The General Assembly finds and declares that the purpose of this subtitle is to: (1) establish customer choice of electricity supply and electricity supply services; (2) create competitive retail electricity supply and electricity supply services markets; (3) deregulate the generation, supply, and pricing of electricity; (4) provide economic benefits for all customer classes; and (5) ensure compliance with federal and […]
(a) (1) In assessing and approving each electric company’s restructuring plan, and overseeing the transition process and regulation of the restructured electric industry, the Commission shall provide that the transition to a competitive electricity supply and electricity supply services market shall be orderly, maintain electric system reliability, and ensure compliance with federal and State environmental regulations, be […]
(a) The electric company in a distribution territory shall provide and be responsible for distribution services in the territory. (b) The electric company shall provide distribution services in its distribution territory to all customers and electricity suppliers on rates, terms of access, and conditions that are comparable to the electric company’s own use of its distribution system. […]
(a) A person, other than an electric company providing standard offer service under § 7–510(c) of this subtitle, a municipal electric utility serving customers solely in its distribution territory, or a community choice aggregator under § 7–510.3 of this subtitle, may not engage in the business of an electricity supplier in the State unless the person […]
(a) An electric company may transfer any of its generation facilities or generation assets to an affiliate. (b) The transfer of a generation facility or generation asset to an affiliate may not affect or restrict the Commission’s determination of the value of a generation asset for purposes of transition costs or benefits under § 7-513(b) of this […]
(a) (1) On and after the initial implementation date, the generation, supply, and sale of electricity, including all related facilities and assets, may not be regulated as an electric company service or function except to: (i) establish the price for standard offer service under § 7–510(c) of this subtitle; and (ii) review and approve transfers of generation assets under […]
(a) (1) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the phased implementation of customer choice shall be implemented as follows: (i) on July 1, 2000, one–third of the residential class in the State of each electric company shall have the opportunity for customer choice; (ii) on January 1, 2001, the entire industrial class and the entire commercial class in […]
(a) The Commission shall educate customers about customer choice in accordance with this section. (b) (1) The Commission shall: (i) host and regularly update a user–friendly customer choice education section on its website that complies with standards issued under § 508 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and (ii) prominently display a link to that section of the Commission’s […]
(a) The Commission shall establish a customer choice shopping website that allows a customer to sort electricity suppliers that have open offers to supply electricity to residential customers in the customer’s service area. (b) The website shall include: (1) a list of all electricity suppliers that have open offers to supply electricity to residential customers in a customer’s […]
(a) In this section, “small commercial electric customer” means a commercial electric customer that has a peak electric load of not more than 25 kilowatts and includes master–metered multiple occupancy residences that have a peak electric load of not more than 25 kilowatts. (b) This section applies only in Montgomery County. (c) (1) There is a Community Choice Aggregation […]
(a) Except for electric cooperatives and municipal electric utilities: (1) competitive billing shall begin on July 1, 2000; (2) competitive metering for large customers shall begin on January 1, 2002; and (3) competitive metering for all other customers shall begin on April 1, 2002, or earlier if requested by the electric company. (b) The Commission shall adopt regulations or issue […]
(a) This section and § 7-513 of this subtitle apply to an entity that was regulated as an electric company on June 30, 1999, whether or not the entity or any of its businesses, services, or assets continues to be regulated under this article after that date. (b) An electric company may recover costs under this section […]
(a) (1) The Commission shall establish an electric universal service program to assist electric customers with annual incomes: (i) at or below 175% of the federal poverty level; or (ii) for a customer at least 67 years of age, at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. (2) The components of the electric universal service program shall include: (i) bill […]
(a) (1) In accordance with this subsection, an electric company shall be provided a fair opportunity to recover all of its prudently incurred and verifiable net transition costs, subject to full mitigation, following the Commission’s determination under subsection (b) of this section. (2) A competitive transition charge, or other appropriate mechanism that the Commission determines, may be included […]
(a) (1) On complaint or on its own motion, for good cause shown, the Commission may conduct an investigation of the retail electricity supply and electricity supply services markets and determine whether the function of one of these markets is being adversely affected by market power or any other anticompetitive conduct. (2) The Commission shall monitor the retail […]
An electricity supplier that also provides distribution service, or that has an affiliate that provides distribution service, in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, or the District of Columbia may not provide retail electricity supply service, directly, indirectly, or through an aggregator, marketer, or broker, in the distribution territory of an unaffiliated electric company unless there […]
(a) (1) In recognition of the potential environmental impacts of restructuring the electric industry, it is the intent of the General Assembly to minimize the effects of electric restructuring on the environment. (2) Electric companies in Maryland shall conduct a study that tracks shifts in generation and emissions as a result of restructuring the electric industry. (3) The study […]
This subtitle may be referred to as the “Electric Customer Choice and Competition Act of 1999”.
