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...lication filed under this section, the public utilities commission may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism or device in a natural gas company's rate schedules that allows a natural gas company's rates or charges for a regulated service or goods to fluctuate automatically in accordance with changes in a specified cost or costs. (B) Upon an application filed under section 4909.18 or 4929.05 of the Revised ...

...tion, in addition to any allowance for funds used during construction. (G)(1) Any accrual for deferral or recovery under division (D) of this section shall be calculated in accordance with the system of accounts established by the commission under section 4905.13 of the Revised Code. (2) The natural gas company shall calculate the post-in-service carrying costs, described in division (D)(1) of this section, f...

...ification to the existing powers of the public utilities commission under Title XLIX of the Revised Code.

....04 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code is a public utility for the purpose of exercising the rights of a public utility in support of its regulated services and goods. Nothing in this chapter affects the right of appropriation of a natural gas company under law in support of its regulated services and goods.

... not subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4929.03 to 4929.05 of the Revised Code.

...ating good cause, may be filed with the public utilities commission. The commission shall rule on the application within ten days after the date of its filing. (C) A person subpoenaed under this section shall comply with the terms of the subpoena, unless, as provided under division (B) of this section, the parties agree to modify the terms of the subpoena or unless the commission has modified or quashed the subpoena...

...As used in sections 4929.16 to 4929.167 of the Revised Code: (A) "Infrastructure development" means constructing, upgrading, extending, or any other investment in, or associated with, transmission or distribution facilities that, except as provided for in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, a natural gas company owns and operates. (B)(1) "Infrastructure development costs" means costs associated with an investment...

...ompany may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an infrastructure development rider to recover prudently incurred infrastructure development costs of one or more economic development projects approved under section 4929.163 of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall approve a maximum of one infrastructure development rider per company. (C) The commission shall not accept an ...

...tructure development costs that are not funded through a disbursement from the all Ohio future fund under section 126.62 of the Revised Code or through another rider or rate mechanism approved under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code. (2) A natural gas company that is prohibited under division (D)(1) of this section from recovering infrastructure development costs for a particular site or project in an infrastruct...

...ompany may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an economic development project for which the company will incur infrastructure development costs. (B) The company shall file the application for project approval prior to beginning the project. (C) The application for project approval, to the extent applicable, shall contain a description of each of the following: (1) The econo...

...de shall file an annual report with the public utilities commission. The report shall do both of the following: (1) Detail the infrastructure development costs related to the applicable economic development project or projects; (2) Set forth the rider rate for the twelve months following the annual report. (B) The commission annually shall submit to the general assembly, in accordance with section 101.68 of the...

...considered used and useful in rendering public utility service for purposes of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code.

...The public utilities commission may, at its discretion, conduct a financial audit of a natural gas company that has established an infrastructure development rider under section 4929.161 of the Revised Code to determine if the infrastructure development costs incurred by the natural gas company and collected pursuant to the rider are in conformance with the commission's orders.

...ilities for distribution service if the public utilities commission determines that treatment is just and reasonable: (a) Any property, equipment, or facilities to enable interconnection with or receipt from any property, equipment, or facilities used to generate, collect, gather, or transport biologically derived methane gas, or to enable the blending or supply of biologically derived methane gas to consumers wit...

...te without first being certified by the public utilities commission regarding its managerial, technical, and financial capability to provide that service and providing reasonable financial assurances sufficient to protect customers and natural gas companies from default. In addition, a retail natural gas supplier may be required to provide a performance bond sufficient to protect customers and natural gas companies f...

...ocess in this state, by filing with the public utilities commission a document designating that agent. (2) Beginning on the effective date of initial rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, no person shall continue to operate as such retail natural gas supplier unless that person continues to consent to such jurisdiction and service of process in this state and continues to de...

...tection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code specifying the necessary minimum service requirements of a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code regarding the marketing, solicitation, sale, or provision, directly or through its billing and collection agent...

...of the contract's fixed rate; (3) The public utilities commission web site that, as a comparison tool, lists rates offered by competitive retail natural gas service suppliers. (B) The second notice shall include all the information required under division (A) of this section and shall also identify the initial rate to be charged upon the contract's conversion to a variable rate. (C) The notices shall be sent b...

...he customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that a natural gas company processes a customer's change in competitive retail natural gas supplier by using customer account information. A customer who consents to a change of supplier shall not be required to provide customer account information to the supplier if the customer provides a valid form of government-issued ...

...0 of the Revised Code shall provide the public utilities commission with such information, regarding a competitive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification, as the commission considers necessary to carry out sections 4929.20 to 4929.24 of the Revised Code. The commission shall take such measures as it considers necessary to protect the confidentiality of any such information. (B) The commi...

...(A)(1) The public utilities commission has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon complaint of any person or complaint or initiative of the commission regarding the provision by a retail natural gas supplier subject to certification under section 4929.20 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...

...(A) Upon the filing of an application by a natural gas company in such form and pursuant to such procedures as shall be prescribed by rule of the commission under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code for the purpose of this division, the commission shall determine the total allowable amount of capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto, of the company to be received as revenues under this division. Suc...

...ority or board shall hold at least two public hearings on the plan. Before the first hearing, the legislative authority or board shall publish notice of the hearings once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall summarize the plan and state the date, time, and location of each hearing. (D) No ...

...hority or board shall hold at least two public hearings on the plan. Before the first hearing, the legislative authority or board shall publish notice of the hearings once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall summarize the plan and state the date, time, and location of each hearing. (C)(1)...

... reached, either party may petition the public utilities commission to resolve the issues.