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....31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission, by order under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code, shall determine the total allowable amount of the transition costs of the utility to be received as transition revenues under those sections. Such amount shall be the just and reasonable transition costs of the utility, which costs the commission finds meet all of the following criteria: (A) The c...

....31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission, by order under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code, shall establish the transition charge for each customer class of the electric utility and, to the extent possible, each rate schedule within each such customer class, with all such transition charges being collected as provided in division (A)(1)(b) of section 4928.37 of the Revised Code during a m...

...(A) Each state agency that provides employment assistance and job training programs, including the department of job and family services, shall provide concentrated attention through those programs to assisting employees whose employment is affected by electric industry restructuring under this chapter. (B) To the extent not prohibited by federal law or any law of this state and except as otherwise provided in a la...

...There is hereby established in the state treasury the electric partnership plan fund, into which shall be deposited all revenues remitted to the director of job and family services under this section, for the exclusive purposes of providing funding for the low-income customer assistance programs and paying the administrative costs of the low-income customer assistance programs and the consumer education program. Inte...

...tes as such rates are determined by the public utilities commission pursuant to this chapter. The percentage of income payment plan rider shall recover the following: (1) The prudently incurred costs of providing the percentage of income payment plan program for each electric distribution utility; (2) The total of the electric distribution utilities' allocated shares, as determined by the public utilities commiss...

...(A) Beginning July 1, 2026, the director of job and family services shall administer the low-income customer assistance programs, except for the percentage of income payment plan rider established under section 4928.52 of the Revised Code. The director shall consolidate the administration of and redesign and coordinate the operations of the low-income customer assistance programs within the department to provide, to ...

...The public utilities commission shall aggregate percentage of income payment plan program customers for the purpose of establishing a competitive procurement process for the supply of competitive retail electric service for those customers. The process shall be an auction. Only bidders certified under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code may participate in the auction.

...The competitive procurement process established under section 4928.54 of the Revised Code shall be conducted until a winning bid is or winning bids are selected.

...The winning bid or bids selected through the competitive procurement process established under section 4928.54 of the Revised Code shall meet all of the following requirements: (A) Be designed to provide reliable competitive retail electric service to percentage of income payment plan program customers; (B) Reduce the cost of the percentage of income payment plan program relative to the otherwise applicable stand...

...The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to implement sections 4928.54, 4928.541, and 4928.542 of the Revised Code. The rules shall ensure a fair and unbiased auction process and the performance of the winning bidder or bidders.

..., and 4928.542 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall design, manage, and supervise the competitive procurement process required by section 4928.54 of the Revised Code. To the extent reasonably possible, and to minimize costs, the process may be designed based on any existing competitive procurement process for the establishment of the default generation supply price for electric distribution util...

...The public utilities commission shall administer the percentage of income payment plan rider established under section 4928.52 of the Revised Code, including by performing periodic audits of each electric distribution utility's percentage of income payment plan rider. The commission shall adopt rules for the administration of the percentage of income payment plan rider and shall cooperate with, and provide such ass...

...The director of job and family services shall establish an energy efficiency and weatherization program targeted, to the extent practicable, to high-cost, high-volume use structures occupied by customers eligible for the percentage of income payment plan program, with the goal of reducing the energy bills of the occupants. Acceptance of energy efficiency and weatherization services provided by the program shall be a ...

...The director of job and family services may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing an education program for consumers eligible to participate in the low-income customer assistance programs. The education program shall provide information to consumers regarding energy efficiency and energy conservation.

...(A) There is hereby created the public benefits advisory board, which has the purpose of ensuring that energy services be provided to low-income consumers in this state in an affordable manner consistent with the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code. The advisory board shall consist of twenty-one members as follows: the director of job and family services, the chairperson of the public utilities co...

...(A) There is hereby established in the state treasury the advanced energy fund, into which shall be deposited all advanced energy revenues remitted to the director of development under division (B) of this section, for the exclusive purposes of funding the advanced energy program created under section 4928.62 of the Revised Code and paying the program's administrative costs. Interest on the fund shall be credited to ...

... do all of the following to further the public interest in advanced energy projects and economic development: (1) Award grants, contracts, loans, loan participation agreements, linked deposits, and energy production incentives; (2) Acquire in the name of the director any property of any kind or character in accordance with this section, by purchase, purchase at foreclosure, or exchange, on such terms and in such ...

...(A) Any Edison technology center in this state is eligible to apply for and receive assistance pursuant to section 4928.62 of the Revised Code for the purposes of creating an advanced energy manufacturing center in this state that will provide for the exchange of information and expertise regarding advanced energy, assisting with the design of advanced energy projects, developing workforce training programs fo...

...The director of development has the powers and duties provided in sections 4928.61 and 4928.62 of the Revised Code, in order to promote the welfare of the people of this state; stabilize the economy; assist in the improvement and development within this state of not-for-profit entity, industrial, commercial, distribution, residential, and research buildings and activities required for the people of this state; improv...

...on and as it considers appropriate, the public utilities commission may classify any new technology as such a qualifying renewable energy resource. (B)(1) By the end of 2026, an electric distribution utility shall have provided from qualifying renewable energy resources, including, at its discretion, qualifying renewable energy resources obtained pursuant to an electricity supply contract, a portion of the electri...

...(A) If an electric distribution utility has executed a contract before April 1, 2014, to procure renewable energy resources and there are ongoing costs associated with that contract that are being recovered from customers through a bypassable charge as of September 12, 2014, that cost recovery shall, regardless of the amendments to section 4928.64 of the Revised Code by H.B. 6 of the 133rd general assembly, continue ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 4928.644 of the Revised Code, the baseline for an electric distribution utility's or an electric services company's compliance with the qualified renewable energy resource requirements of section 4928.64 of the Revised Code shall be the average of total kilowatt hours sold by the utility or company in the preceding three calendar years to the fo...

...(A) The public utilities commission may reduce either baseline described in section 4928.643 of the Revised Code to adjust for new economic growth in the electric distribution utility's certified territory or in the electric services company's service area in this state. (B) To facilitate the competitiveness of mercantile customers located in this state that are registered as self-assessing purchasers under divisio...

...or metered amounts of gas. (B)(1) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules specifying that one unit of credit shall equal one megawatt hour of electricity derived from renewable energy resources, except that, for a generating facility of seventy-five megawatts or greater that is situated within this state and has committed by December 31, 2009, to modify or retrofit its generating unit or units to enable t...

...(A) Not later than January 1, 2015, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules governing the disclosure of the costs to customers of the renewable energy resource, energy efficiency savings, and peak demand reduction requirements of sections 4928.64 and 4928.66 of the Revised Code. The rules shall include both of the following requirements: (1) That every electric distribution utility list, on all cust...