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... service supplier under a service agreement that explicitly authorizes an expedited return to an electric distribution utility's standard service offer, voluntarily entered into by a mercantile customer, a utility shall complete the request within three business days. (B) The electric distribution utility shall not be held liable for any disputes arising from the expedited return to the utility's standard service o...

...uality, safety, and reliability requirements for noncompetitive retail electric services supplied by an electric utility in this state, to the extent such authority is not preempted by federal law. The rules shall include prescriptive standards for inspection, maintenance, repair, and replacement of the transmission and distribution systems of electric utilities; shall apply to each substantial type of transmission o...

...egional transmission organizations and entities that own or control transmission facilities to review the transmission infrastructure in this state.

...A) In the event of an interruption of electric service during a period of emergency or disaster, an electric distribution utility's service restoration plan shall give priority to hospitals that are customers of the electric distribution utility. (B) If requested by a hospital that is its customer, an electric distribution utility shall confer at least biennially with that hospital regarding power quality is...

...he starting date of competitive retail electric service unless that entity is a member of, and transfers control of those facilities to, one or more qualifying transmission entities, as described in division (B) of this section, that are operational. (B) An entity that owns or controls transmission facilities located in this state complies with division (A) of this section if each transmission entity of which it is ...

...ach electric utility that owns nuclear generation facilities located in this state shall demonstrate compliance with decommissioning requirements of the nuclear regulatory commission and public utilities commission and shall demonstrate adequate financing mechanisms to fund facility decommissioning.

...to the utility's standard 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 it...

...lectric security plan that was approved under section 4928.143 of the Revised Code as that section existed prior to the amendments to this section by this act shall continue for the purpose of the utility's compliance with division (A)(1) of this section until a standard service offer is authorized to be effective under section 4928.142 of the Revised Code. Each security plan approved before the effective date of the...

...ervice that is delivered to the utility under a market-rate offer. (1) The market-rate offer shall be determined through a competitive bidding process that provides for all of the following: (a) Open, fair, and transparent competitive solicitation; (b) Clear product definition; (c) Standardized bid evaluation criteria; (d) Oversight by an independent third party that shall design the solicitation, administ...

...s the commission considers necessary to ensure price stability for consumers. If the commission's order includes such a phase-in, the order also shall provide for the creation of regulatory assets pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles, by authorizing the deferral of incurred costs equal to the amount not collected, plus carrying charges on that amount. Further, the order shall authorize the collection ...

...questing 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 determined appropriate by the public utilities commission.

...ail electric service to electric load centers within the certified territory of another such utility.

...stribution utility may use any electric energy storage system to participate in the wholesale market, if the utility purchased or acquired that system for distribution service.

...e 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 cost of debt, for the resolution of any outstanding under-collection or over-collection of funds under such riders. Th...

...ed with the public utilities commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code. The schedule shall provide that electric distribution service under the schedule is available to all consumers within the utility's certified territory and to any supplier to those consumers on a nondiscriminatory and comparable basis. Distribution service rates and charges under the schedule shall be established in accordance with Cha...

... 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 ...

...ompany, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code of any service for which it is subject to certification. (2) The commission also 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 de...

...ice 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 separa...

...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.

...e policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity or credit support arrangement, or other similar agreement or arrangement entered into in connection with the issuance of phase-in-recovery bonds that is designed to promote the credit quality and marketability of the bonds or to mitigate the risk of an increase in interest rates. (B) "Assignee" means any perso...

... charges, in accordance with the adjustment mechanism approved by the commission under section 4928.232 of the Revised Code, and consistent with the commission's authority regarding governmental aggregation as provided in division (I) of section 4928.20 of the Revised Code, to recover both of the following: (a) Uncollected phase-in costs; (b) Financing costs. (3) The creation of phase-in-recovery property under...

...of the Revised Code, but only to the extent that chapter is not inconsistent with this section or section 4928.233 of the Revised Code. Any party that participated in the proceeding in which phase-in costs were approved under section 4909.18 or sections 4928.141 to 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 exis...