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... an appropriate discovery request, an electric distribution utility shall make available to the requesting party every contract or agreement that is between the utility or any of its affiliates and a party to the proceeding, consumer, electric services company, or political subdivision and that is relevant to the proceeding, subject to such protection for proprietary or confidential information as is determine...

...Revised Code precludes or prohibits an electric distribution utility providing competitive retail electric service to electric load centers within the certified territory of another such utility.

...storage system to participate in the wholesale market, if the utility purchased or acquired that system for distribution service.

...If an electric distribution utility has an existing electric security plan under which the commission had authorized the creation or continuation of riders, then, to the extent those riders will cease to exist after termination of the electric security plan, the electric distribution utility is authorized to create necessary regulatory assets or liabilities, along with carrying costs at the utility's weighted average...

...he new facilities, in accordance with rules, policy, precedents, or orders of the commission. (B) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code and except as preempted by federal law, no electric utility shall supply the transmission service or ancillary service component of noncompetitive retail electric service in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail elec...

... distribution line extensions and requisite substations and related facilities that are requested by nonresidential customers of electric utilities, so that, on and after the effective date of the initial rules so adopted, all such utilities apply the same policies and charges to those customers. Initial rules shall be adopted not later than six months after the effective date of this section. The rules shall ...

...natories shall be the exclusive forum unless all parties to the contract agree in writing to an amended process. The company shall notify the commission for informational purposes of all matters for which a contract remedy is invoked to resolve a dispute. (4) The commission, by rule adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code, shall adopt alternative dispute resolution procedures for comp...

...e other than retail electric service, unless the utility implements and operates under a corporate separation plan that is approved by the public utilities commission under this section, is consistent with the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code, and achieves all of the following: (1) The plan provides, at minimum, for the provision of the nonelectric product or service through a fully separate...

...ion has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon complaint of any person or upon complaint or initiative of the commission on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, to determine whether an electric utility or its affiliate has violated any provision of section 4928.17 of the Revised Code or an order issued or rule adopted under that section. For this purpose, the ...

...cate consumers in this state regarding electric industry restructuring under this chapter.

...ivision. (C) Upon the applicable requisite authority under divisions (A) and (B) of this section, the legislative authority or board shall develop a plan of operation and governance for the aggregation program so authorized. Before adopting a plan under this division, the legislative authority or board shall hold at least two public hearings on the plan. Before the first hearing, the legislative authority or board ...

...licly available on the commission's web site. (C) If a customer is enrolled in a governmental aggregation program at the time the customer first appears on the "do not aggregate" list, the governmental aggregator shall remove the customer from the program at the next two-year opt out opportunity that is available to the customer under division (D) of section 4928.20 of the Revised Code.

...red pursuant to federal or state law, rules, or regulations and for which the commission approves or approved recovery in accordance with section 4909.18, 4928.141, 4928.142, or 4928.144 of the Revised Code, section 4928.14 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to July 31, 2008, or section 4928.143 of the Revised Code as it existed prior to the effective date of the amendments to this section by this act. (K) "P...

...(A) An electric distribution utility may apply to the public utilities commission for a financing order that authorizes the following: (1) The issuance of phase-in-recovery bonds, in one or more series, to recover uncollected phase-in costs; (2) The imposition, charging, and collection of phase-in- recovery charges, in accordance with the adjustment mechanism approved by the commission under section 4928.232 of ...

...er under division (C) of this section unless the commission determines that the financing order is consistent with section 4928.02 of the Revised Code. (2) Except as provided in division (D)(1) of this section, the commission shall issue a financing order under division (C) of this section if, at the time the financing order is issued, the commission finds that the issuance of the phase-in-recovery bonds and the ph...

...ing, any party to the proceeding may file a notice of appeal with the supreme court. Any such notice of appeal shall be served as provided for in section 4903.13 of the Revised Code. Because delay in the determination of the appeal will delay the issuance of phase-in-recovery bonds, thereby diminishing savings to customers that might be achieved if the bonds were issued under a final financing order, the supre...

...mption. That property shall exist regardless of whether the phase-in-recovery charges have been billed, have accrued, or have been collected, and notwithstanding any requirement that the value or amount of the property is dependent on the future provision of service to customers by the electric distribution utility. (D) All such phase-in-recovery property shall continue to exist until the phase-in-recovery bond...

... reorganization, or insolvency of the electric distribution utility or any affiliate of the electric distribution utility or the commencement of any judicial or nonjudicial proceeding on the final financing order. (B) A final financing order is irrevocable and the public utilities commission may not reduce, impair, postpone, or terminate the phase-in-recovery charges authorized in the final financing order or ...

...At the request of the electric distribution utility subject to a final financing order, the public utilities commission may commence a proceeding and issue a subsequent financing order that provides for retiring and refunding phase-in-recovery bonds issued under the final financing order if the commission finds that the subsequent financing order satisfies all of the requirements of section 4928.232 of the Revi...

... 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 authorized under the final financing order to be the costs of the electric distribution utility. ...

...(A) An electric distribution utility subject to a final financing order shall file with the public utilities commission, at least annually, or more frequently as provided in the final financing order, a schedule applying the approved adjustment mechanism to the phase-in-recovery charges authorized under the final financing order, based on estimates of consumption for each customer class and other mathematical f...

...A) As used in this section, "nonbypassable," with respect to phase-in-recovery charges, means that such charges cannot be avoided by any customer or other person 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 ...

...distribution utility shall be held harmless for the electric distribution utility's failure to remit any required payment of phase-in-recovery revenues, and such failure shall in no way affect the phase-in-recovery property or the rights to impose, collect, and adjust the phase-in-recovery charges under sections 4928.23 to 4928.2318 of the Revised Code. (B) Phase-in-recovery property under a final financing ord...

...Any successor to an electric distribution utility subject to a final financing order shall be bound by the requirements of sections 4928.23 to 4928.2317 of the Revised Code. The successor shall perform and satisfy all obligations of the electric distribution utility under the final financing order, in the same manner and to the same extent as the electric distribution utility, including the obligation to collec...

...phase-in-recovery revenues that are deposited in any cash or deposit account of the electric distribution utility in which phase-in-recovery revenues have been commingled with other funds. Any other security interest that may apply to those funds shall be terminated when the funds are transferred to a segregated account for an assignee or a financing party. (3) No application of the adjustment mechanism as desc...