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...ited to doing, any of the following: (1) Terminate the rate, term, or condition and prescribe a just and reasonable rate, term, or condition; (2) Require entry into a pole attachment agreement on just and reasonable rates, terms, and conditions; (3) Require access to poles as provided under sections 4926.06 to 4926.36 of the Revised Code; (4) Substitute in the pole attachment agreement the just and reasonable...

...A) It is the policy of this state to: (1) Ensure the adequacy and reliability of basic local exchange service consistent with sections 4927.07, 4927.10, and 4927.11 of the Revised Code, and the adequacy and reliability of voice service throughout the state; (2) Provide incentives for competing providers of telecommunications service to provide advanced, high-quality telecommunications service to citizens throughout...

...ot commercially available on September 13, 2010, and that employs technology that became available for commercial use only after September 13, 2010, unless the commission, upon a finding that the exercise of the commission's authority is necessary for the protection, welfare, and safety of the public, adopts rules specifying the necessary regulation. A consumer purchase of a service that is not commercially av...

...or practice by a telephone company: (1) Any communication by the company, including, but not limited to, a solicitation, offer, or contract term or condition, shall be truthful, clear, conspicuous, and accurate in disclosing any material terms and conditions of service and any material exclusions or limitations. The public utilities commission may prescribe, by rule, a commission review process to determine w...

...the notice requirements of section 4927.10 of the Revised Code, a telephone company may withdraw any telecommunications service if it gives at least thirty days' prior notice to the public utilities commission and to its affected customers. (B) Except as provided under the notice requirements of section 4927.10 of the Revised Code, a telephone company may abandon entirely telecommunications service in this state if ...

...expressly authorized in this chapter: (1) Basic local exchange service shall be installed within five business days of the receipt by a telephone company of a completed application for that service. (2) A basic local exchange service outage or service-affecting problem shall be repaired within seventy-two hours after it is reported to the telephone company, and the telephone company shall make reasonable effor...

...t 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 out division (A) of this section, the commission may prescribe...

...ngly or jointly owns or operates. (B)(1) No electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator shall provide a competitive retail electric service to a consumer in this state on and after the starting date of competitive retail electric service without first being certified by the public utilities commission regarding its managerial, technical, and financial capability to ...

...s used in this section and section 4928.102 of the Revised Code: (1) "Small commercial customer" means 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 electr...

...re may include any of the following: (1) Daily, weekly, or milestone-based payments; (2) Online-only billing and payment requirements; (3) Prepayment-based service structures. (B) The public utilities commission shall not prohibit a competitive retail electric service supplier from requiring electronic payment methods as a condition of service under a non-traditional billing agreement.

...ndard service offer under sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code until the customer chooses an alternative supplier. (B) A supplier is deemed under this section to have failed to provide retail electric generation service if the commission finds, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, that any of the following conditions are met: (1) The supplier has defaulted on its contracts with cus...

...g, may not do any of the following: (1) Consider phase-in-recovery bonds issued under a final financing order to be the debt of the electric distribution utility subject to the final financing order; (2) Consider the phase-in-recovery charges imposed, charged, or collected under the final financing order to be revenue of the electric distribution utility; (3) Consider the phase-in costs or financing costs au...

...on obligated to pay the charges. (B)(1) As long as phase-in-recovery bonds issued under a final financing order are outstanding and the related phase-in costs and financing costs have not been recovered in full, the phase-in-recovery charges authorized under the final financing order shall be nonbypassable. Subject to the methodology approved in the final financing order pursuant to division (E)(4) of sectio...

...s shall be made not later than November 1, 1999. (B) Initial terms of six of the appointed members shall end on June 30, 2003, and initial terms of the remaining seven appointed members shall end on June 30, 2004. Thereafter, terms of appointed members shall be for three years, with each term ending on the same day of the same month as the term it succeeds. Each member shall hold office from the date of the member'...

... shall include all of the following: (1) Revenues from payments, repayments, and collections under the advanced energy program and from program income; (2) Revenues remitted to the director after collection by a municipal electric utility or electric cooperative in this state upon the utility's or cooperative's decision to participate in the advanced energy fund; (3) Revenues from renewable energy compliance pa...

...ers under division (C) of section 5727.81 of the Revised Code, the commission shall reduce both baselines described in section 4928.643 of the Revised Code to exclude the load and usage of those self-assessing purchasers. Upon the effective date of this reduction, both of the following shall apply: (1) Any electric distribution utility or electric services company serving such a self-assessing purchaser shall be rel...

...Beginning January 1, 2017, a customer of an electric distribution utility may opt out of the opportunity and ability to obtain direct benefits from the utility's portfolio plan. Such an opt out shall extend to all of the customer's accounts, irrespective of the size or service voltage level that are associated with the activities performed by the customer and that are located on or adjacent to the customer's pr...

...lection to opt out under section 4928.6611 of the Revised Code if both of the following apply: (1) The customer has previously opted out for a period of at least three consecutive calendar years. (2) The customer gives twelve months' advance notice of its intent to opt in to the public utilities commission and the electric distribution utility from which it receives service. (B) A customer that opts in under ...

...ilities commission under section 4905.31 of the Revised Code, an electric distribution utility shall not charge any person that is a customer of a municipal electric utility that is in existence on or before January 1, 2008, any surcharge, service termination charge, exit fee, or transition charge.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Mercantile customer member" means a mercantile customer connected to a mercantile customer self-power system. (2) "Mercantile customer self-power system" means one or more electric generation facilities, electric storage facilities, or both, along with any associated facilities, that meet all of the following: (a) Produce electricity primarily for the consumption of a mercantil...

...at includes either of the following: (1) A fixed monthly service fee; (2) An energy charge on a kilowatt-hour basis. (B) The minimum monthly charge shall not exceed the fixed monthly service fee and the customer shall not be subject to any demand-based riders. (C) The electric distribution utility shall be eligible to recover any revenue loss associated with customer migration to this new rate schedule.

...that includes both of the following: (1) For major transmission lines and substations, the additional power load the lines and substations can take at the time that the map is created, accounting for all signed electric service agreements; (2) The amount of localized generation that can be hosted on each transmission line. (B) If a heat map created under this section is not critical electric infrastructure info...

...is state to, throughout this state: (1) Promote the availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, and reasonably priced natural gas services and goods; (2) Promote the availability of unbundled and comparable natural gas services and goods that provide wholesale and retail consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their respective needs; (3) Promote dive...

...ling an application under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the application is for an increase in rates. After investigation, which may include a hearing at the discretion of the public utilities commission, the commission shall authorize the applicant to implement an alternative rate plan if the natural gas company has made a showing and the commission finds that all of the following ...

...owing to protect existing customers: (1) Protects the company's customers that are not served under the alternative rate plan pursuant to section 4929.052 of the Revised Code from paying direct or indirect costs, including any stranded costs, associated with the large load customer's share of infrastructure investments made under any commercial agreements entered into under that plan; (2) Provides any commercial ...