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...therefor as prescribed by law for like services.

...ssion no later than: (1) Any specific deadline established by order of the commission for purposes of a particular proceeding; or, if no such deadline is established; (2) Five days prior to the scheduled date of hearing. The public utilities commission may, in its discretion, grant motions to intervene which are filed after the deadlines set forth in divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section for good cause shown...

...ices, rentals, regulations, practices, services, fares, and charges, and copies of all contracts, agreements, and arrangements between public utilities and railroads, or either, filed with the commission, and the statistics, tables, and figures contained in the annual or other reports of such companies made to the commission as required by the chapters, shall be preserved as public records in the custody of th...

...classification of service is unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, unjustly discriminatory, unjustly preferential, or in violation of law, or that any service is inadequate or cannot be obtained, the public utility found to be at fault shall pay the expenses incurred by the commission upon such investigation. All fees, expenses, and costs of, or in connection with, any hearing or investigation may be imposed by the co...

...ect to any public utility or railroad. Each day's continuance of such failure is a separate offense.

...For all cases involving an application pursuant to section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall not permit any new discovery beginning not later than two hundred fifteen days after the application is determined to be complete.

...Whoever violates section 4903.25 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...ction 4928.621 of the Revised Code. (26) "Regulatory assets" means the unamortized net regulatory assets that are capitalized or deferred on the regulatory books of the electric utility, pursuant to an order or practice of the public utilities commission or pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles as a result of a prior commission rate-making decision, and that would otherwise have been charged to expe...

..., and reasonably priced retail electric service; (B) Ensure the availability of unbundled and comparable retail electric service that provides consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their respective needs; (C) Ensure diversity of electricity supplies and suppliers, by giving consumers effective choices over the selection of those supplies and suppliers and by...

...ithstanding any other provision of law, each consumer in this state and the suppliers to a consumer shall have comparable and nondiscriminatory access to noncompetitive retail electric services of an electric utility in this state within its certified territory for the purpose of satisfying the consumer's electricity requirements in keeping with the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code.

... order, after investigation and public hearing, only if it first determines either of the following: (1) There will be effective competition with respect to the service. (2) The customers of the service have reasonably available alternatives. The commission shall initiate a proceeding on or before March 31, 2003, on the question of the desirability, feasibility, and timing of any such competition. (B) In carrying...

...l provide a competitive retail electric service in this state if that service was deemed competitive or otherwise legally classified as competitive prior to the effective date of this section. (B) The standard service offer under section 4928.141 of the Revised Code shall continue to be provided to consumers in this state by electric utilities.

...sion. The commission shall adopt, for each electric distribution utility that provides customers with a standard service offer in compliance with sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code, a nonbypassable cost recovery mechanism relating to transmission, ancillary, congestion, or any related service required for such standard service offer that includes provisions for the recovery of any cost of such servi...

...vision of a retail electric service or reasonably available alternatives for that service, the commission shall consider factors including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) The number and size of alternative providers of that service; (2) The extent to which the service is available from alternative suppliers in the relevant market; (3) The ability of alternative suppliers to make functionally equi...

...ing date of competitive retail electric service, an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code shall separately price competitive retail electric services, and the prices shall be itemized on the bill of a customer or otherwise disclosed to the customer. Although a competitive retail electric service ...

...n electric distribution utility to set reasonable standards for its security and the security of its customers through financial requirements set in its tariffs. (3) As used in division (B)(2) of this section, an "electric services company" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code, but excludes a power broker or aggregator. (C) Capability standards adopted in rules under division (B) of this...

... the month of December of every fourth year after the initial filing of a document under division (A)(1) of this section. (3) If the address of the person filing a document under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section changes, or if a person's agent or the address of the agent changes, from that listed on the most recently filed of such documents, the person shall file an amended document containing the new info...

...extent practicable, separate listing of each service component to enable a customer to recalculate its bill for accuracy; (3) Identification of the supplier of each service; (4) Statement of where and how payment may be made and provision of a toll-free or local customer assistance and complaint number for the electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator, as well as ...

...ans any customer that receives electric service pursuant to a nonresidential tariff if the customer's demand for electricity does not exceed twenty-five kilowatts within the last twelve months. (2) "Small commercial customer" excludes any customer that does one or both of the following: (a) Manages multiple electric meters and, within the last twelve months, the electricity demand for at least one of the meters i...

... the supplier shall send two notices to each residential and small commercial customer that enters into such a contract. Each notice shall provide all of the following information to the customer: (1) The fixed rate that is expiring under the contract; (2) The expiration date of the contract's fixed rate; (3) The public utilities commission web site that, as a comparison tool, lists rates offered by competitive...

...ection, "customer account information" means a unique electric distribution utility number or other customer identification number used by the utility to identify a customer and the customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that an electric distribution utility processes a customer's change in competitive retail electric supplier by using customer account information...

...(A) A competitive retail electric service supplier may offer alternative billing and payment structures as agreed upon in a service contract with a mercantile customer, without restriction to specific models, provided the supplier complies with applicable laws and regulations. The alternative billing and payment structure may include any of the following: (1) Daily, weekly, or milestone-based payments; (2) Online...

...ng requests under this section through reasonable fees assessed to competitive retail electric service suppliers.

...s of electric utilities; shall apply to each substantial type of transmission or distribution equipment or facility; shall establish uniform interconnection standards to ensure transmission and distribution system safety and reliability and shall otherwise provide for high quality, safe, and reliable electric service; shall include standards for operation, reliability, and safety during periods of emergency and disas...

...The public utilities commission shall consult with electric distribution utilities to review the distribution infrastructure in this state and shall consult with regional transmission organizations and entities that own or control transmission facilities to review the transmission infrastructure in this state.