Sec. 41.056. ANTICOMPETITIVE ACTIONS. (a) If, after notice and hearing, the commission finds that an electric cooperative providing customer choice has engaged in anticompetitive behavior by not providing other retail electric providers with nondiscriminatory terms and conditions of access to distribution facilities or customers within the electric cooperative's certificated service area that are comparable to the electric cooperative's and its subsidiaries' terms and conditions of access to distribution facilities or customers, the commission shall notify the electric cooperative.
(b) The electric cooperative shall have three months to cure the anticompetitive or noncompliant behavior described in Subsection (a). If the behavior is not fully remedied within that time, the commission may prohibit the electric cooperative or its subsidiary from providing retail service outside its certificated retail service area until the behavior is remedied.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 405, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 2 - Public Utility Regulatory Act
Subtitle B - Electric Utilities
Chapter 41 - Electric Cooperatives and Competition
Subchapter B. Electric Cooperative Utility Choice
Section 41.051. Board Decision
Section 41.052. Electric Cooperatives Not Offering Customer Choice
Section 41.053. Retail Customer Right of Choice
Section 41.054. Service Outside Certificated Area
Section 41.055. Jurisdiction of Board of Directors
Section 41.056. Anticompetitive Actions
Section 41.058. Tariffs for Open Access
Section 41.059. No Power to Amend Certificates
Section 41.060. Customer Service Information
Section 41.061. Retail Rate Changes by Electric Cooperatives