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...lassification. (b) The customer is a commercial or industrial customer to which both of the following apply: (i) The customer receives electricity through a meter of an end user or through more than one meter at a single location in a quantity that exceeds forty-five million kilowatt hours of electricity for the preceding calendar year. (ii) The customer has made a written request for registration as a self-...

...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...

...Any customer electing to opt out under section 4928.6611 of the Revised Code shall do so by providing a verified written notice of intent to opt out to the electric distribution utility from which it receives service and submitting a complete copy of the opt-out notice to the secretary of the public utilities commission. The notice provided to the utility shall include all of the following: (A) A statement i...

...Upon a customer's election to opt out under section 4928.6611 of the Revised Code and commencing on the effective date of the election to opt out, no account properly identified in the customer's verified notice under division (C) of section 4928.6612 of the Revised Code shall be subject to any cost recovery mechanism under section 4928.66 of the Revised Code or eligible to participate in, or directly benefit f...

...(A) A customer subsequently may opt in to an electric distribution utility's portfolio plan after a previous election 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 commi...

...Any customer electing to opt in under section 4928.6614 of the Revised Code shall do so by providing a written notice of intent to opt in to the electric distribution utility from which it receives service and submitting a complete copy of the opt-in notice to the secretary of the public utilities commission. The notice shall include all of the following: (A) A statement indicating that the customer has elect...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, an electric utility shall develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net metering. That contract or tariff shall be identical in rate structure, all retail rate components, and any monthly charges to the contract or tariff to which the same customer would be assigned if that customer were not a customer-generator. (2) An electric u...

...To the extent permitted by federal law, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules establishing greenhouse gas emission reporting requirements, including participation in the climate registry, and carbon dioxide control planning requirements for each electric generating facility that is located in this state, is owned or operated by a public utility that is subject to the commis...

...Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 4928. of the Revised Code and except as otherwise provided in an agreement filed with and approved by the public utilities 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 terminatio...

...(A) The public utilities commission may periodically review any green pricing program offered in this state as part of competitive retail electric service. At the conclusion of a review, the commission may make recommendations to improve or expand the program subject of the review. (B) The commission shall adopt rules necessary to carry out purposes of this section.

...The public utilities commission shall study whether increased energy efficiency, demand response, generation, and transmission provide increased opportunities for customer choice. The commission shall include in the study an evaluation of emerging technologies. The commission shall commence the study not later than eighteen months after the effective date of this section. At the conclusion of the study, the co...

...The public utilities commission may, in cooperation with the department of transportation, work with other states to develop a multi-state study on the development of compressed natural gas infrastructures for transportation.

...(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...

...The director of job and family services shall, in each fiscal year, submit a completed waiver request in accordance with section 96.83 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations to the United States department of health and human services and any other applicable federal agencies for the state to expend twenty-five per cent of federal low-income home energy assistance programs funds from the home energy assistanc...

...(A) Each electric distribution utility shall file with the public utilities commission a rate schedule applicable to county fairs and agricultural societies that 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 r...

...(A) Not later than May 31, 2026, every electric distribution utility in the state shall develop and publicly share distribution system hosting capacity maps. The utility shall ensure that the maps are available on the utility's web site and shall be updated at least once per quarter. (B) The maps described in division (A) of this section shall include, at a minimum: (1) Total available distribution hosting capaci...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, each public utility, as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, that owns or controls transmission facilities located in this state and is not a regional transmission organization shall create a heat map that includes both of the following: (1) For major transmission lines and substations, the additional power load the lines and substations can take at...

...l gas, including industrial consumers, commercial consumers, and residential consumers, but not including natural gas companies. (F) "Distribution service" means the delivery of natural gas to a consumer at the consumer's facilities, by and through the instrumentalities and facilities of a natural gas company, regardless of the party having title to the natural gas. (G) "Natural gas company" means a natural ga...

...(A) It is the policy of this 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 respectiv...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 4929.04 of the Revised Code, only the commodity sales services, distribution services, and ancillary services of a natural gas company are subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission. Chapter 4905. with the exception of section 4905.10, Chapter 4909., Chapter 4935. with the exception of sections 4935.01 and 4935.03, and sections 4933.08, 4933.09, 4933.11, 493...

...(A) The public utilities commission, upon the application of a natural gas company, after notice, after affording the public a period for comment, and in the case of a natural gas company with fifteen thousand or more customers after a hearing and in the case of a natural gas company with fewer than fifteen thousand customers after a hearing if the commission considers a hearing necessary, shall exempt, by order, any...

...(A) As used in this section, "regulatory exemption" means an exemption from all provisions of Chapter 4905. of the Revised Code with the exception of sections 4905.10, 4905.35, and 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code, Chapters 4909., 4933., and 4935. of the Revised Code, with the exception of section 4935.03 of the Revised Code, and from any rule or order issued under the exempted provisions of those chapter...

...A natural gas company shall notify the public utilities commission in writing before converting the use of any gathering facilities described in division (B)(2) of section 4929.041 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A natural gas company may request approval of an alternative rate plan by filing 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...

...(A) An alternative rate plan filed by a natural gas company under section 4929.05 of the Revised Code and proposing to initiate or continue a revenue decoupling mechanism shall be considered an application not for an increase in rates if the rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals are based upon the billing determinants and revenue requirement authorized by the public utilities commissio...