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...(A) As used in this section and section 4928.102 of the Revised Code: (1) "Small commercial customer" means any customer that receives electric service pursuant to a nonresidential tariff if the customer's demand for electricity does not exceed twenty-five kilowatts within the last twelve months. (2) "Small commercial customer" excludes any customer that does one or both of the following: (a) Manages multiple e...

...(A) If a competitive retail electric service supplier offers a residential or small commercial customer a contract for a fixed introductory rate that converts to a variable rate upon the expiration of the fixed rate, the supplier shall send two notices to each residential and small commercial customer that enters into such a contract. Each notice shall provide all of the following information to the customer: (1) T...

...(A) As used in this section, "customer account information" means a unique electric distribution utility number or other customer identification number used by the utility to identify a customer and the customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that an electric distribution utility processes a customer's change in competitive retail electric supplier by using custome...

...(A) A competitive retail electric service supplier may offer alternative billing and payment structures as agreed upon in a service contract with a mercantile customer, without restriction to specific models, provided the supplier complies with applicable laws and regulations. The alternative billing and payment structure may include any of the following: (1) Daily, weekly, or milestone-based payments; (2) Online...

...(A) For the protection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code that specify minimum service quality, 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 prescript...

...The public utilities commission shall consult with electric distribution utilities to review the distribution infrastructure in this state and shall consult with regional 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 i...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no entity shall own or control transmission facilities as defined under federal law and located in this state on or after the 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) ...

...Through a periodic filing with the public utilities commission in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code, each 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 adequ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the failure of a supplier to provide retail electric generation service to customers within the certified territory of an electric distribution utility shall result in the supplier's customers, after reasonable notice, defaulting to the utility's standard service offer under sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code until the customer chooses an alterna...

...(A)(1) An electric distribution utility shall provide consumers, on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis within its certified territory, a standard service offer of all competitive retail electric services necessary to maintain essential electric service to consumers, including a firm supply of electric generation service. To that end, the electric distribution utility shall apply to the public utilities commissi...

...(A) For the purpose of complying with section 4928.141 of the Revised Code and subject to division (D) of this section and, as applicable, subject to the requirements of division (A) of section 4928.141 of the Revised Code, an electric distribution utility shall establish a standard service offer price for retail electric generation service that is delivered to the utility under a market-rate offer. (1) The market...

...The public utilities commission by order may authorize any just and reasonable phase-in of any electric distribution utility price established under sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code, and inclusive of carrying charges, as 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 regu...

...During a proceeding under sections 4928.141 to 4928.144 of the Revised Code and upon submission of 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 p...

...Nothing in sections 4928.141 to 4928.145 of the 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.

...No electric distribution 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.

...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...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall supply noncompetitive retail electric distribution service in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service except pursuant to a schedule for that service that is consistent with the state policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code and filed with the public util...

...The public utilities commission shall adopt and enforce rules prescribing a uniform, statewide policy regarding electric transmission and 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...

...(A)(1) The public utilities commission 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, regarding the provision by an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4928.08 o...

...As part of their ongoing consumer education efforts, the public utilities commission and the office of the consumers' counsel shall engage in cooperative agency efforts to educate consumers in this state regarding electric industry restructuring under this chapter.

...(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may adopt an ordinance, or the board of township trustees of a township or the board of county commissioners of a county may adopt a resolution, under which it may aggregate in accordance with this section the retail electrical loads located, respectively, within the municipal corporation, township, or unincorporated area of the county and, for that purpose, ma...

...(A) A customer that desires to remove itself from the pool of customers eligible to participate in governmental aggregation under section 4928.20 of the Revised Code may register with the public utilities commission to appear on the "do not aggregate" list. (B) The commission, by rule, shall establish a "do not aggregate" list. The commission shall maintain the "do not aggregate" list and make it publicly available ...

...As used in sections 4928.23 to 4928.2318 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ancillary agreement" means any bond insurance 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 mar...

...(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 ...