1. Increased efficiency. The Legislature declares and finds that improvements in transmission and distribution utility rate design and related regulatory programs have great potential for reducing the cost of electric utility services to consumers, for encouraging energy conservation and efficient use of existing facilities and for minimizing the need for expensive new electric transmission capacity. It is the purpose of this chapter to:
A. Require the commission to relate transmission and distribution rates more closely to the costs of providing transmission and distribution service; [PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. F, §2 (AMD).]
B. [PL 1999, c. 398, Pt. A, §57 (RP); PL 1999, c. 398, Pt. A, §§104, 105 (AFF).]
C. Require the commission to consider the ability of low-income residential customers to pay in full for electric services as transmission and distribution rates are redesigned consistent with these policies; and [PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. F, §3 (AMD).]
D. Require the commission to set rates to the extent practicable to achieve economic efficiency. [PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. F, §4 (NEW).]

[PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. F, §§2-4 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1987, c. 141, §A6 (NEW). PL 1987, c. 769, §A140 (AMD). PL 1991, c. 253, §§1-3 (AMD). PL 1993, c. 402, §1 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 398, §A57 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 398, §§A104,105 (AFF). PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. F, §§2-4 (AMD).

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3152

  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • 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:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
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