§6102-A. Rate-adjustment mechanism for water utilities
1. Rate-adjustment mechanism. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the commission may establish or authorize a reasonable rate-adjustment mechanism to decouple water utility revenues from water utility sales through revenue reconciliation when changes in sales are due to a change in the number of customers or a change in the volume of consumption. In determining the reasonableness of any such rate-adjustment mechanism, the commission shall apply the standards of section 301 and shall consider the transfer of risks associated with any such changes in sales and, to the extent these risks are transferred between the utility and its customers, the commission shall consider the effect of the transfer of risk in determining a utility's allowed rate of return.
[PL 2015, c. 115, §1 (NEW).]
2. Report. The commission, as part of its annual report pursuant to section 120, shall list rate adjustments that have been requested and those that have been granted.
[PL 2015, c. 115, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2015, c. 115, §1 (NEW).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
Chapter 61: GENERAL PROVISIONS AND RATES
35-A §6102. Filing with the commission plans for construction or improvements of water systems
35-A §6102-A. Rate-adjustment mechanism for water utilities
35-A §6103. Authority for taxation under default
35-A §6104-A. Consumer-owned water utilities; streamlined ratemaking
35-A §6105. Rates for municipal and quasi-municipal water utilities
35-A §6106. Apportionment of costs for water main extensions or service lines
35-A §6107. System development charge
35-A §6107-A. Funding for infrastructure improvements for water utilities
35-A §6108. State contributions
35-A §6109. Sale of land by consumer-owned water utility
35-A §6109-A. Lease of property by consumer-owned water utility
35-A §6109-B. Contracts for large-scale extraction and transportation of water
35-A §6110. Injunctive relief for violations of municipal shoreland zoning ordinances
35-A §6111. Liens on multi-unit residential rental property (REPEALED)
35-A §6111-A. Liens for unpaid rates; multiunit residential rental property
35-A §6111-B. Landlord access to tenant bill payment information
35-A §6111-C. Disconnection of water service for nonpayment of sewer services
35-A §6112. Contingency allowance