLE 35-A, SECTION 3108
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2019, c. 81, §1 (NEW).