Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies
Section 16-243v. - Connecticut electric efficiency partner program. Residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program.

(a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Connecticut electric efficiency partner program” means the coordinated effort among the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, persons and entities providing enhanced demand-side management technologies, and electric consumers to conserve electricity and reduce demand in Connecticut through the purchase and deployment of energy efficient technologies; (2) “enhanced demand-side management technologies” means demand-side management solutions, customer-side emergency dispatchable generation resources, customer-side renewable energy generation, load shifting technologies and conservation and load management technologies that reduce electric distribution company customers' electric demand, and high efficiency natural gas and oil boilers and furnaces; and (3) “Connecticut electric efficiency partner” means an electric distribution company customer who acquires an enhanced demand-side management technology or a person, other than an electric distribution company, that provides enhanced demand-side management technologies to electric distribution company customers.

(b) The Energy Conservation Management Board, in consultation with the Renewable Energy Investments Advisory Committee, shall evaluate and approve enhanced demand-side management technologies that can be deployed by Connecticut electric efficiency partners to reduce electric distribution company customers' electric demand. Such evaluation shall include an examination of the potential to reduce customers' demand, federally mandated congestion charges and other electric costs. On or before October 15, 2007, the Energy Conservation Management Board shall file such evaluation with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for the authority to review and approve or to review, modify and approve on or before October 15, 2007.
(c) Not later than October 15, 2007, the Energy Conservation Management Board shall file with the authority for the authority to review and approve or to review, modify and approve, an analysis of the state's electric demand, peak electric demand and growth forecasts for electric demand and peak electric demand. Such analysis shall identify the principal drivers of electric demand and peak electric demand, associated electric charges tied to electric demand and peak electric demand growth, including, but not limited to, federally mandated congestion charges and other electric costs, and any other information the authority deems appropriate. The analysis shall include, but not be limited to, an evaluation of the costs and benefits of the enhanced demand-side management technologies approved pursuant to subsection (b) of this section and establishing suggested funding levels for said individual technologies.
(d) Commencing April 1, 2008, any person may apply to the authority for certification and funding as a Connecticut electric efficiency partner. Such application shall include the technologies that the applicant shall purchase or provide and that have been approved pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. In evaluating the application, the authority shall (1) consider the applicant's potential to reduce customers' electric demand, including peak electric demand, and associated electric charges tied to electric demand and peak electric demand growth, (2) determine the portion of the total cost of each project that shall be paid for by the customer participating in this program and the portion of the total cost of each project that shall be paid for by all electric ratepayers and collected pursuant to subsection (h) of this section. In making such determination, the authority shall ensure that all ratepayer investments maintain a minimum two-to-one payback ratio, and (3) specify that participating Connecticut electric efficiency partners shall maintain the technology for a period sufficient to achieve such investment payback ratio. The annual ratepayer contribution for projects approved pursuant to this section shall not exceed sixty million dollars. Not less than seventy-five per cent of such annual ratepayer investment shall be used for the technologies themselves. No person shall receive electric ratepayer funding pursuant to this subsection if such person has received or is receiving funding from the Conservation and Load Management Plan for the projects included in said person's application. No person shall receive electric ratepayer funding without receiving a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a Connecticut electric efficiency partner by the authority. The authority may grant an applicant a certificate of public convenience if it possesses and demonstrates adequate financial resources, managerial ability and technical competency. The authority may conduct additional requests for proposals from time to time as it deems appropriate. The authority shall specify the manner in which a Connecticut electric efficiency partner shall address measures of effectiveness and shall include performance milestones.
(e) Beginning February 1, 2010, a certified Connecticut electric efficiency partner may only receive funding if selected in a request for proposal developed, issued and evaluated by the authority. In evaluating a proposal, the authority shall take into consideration the potential to reduce customers' electric demand including peak electric demand, and associated electric charges tied to electric demand and peak electric demand growth, including, but not limited to, federally mandated congestion charges and other electric costs, and shall utilize a cost benefit test established pursuant to subsection (c) of this section to rank responses for selection. The authority shall determine the portion of the total cost of each project that shall be paid by the customer participating in this program and the portion of the total cost of each project that shall be paid by all electric ratepayers and collected pursuant to the provisions of this subsection. In making such determination, the authority shall (1) ensure that all ratepayer investments maintain a minimum two-to-one payback ratio, and (2) specify that participating Connecticut electric efficiency partners shall maintain the technology for a period sufficient to achieve such investment payback ratio. The annual ratepayer contribution shall not exceed sixty million dollars. Not less than seventy-five per cent of such annual ratepayer investment shall be used for the technologies themselves. No Connecticut electric efficiency partner shall receive funding pursuant to this subsection if such partner has received or is receiving funding from the Conservation and Load Management Plan for such technology. The authority may conduct additional requests for proposals from time to time as it deems appropriate. The authority shall specify the manner in which a Connecticut electric efficiency partner shall address measures of effectiveness and shall include performance milestones.
(f) The authority may retain the services of a third party entity with expertise in areas such as demand-side management solutions, customer-side renewable energy generation, customer-side distributed generation resources, customer-side emergency dispatchable generation resources, load shifting technologies and conservation and load management investments to assist in the development and operation of the Connecticut electric efficiency partner program. The costs for obtaining third party services pursuant to this subsection shall be recoverable through the systems benefits charge.
(g) The authority shall develop a long-term low-interest loan program to assist certified Connecticut electric efficiency partners in financing the customer portion of the capital costs of approved enhanced demand-side management technologies. The authority may establish such financing mechanism by the use of one or more of the following strategies: (1) Modifying the existing long-term customer-side distributed generation financing mechanism established pursuant to section 16-243j, (2) negotiating and entering into an agreement with Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated to establish a credit facility or to utilize grants, loans or loan guarantees for the purposes of this section upon such terms and conditions as Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated may prescribe including provisions regarding the rights and remedies available to Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated in case of default, or (3) selecting by competitive bid one or more entities that can provide such long-term financing.
(h) The authority shall provide for the payment of electric ratepayers' portion of the costs of deploying enhanced demand-side management technologies by implementing a contractual financing agreement with Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated or a private financing entity selected through an appropriate open competitive selection process. No contractual financing agreements entered into with Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated shall exceed ten million dollars. Any electric ratepayer costs resulting from such financing agreement shall be recovered from all electric ratepayers through the systems benefits charge.
(i) On or before February 15, 2009, and annually thereafter, the authority shall report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy regarding the effectiveness of the Connecticut electric efficiency partner program established pursuant to this section. Said report shall include, but not be limited to, an accounting of all benefits and costs to ratepayers, a description of the approved technologies, the payback ratio of all investments, the number of programs deployed and a list of proposed projects compared to approved projects and reasons for not being approved.
(j) On or before April 1, 2011, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to review the effectiveness of the program and perform a ratepayer cost-benefit analysis. Based upon the authority's findings in the proceeding, the authority may modify or discontinue the partnership program established pursuant to this section.
(k) (1) As used in this section:
(A) “Residential retail end use customer” means any electric, gas or heating fuel customer, regardless of heating source, who wishes to replace heating furnace or boiler equipment, or purchase either an underground or above ground propane fuel tank, including, but not limited to, a propane fuel tank that the residential retail end use customer leases, provided a residential retail end use customer (i) shall be a customer of an electric distribution company, and (ii) shall not include a customer who occupies leased premises or who does not own the premises on which the replacement heating furnace or boiler equipment is located or on which the underground or above ground propane tank to be purchased is located or will be located;
(B) “Heating furnace or boiler equipment” means the primary heating equipment for space and hot water needs, along with the ancillary piping, pumps, duct work and associated other equipment that may be required as part of the replacement of a heating furnace or boiler;
(C) “Furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds” means any funds approved by the third-party administrator pursuant to this subsection, provided (i) such funds may be used for the loan principal in an amount not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, excluding interest expense associated with such loan and the expense for any loan default, and (ii) participating residential retail end use customers may be charged interest on the loan principal in an amount not to exceed three per cent, based on income eligibility as determined by the third-party administrator;
(D) “Electric distribution company” and “gas company” have the same meanings as provided in section 16-1;
(E) “Propane fuel tank” means a tank used to store propane fuel that is used in connection with residential heating of space, hot water needs, operation of an emergency generator for such space or the performance of indoor installed-appliance-based cooking in such space.
(2) Not later than September 1, 2013, the electric distribution and gas companies shall develop a residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program funded by the systems benefits charge pursuant to section 16-245l in a manner that minimizes the impact on ratepayers. Said program shall be reviewed and approved or modified by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Energy Conservation Management Board, within sixty days of receipt of the plan for said program. Said program shall include a contract for retention of a third-party administrator to become effective upon approval of the program by the department. Said program shall continue until the end of the eleventh year of the program. On or before January 1, 2014, the electric distribution and gas companies shall retain the services of a third-party administrator with expertise in developing, implementing and administering residential lending programs, including credit evaluation, to provide financing for improvement projects by property owners, loan servicing and program administration. The third-party administrator shall, in conjunction with the electric distribution companies and gas companies, develop the program. On and after December 29, 2015, said program shall be amended to provide such residential lending to residential retail end use customers who seek to purchase either an underground or above ground propane fuel tank, including, but not limited to, a propane fuel tank that the residential retail end use customer leases.
(3) The third-party administrator shall be responsible for extending loans and administering the residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program to assist residential retail end use customers in funding heating furnace or boiler equipment replacements and propane fuel tank purchases that meet all of the program requirements. (A) For heating furnace or boiler equipment replacements, the program requirements shall include, but not be limited to, (i) the total projected direct cost savings to the eligible residential retail end use customer resulting from the heating furnace or boiler replacement, calculated on an annual basis commencing from the month that the replacement furnace or boiler is projected to be in service, shall be greater than the total cost of the replacement funds over the term of the program in order to qualify for the program, (ii) the eligible customer shall pay a contribution of not less than ten per cent of the total cost of the replacement or conversion of the heating furnace or boiler and any additional amounts that are required in order to meet the program requirements, (iii) eligible customers shall have six consecutive months of timely utility payments and shall not have any past due balance owed to any electric distribution company or gas company, (iv) the term of the repayment of the replacement funds shall be the lesser of (I) the simple payback period of the replacement funds plus two years, or (II) ten years, and (v) the replacement furnace or boiler shall meet or exceed federal Energy Star standards. (B) For propane fuel tank purchases, the program requirements shall include, but not be limited to, (i) eligible customers shall have six consecutive months of timely utility payments and shall not have any past due balance owed to any electric distribution company, propane seller or gas company, (ii) the term of the repayment of the replacement funds shall be not longer than ten years, and (iii) the loan recipient shall have such propane tank inspected on an annual basis and forward a certificate of inspection to the third-party administrator. In the event that such propane tank is found to need repair as a result of such inspection, any person performing such inspection shall inform the homeowner and the applicable local fire marshal. If the requisite repair is not made in a timely fashion or as otherwise recommended or ordered by the local fire marshal, said fire marshal shall render such propane tank inoperable. Eligible residential retail end use customers may apply to the third-party administrator for participation in the program. The third-party administrator shall screen each applicant to ensure that the applicant meets the eligibility requirements and such program requirements prior to accepting the customer into the program. The third-party administrator shall create awareness of the propane fuel tank purchase provisions of the program by the general public and, in particular, by residential propane purchasers.
(4) Program participants shall repay the furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds through a monthly charge on the customer's residential electric or gas utility bill, provided heating fuel customers shall be able to repay such replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds through a monthly charge on such customer's electric or gas utility bill. Furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds provided shall be reflected on the residential retail end use customer's electric service or gas account, as applicable, for the premises on which the replacement heating furnace or boiler equipment or propane fuel tank is located. If the premises are sold, the amount of replacement or propane fuel tank purchase funds remaining to be repaid shall be transferred to subsequent service account holders at such premises, who may become program participants for purposes of the repayment obligation, unless the seller and buyer agree that the loan will not be transferred.
(5) Furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds shall be recovered through the systems benefits charge of the respective electric distribution company where the heating furnace or boiler equipment or propane tank is located. Any program costs incurred by the third-party administrator or the propane or gas company and funds not repaid by customers who default on their repayment obligations and other costs associated with the program or customers' failure to repay replacement or propane fuel tank purchase funds to the third-party administrator shall be recovered through the systems benefits charge. All administrative and capital carrying costs of the electric distribution companies associated with the program shall be recovered by the companies through a reconciling component, such as the systems benefits charge as approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
(6) On or before January 1, 2016, and on or before January 1, 2018, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Energy Conservation Management Board shall engage an independent third party to evaluate and submit a report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy and finance, revenue and bonding on the status of the program. Such report shall also include an evaluation of the program developed pursuant to section 16a-40m. The report shall include, but not be limited to, for each program, a review of (A) cost effectiveness of the program, (B) number of customers served and potential for growth, (C) the customer classes served, and (D) the fuel type of the financed equipment.
(7) The third-party administrator shall be entitled to take all available legal action as may be necessary to secure the furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds and repayment of the funds, including, but not limited to, attaching liens and requiring filings to be made on applicable land records or as otherwise necessary or required.
(P.A. 07-242, S. 94; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 152; P.A. 13-247, S. 117; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 48; P.A. 18-50, S. 14; P.A. 19-35, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 07-242 effective June 4, 2007; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, “Connecticut Development Authority” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated” in Subsecs. (g) and (h), effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-247 added Subsec. (k) re residential furnace and boiler replacement program, effective June 19, 2013; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 amended Subsec. (k) by changing “residential furnace and boiler replacement program” to “residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program”, by redefining “residential retail end use customer”, replacing defined term “furnace or boiler replacement funds” with “furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase funds” and defining “propane fuel tank” in Subdiv. (1), by changing “third year” to “sixth year” in Subdiv. (2), by adding provisions re propane fuel tank purchase in Subdivs. (2) to (5) and (7), by adding “and on or before January 1, 2018,” in Subdiv. (6), and by making conforming changes, effective December 29, 2015; P.A. 18-50 amended Subsecs. (d) and (e) by changing “Energy Conservation and Load Management Funds” to “Conservation and Load Management Plan”, effective January 1, 2020; P.A. 19-35 amended Subsec. (k)(2) by changing “sixth year” to “eleventh year”, effective June 28, 2019.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 16 - Public Service Companies

Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies

Section 16-228. - Telephone lines.

Section 16-229. - Excavation in highway.

Section 16-230. - Bond requirement.

Section 16-231. - Appeal.

Section 16-231a. - Cuts and permanent patches in highway. Inspections. Repairs. Certification.

Section 16-232. - Rights of companies organized under general law.

Section 16-233. - Use of gain by town, city, borough, fire district or Department of Transportation.

Section 16-234. - Conducting vegetation management; notice to abutting and private property owners. Changing location of, erecting or placing wires, conductors, fixtures, structures or apparatus over, on or under any highway or public ground; rights...

Section 16-235. - Control by local authorities. Orders. Appeals.

Section 16-236. - Appraisal of damages; costs.

Section 16-237. - No prescriptive right.

Section 16-238. - Wires may be cut; notice.

Section 16-239. - Dispatches transmitted in order. Exceptions.

Section 16-240 to 16-242. - Delivery of messages. Mortgage by telegraph company. Telephone service to telegraph companies.

Section 16-243. - Jurisdiction of authority over electricity transmission lines.

Section 16-243a. - Private power producers. Purchase and sale of electricity. Avoided costs. Small renewable power projects. Interconnectivity standards.

Section 16-243aa. - Distribution of electricity across a public highway or street by a municipality or state or federal governmental entity.

Section 16-243b. - Definitions. Jurisdiction.

Section 16-243bb. - Adjustment of electric distribution company residential fixed charge.

Section 16-243c. - Electricity transmission and distribution services for electric cooperatives utilizing cogeneration technology and renewable energy resources.

Section 16-243cc. - Energy storage deployment. Report.

Section 16-243d. - Project by private power producer deemed “industrial project”.

Section 16-243dd. - Energy storage project proposals.

Section 16-243e. - Electric distribution company purchase of electricity generated by municipal resources recovery facilities.

Section 16-243ee. - Electric energy storage resource programs and associated funding mechanisms. Report.

Section 16-243f. - Private power providers. Regulations concerning the purchase and sale of electricity.

Section 16-243g. - Assignment of electricity purchase agreements.

Section 16-243h. - Credit to residential customers who generate electricity; metering.

Section 16-243i. - Awards to retail end use electric customers and electric distribution companies re customer-side distributed resources.

Section 16-243j. - Long-term financing for customer-side distributed resources and advanced power monitoring and metering equipment.

Section 16-243k. - Assessment of customer-side and grid-side distributed resources, effectiveness of award program.

Section 16-243l. - Rebate for customer-side distributed resource projects that use natural gas.

Section 16-243m. - Measures to reduce federally mandated congestion charges.

Section 16-243n. - Time-of-use, mandatory peak, shoulder, off-peak and seasonal rates. Optional interruptible or load response rates.

Section 16-243o. - Waiver of back-up power rates.

Section 16-243p. - Recovery of costs, investments and lost revenues by an electric distribution company.

Section 16-243q. - Class III renewable energy portfolio standards.

Section 16-243r. - Customer-side distributed resources and grid-side distributed resources. Qualifications for applicability of certain provisions.

Section 16-243s. - Awards to electric distribution companies for programs for load curtailment, demand reduction and retrofit conservation.

Section 16-243t. - Class III credits.

Section 16-243u. - Plan to build peaking generation.

Section 16-243v. - Connecticut electric efficiency partner program. Residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program.

Section 16-243w. - Advanced metering system plan and deployment.

Section 16-243x. - Time-of-use meters. Notice of availability.

Section 16-243y. - Microgrid and resilience grant and loan pilot program to support distributed energy generation for critical facilities.

Section 16-243z. - Geographic information systems data sharing. Disclosure of locations of medical hardship accounts in emergencies.

Section 16-244. - Electric deregulation; findings and declarations.

Section 16-244a. - Rate freeze for electric service.

Section 16-244aa. - Performance-based regulation of electric distribution companies.

Section 16-244b. - Electric customers to choose electric suppliers. Phase-in of electric deregulation.

Section 16-244bb. - Sustainable materials management account.

Section 16-244c. - Standard service. Alternative standard service. Supplier of last resort. Back-up generation service. Participating electric suppliers.

Section 16-244cc. - Energy storage systems pilot program.

Section 16-244d. - Program for distribution of information re electric suppliers. Rate board Internet web site.

Section 16-244e. - Ownership or operation of generation assets. Customer bill. Energy storage systems to enhance distribution reliability or resiliency.

Section 16-244f. - Divestiture of nonnuclear electric generation facilities. Plan. Approval of sale by authority.

Section 16-244g. - Divestiture of nuclear electric generation facilities. Plan. Approval of sale by authority.

Section 16-244h. - Code of conduct for electric distribution companies, generation entities or affiliates and electric suppliers. Contents of code. Penalties, damages.

Section 16-244i. - Duties of electric distribution companies.

Section 16-244j. - Electric transmission lines from Bethel to Norwalk. Moratorium. Working group and comprehensive assessment.

Section 16-244k. - Allocation of the proceeds of the retail adder.

Section 16-244l. - Modification of fuel cell electricity purchase agreements.

Section 16-244m. - Procurement Plan re standard service.

Section 16-244n. - Standard service contract buydown.

Section 16-244o. - Generation evaluation and procurement process.

Section 16-244p. - Transmission line project review.

Section 16-244q. - Request for proposal re reliability concerns.

Section 16-244r. - Long-term contracts re zero emission generation projects. Solicitation of Class I generation projects. Renewable energy credits.

Section 16-244s. - Zero emission generation projects solicitation plan. Procurement plan. Noncompliance fee.

Section 16-244t. - Power purchase contracts re low-emission generation projects. Renewable energy credits.

Section 16-244u. - Virtual net metering.

Section 16-244v. - Renewable energy sources generation. Proposals to build, own or operate facilities.

Section 16-244w. - Grid-side system enhancements pilot program.

Section 16-244x. - Shared clean energy facility pilot program.

Section 16-244y. - Fuel cell electricity generation. Soliciation of proposals to aquire new fuel cell electricity generation projects with associated tariffs.

Section 16-244z. - Renewable energy tariffs.

Section 16-245. - Licensing of electric suppliers. Customer assignment or transfer. Procedures. Penalties. Regulation of electric aggregators. Procedures. Penalties.

Section 16-245a. - Renewable portfolio standards.

Section 16-245aa. - Renewable energy and efficient energy finance program.

Section 16-245b. - Municipalities and regional water authorities acting as electric aggregators; registration with Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

Section 16-245bb. - Bond authorization.

Section 16-245c. - Municipal electric utilities participating in deregulated environment. Authority to provide generation services outside service area.

Section 16-245cc. - Demand charge waiver for fuel cells.

Section 16-245d. - Billing of electric service. Standard format. Contents. Bill inserts and mailings. Electronic bill payment confirmation.

Section 16-245dd. - Residential electric space heating tariff.

Section 16-245e. - Stranded costs of electric distribution companies. Definitions. Calculation by authority. Procedures. Adjustments. Mitigation.

Section 16-245ee. - Energy conservation and load management and renewable energy projects in lower income communities. Requirements for approval.

Section 16-245f. - Funding of certain disbursements to the General Fund. Funding of stranded costs through rate reduction bonds. Funding of economic recovery transfer through economic recovery revenue bonds. Assessment.

Section 16-245ff. - Residential solar investment program.

Section 16-245g. - Competitive transition assessment. Determination by authority of amount and how applied to electric customers. Duration.

Section 16-245gg. - Master purchase agreement for solar home renewable energy credits.

Section 16-245h. - Transition property. Surplus competitive transition assessment. Restrictions on use of transition property by electric distribution companies.

Section 16-245hh. - Condominium renewable energy grant program.

Section 16-245i. - Financing orders re the economic recovery transfer, the Energy Conservation and Load Management Fund, the Clean Energy Fund and stranded costs.

Section 16-245ii. - Energy consumption data of nonresidential buildings.

Section 16-245j. - Rate reduction bonds and economic recovery revenue bonds; terms.

Section 16-245jj. - Town customer electricity and gas usage information.

Section 16-245k. - Security interest in transition property; creation; perfection. Transferring transition property. Duration of authority to issue financing orders.

Section 16-245kk. - Issuance of bonds, notes and other obligations by the Connecticut Green Bank.

Section 16-245l. - Systems benefits charge. Determination by authority of amount and how applied to customers.

Section 16-245ll. - Clean energy bonds.

Section 16-245m. - Energy Conservation Management Board. Conservation and Load Management Plan.

Section 16-245mm. - Special capital reserve funds.

Section 16-245n. - Connecticut Green Bank. Charge assessed against electric customers. Clean Energy Fund. Environmental Infrastructure Fund.

Section 16-245nn. - Residential solar photovoltaic system permit.

Section 16-245o. - Use of customer information. Promotional inserts in electric bills prohibited. Standard form re contract terms and conditions. Procedures for entering, renewing and terminating service contracts. Rate increase disclosures. Marketin...

Section 16-245p. - Information re electric supplier and electric distribution company to be provided to customers.

Section 16-245q. - Changing electric suppliers.

Section 16-245r. - Discrimination by electric suppliers prohibited.

Section 16-245s. - Switching electric suppliers; procedures; penalties; regulations.

Section 16-245t. - Complaints to authority re electric suppliers; procedures; remedies.

Section 16-245u. - Unfair and discriminatory conduct and unfair trade practices in electric market prohibited. Investigations.

Section 16-245v. - List of displaced electric utility employees to be provided to distribution companies and electric suppliers.

Section 16-245w. - Fee to be paid by self-generation facilities in lieu of certain assessments; study by authority.

Section 16-245x. - Monitoring and reporting by authority of electric rates of each customer class. Action to minimize rate differential.

Section 16-245y. - Annual reporting re status of electric deregulation.

Section 16-245z. - Internet links to Energy Star program.

Section 16-246. - Other companies which may sell electricity.

Section 16-246a. - Definitions.

Section 16-246b to 16-246d. - Area within which domestic company may generate and transmit electric energy. Area within which foreign electric company may generate and transmit electric energy. Joint ownership of facility; waiver of right to petition...

Section 16-246e. - Procurement and sale by authority of electric power capacity and power output from out-of-state producers. Approval by Governor.

Section 16-246f. - Electric company emergency assistance.

Section 16-246g. - Pilot program for electric generation.

Section 16-247. - Foreign telephone companies.

Section 16-247a. - Goals of the state. Definitions.

Section 16-247b. - Unbundling of telephone company's network, services and functions. Access to telephone company's telecommunications services, functions and unbundled network elements. Rates for competitive or emerging competitive service. Subsidiz...

Section 16-247c. - Provision of intrastate telecommunications services. Civil penalty. Competition.

Section 16-247d. - Biennial reports on competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service. Plan for implementing competition. General Assembly approval required.

Section 16-247e. - Basic telecommunications services. Lifeline and telecommunications relay service programs. Universal service program.

Section 16-247f. - Regulation of telecommunication services: Initial classifications, reclassifications, tariffs, exemption from filing tariff.

Section 16-247g. - Certificate of public convenience and necessity for intrastate telecommunications services: Application, requirements, suspension, revocation. Fees. Obligation to serve.

Section 16-247h. - Use of public right-of-way for provision of intrastate telecommunications service.

Section 16-247i. - Telecommunications service and regulation status report.

Section 16-247j. - Regulations.

Section 16-247k. - Alternative forms of regulation for telephone companies: Plan requirements, monitoring period, modification.

Section 16-247l. - Access by certified telecommunications providers to occupied buildings: Service, wiring, compensation, regulations, civil penalty.

Section 16-247m. - Withdrawal by telephone company of retail telecommunications service. Applications.

Section 16-247n. - Certification of telephone company's operations support systems interface. Rates. Proceedings.

Section 16-247o. - Consultant to test operations support systems interface.

Section 16-247p. - Quality-of-service standards. Performance standards.

Section 16-247q. - Education outreach program for telecommunications competition, scope. Consumer Education Advisory Council established.

Section 16-247r. - Discrimination by telephone companies and certified telecommunications providers prohibited.

Section 16-247s. - Directory assistance database. Disclosure and distribution of cellular mobile telephone numbers.

Section 16-247t. - Customer inquiries and complaints regarding cellular mobile telephone service.

Section 16-247u. - Unauthorized procurement and sale of telephone records. Definitions. Exclusions. Telephone company protection of records. Penalties. Unfair trade practice.

Section 16-247v. - Performance standards for restoration of intrastate telecommunications service after emergencies. Credit for service outages.

Section 16-248. - Rights of telephone company in operation May 23, 1985.

Section 16-249 to 16-250a. - Authority finding re extension of exchange business of telephone company. Determination of public convenience and necessity for extension. Reselling or sharing of line purchased or leased from telephone company.

Section 16-250b. - Cellular mobile telephone service. Authority jurisdiction. Regulations.

Section 16-251. - Bonds of telephone company.

Section 16-252. - Bonds may be secured by mortgage.

Section 16-253 and 16-254. - Amount of capital to be paid in. Subscriptions for cash. Sections 16-253 and 16-254 are repealed, effective October 1, 2002.

Section 16-255. - General powers.

Section 16-255a to 16-255i. - Acquisition of control of domestic telephone companies limited; statement; expenses of department. Form of statement. Hearing re department approval of acquisition; standard of review. Nonvotable securities; injunctive r...

Section 16-256. - Notice of offense in party line usage in telephone directory.

Section 16-256a. - Directory assistance charge prohibited.

Section 16-256b. - Special telecommunications equipment for deaf and hearing impaired persons. Fund. Amplification controls for coin and coinless telephones installed for public or semipublic use.

Section 16-256c. - Extended local calling criteria. Calling volume. Subscriber survey and vote. Petitions.

Section 16-256d. - Itemized telephone bills for business customers.

Section 16-256e. - Recorded telephone message devices prohibited. Blocking devices or services prohibited: Class A misdemeanor.

Section 16-256f. - Blocking service available to customers.

Section 16-256g. - Proceeding to determine monthly subscriber fee. Assessment of subscribers for enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program.

Section 16-256h. - Business to residential pricing ratio for basic exchange service.

Section 16-256i. - Primary local or intrastate interexchange carrier orders. Unauthorized switching. Penalty.

Section 16-256j. - Billing for telecommunications services. Information re carriers, basic, local service and taxes.

Section 16-256k. - Disclosure for removal or change in telecommunications service. Disclosure for promotional offerings.

Section 16-257. - Recording of agreement of consolidation or merger of electric and gas companies.

Section 16-258. - Standards concerning electricity and gas.

Section 16-258a. - Registration of natural gas sellers. Procedures. Penalties.

Section 16-258b. - Registration of electric generating facilities.

Section 16-258c. - Dual fuel capability requirements for electric generating facilities.

Section 16-258d. - District heating systems incentive program.

Section 16-258e. - Electric distribution company procurement of electricity and renewable energy credits from a combined heat and power system.

Section 16-259. - Inspection of meters.

Section 16-259a. - Inaccurate billing. Financial liability of customer. Payment plan.

Section 16-260. - Water meters may be required.

Section 16-261. - Extension of electric lines to unserved areas. Determination of rates.

Section 16-261a. - Interagency electric and magnetic fields task force; composition; study. Assessment of electric public service companies for specified expenses of task force.

Section 16-262. - Gas companies authorized to deal in natural gas.

Section 16-262a. - Water company to have area resident as director or advisory council of area residents.

Section 16-262b. - Notice of discharge of explosives or highway excavation to gas companies.

Section 16-262c. - Termination of utility service for nonpayment, when prohibited. Amortization agreements. Moneys allowed to be deducted from customers' accounts and moneys to be included in rates as an operating expense. Hardship cases. Notice. Reg...

Section 16-262d. - Termination of residential utility service on account of nonpayment. Notice. Nontermination in event of illness during pendency of customer complaint or investigation. Amortization agreement. Appeal. Notice re credit rating informa...

Section 16-262e. - Notice furnished tenants re intended termination of utility service. Assumption by tenants of liability for future service. Liability of landlords for certain utility services. Deduction from rent. Access to meters.

Section 16-262f. - Action for receivership of rents and common expenses by electric distribution, gas and telephone companies; petition; hearing; appointment; duties; termination.

Section 16-262g. - Penalty.

Section 16-262h. - Nonexclusivity of remedy.

Section 16-262i. - Regulations.

Section 16-262j. - Refusal of residential utility service. Regulations. Refusal of telecommunications service to a candidate or committee. Interest on customer security deposits.

Section 16-262k. - Interconnection of public water supply systems to relieve site-specific water shortages.

Section 16-262l. - Receivership of water companies for failure to provide adequate service. Personal liability of directors, officers and managers.

Section 16-262m. - Construction specifications for water companies.

Section 16-262n. - Definition. Economic viability of water companies. Reviews. Failure to comply with orders. Hearings.

Section 16-262o. - Acquisition of water company ordered by authority. Rates and charges. Recovery of acquisition costs.

Section 16-262p. - Improvements by acquiring entity.

Section 16-262q. - Compensation for acquisition of water company.

Section 16-262r. - Satellite management of water companies. Expedited rate proceedings.

Section 16-262s. - Voluntary acquisition of water company. Surcharges. Rate of return.

Section 16-262t. - Action for receivership of rent and common expenses by water companies; petition; hearing; appointment; duties; termination.

Section 16-262u. - Replacement and repair of water service connections. Granting of exceptions.

Section 16-262v. - Water company infrastructure projects: Definitions.

Section 16-262w. - Water company rate adjustment mechanisms.

Section 16-262x. - Termination of residential utility service. Requirements.

Section 16-262y. - Water company revenue adjustment mechanism.

Section 16-262z. - Properties served by deficient well systems. Extension of service by water company.