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...(A) The public utilities commission, in exercising the commission's powers and carrying out the commission's duties regarding regulation and ratemaking, may not do any of the following: (1) Consider phase-in-recovery bonds issued under a final 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, ...

...(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...

... utility purchases electric generation service from a competitive retail electric service provider, the electric distribution utility shall collect the phase-in-recovery charges directly from that customer. (2) If a customer of the electric distribution utility subsequently receives retail electric distribution service from another electric distribution utility operating in the same service area, including by ...

...ure to provide past, present, or future services, or in connection with the bankruptcy, reorganization, or other insolvency proceeding of the electric distribution utility, any affiliate, or any other entity.

...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...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the creation, perfection, and enforcement of any security interest in phase-in-recovery property under a final financing order to secure the repayment of the principal of and interest on phase-in-recovery bonds, amounts payable under any ancillary agreement, and other financing costs are governed by this section and not Chapters 1301. to 1309. of the Revis...

...(A) Any sale, assignment, or transfer of phase-in-recovery property under a final financing order shall be an absolute transfer and true sale of, and not a pledge of or secured transaction relating to, the seller's right, title, and interest in, to, and under the property, if the documents governing the transaction expressly state that the transaction is a sale or other absolute transfer. A transfer of an inter...

...(A) The transfer and ownership of phase-in-recovery property and the imposition, charging, collection, and receipt of phase-in-recovery revenues under sections 4928.231 to 4928.2317 of the Revised Code are exempt from all taxes and similar charges imposed by the state or any county, municipal corporation, school district, local authority, or other subdivision. (B) Phase-in-recovery bonds issued under a final ...

...(A) The state pledges to and agrees with the bondholders, any assignee, and any financing parties under a final financing order that the state will not take or permit any action that impairs the value of phase-in-recovery property under the final financing order or revises the phase-in costs for which recovery is authorized under the final financing order or, except as allowed under section 4928.238 of the Revi...

...(A) The law governing the validity, enforceability, attachment, perfection, priority, and exercise of remedies with respect to the transfer of phase-in-recovery property under a final financing order, or creation of a security interest in any such property, phase-in-recovery charges, or final financing order shall be the laws of this state as set forth in sections 4928.23 to 4928.2318 of the Revised Code. (B)...

...If any provision of sections 4928.23 to 4928.2318 of the Revised Code is held to be invalid or is superseded, replaced, repealed, or expires for any reason, that occurrence shall not affect any action allowed under those sections that is taken prior to that occurrence by the public utilities commission, an electric distribution utility, an assignee, a collection agent, a financing party, a bondholder, or a par...

...n utility or person providing electric service by virtue of engaging in the transactions described in sections 4928.23 to 4928.2313 of the Revised Code.

...alf of the interests of retail electric service consumers in this state. The attorney general shall represent the advocate before the federal energy regulatory commission and other federal agencies. Among other duties assigned to the advocate by the commission, the advocate shall examine the value of the participation of this state's electric utilities in regional transmission organizations and submit a report ...

...tric utility supplying retail electric service in this state on that date shall file with the public utilities commission a plan for the utility's provision of retail electric service in this state during the market development period. This transition plan shall be in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule adopted under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code and shall include all of t...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall establish reasonable procedures for expedited discovery in any proceeding initiated to consider a transition plan filed under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than forty-five days after the date on which an electric utility files a transition plan under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code, any person having a real and substantial interest in the transition...

...ing date of competitive retail electric service and shall continue in effect until such time as any other replacement transition plan takes effect pursuant to a final commission order or resolution of an appeal. Any interim plan so prescribed shall comply with the applicable provisions of section 4928.34 of the Revised Code. A final commission order shall provide for a reconciliation of those amounts determined in th...

...ansmission component of retail electric service, as specified in the utility's rate unbundling plan required by division (A)(1) of section 4928.31 of the Revised Code, equal the tariff rates determined by the federal energy regulatory commission that are in effect on the date of the approval of the transition plan under sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, as each such rate is determined applicable ...

...ic utility's retail electric generation service and distribution service, as provided in division (A) of this section, are not subject to adjustment for the utility's market development period, except that the commission shall order an equitable reduction in those components for all customer classes to reflect any refund a utility receives as a result of the resolution of utility personal property tax valuation litig...

...ing date of competitive retail electric service, to determine whether an electric utility has failed to implement, in conformance with an order under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code or in ongoing compliance with applicable provisions of the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code, a transition plan approved under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code. If, after reasonable notice and opportunity for ...

...ing date of competitive retail electric service and ending on the expiration date of its market development period as determined under section 4928.40 of the Revised Code: (a) Payment of unbundled rates for retail electric services by each customer that is supplied retail electric generation service during the market development period by the customer's electric distribution utility, which rates shall be specified i...

...ing date of competitive retail electric service. Except as provided in sections 4905.33 to 4905.35 of the Revised Code and this chapter, an electric utility that receives such transition revenues shall be wholly responsible for how to use those revenues and wholly responsible for whether it is in a competitive position after the market development period. The utility's receipt of transition revenues shall terminate a...

...allocable to retail electric generation service provided to electric consumers in this state. (C) The costs are unrecoverable in a competitive market. (D) The utility would otherwise be entitled an opportunity to recover the costs. Transition costs under this section shall include the costs of employee assistance under the employee assistance plan included in the utility's approved transition plan under section 49...

...omponent for retail electric generation service set in the utility's approved transition plan under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code, and in no case shall the commission establish a transition charge in an amount less than zero. (B)(1) The commission may conduct a periodic review no more often than annually and, as it determines necessary, adjust the transition charges of the electric utility as initially establi...

...ams, including the bureau of employment services and the department of development, 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 labor contract or other agreement, no unencumbered money ...

...(A) An electric distribution utility may, on a nondiscriminatory basis and subject to approval by the public utilities commission, enter into an agreement having a term of three years or more with a mercantile customer or group of mercantile customers for the purpose of constructing a customer sited renewable energy resource in this state that will provide the mercantile customer or group with a material portion of t...