Bill Text: PA HB2188 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Further providing for duties of electric distribution companies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 28-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-08 - Corrective Reprint, Printer's No. 3071 [HB2188 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2188-Amended.html

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CORRECTIVE REPRINT
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3067 PRINTER'S NO. 3071
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2188 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY REESE, KRIEGER, SACCONE, MARSHALL, EVANKOVICH, DUNBAR, CAUSER, COX, CREIGHTON, ELLIS, EVERETT, GABLER, GROVE, KAUFFMAN, LAWRENCE, MALONEY, METCALFE, MUSTIO, PETRARCA, RAPP, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for duties of
electric distribution companies. <--
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2807(f) of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a clause to read:
§ 2807. Duties of electric distribution companies.
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(f) Smart meter technology and time of use rates.--
(1) Within nine months after the effective date of this
paragraph, electric distribution companies shall file a smart
meter technology procurement and installation plan with the
commission for approval. The plan shall describe the smart
meter technologies the electric distribution company proposes
to install in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) Electric distribution companies shall furnish smart
meter technology as follows:
(i) Upon request from a customer that agrees to pay
the cost of the smart meter at the time of the request.
(ii) In new building construction.
(iii) In accordance with a depreciation schedule not
to exceed 15 years.
(iv) Customers may request to opt out of receiving
smart meter technology under subparagraph (iii) by
notifying, in writing, the electric distribution company.
Meters for customers who opt out will be replaced
according to a useful life depreciation schedule.
(3) Electric distribution companies shall, with customer
consent, make available direct meter access and electronic
access to customer meter data to third parties, including
electric generation suppliers and providers of conservation
and load management services.
(4) In no event shall lost or decreased revenues by an
electric distribution company due to reduced electricity
consumption or shifting energy demand be considered any of
the following:
(i) A cost of smart meter technology recoverable
under a reconcilable automatic adjustment clause under
section 1307(b), except that decreased revenues and
reduced energy consumption may be reflected in the
revenue and sales data used to calculate rates in a
distribution rate base rate proceeding filed under
section 1308 (relating to voluntary changes in rates).
(ii) A recoverable cost.
(5) By January 1, 2010, or at the end of the applicable
generation rate cap period, whichever is later, a default
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service provider shall submit to the commission one or more
proposed time-of-use rates and real-time price plans. The
commission shall approve or modify the time-of-use rates and
real-time price plan within six months of submittal. The
default service provider shall offer the time-of-use rates
and real-time price plan to all customers that have been
provided with smart meter technology under paragraph (2)
(iii). Residential or commercial customers may elect to
participate in time-of-use rates or real-time pricing. The
default service provider shall submit an annual report to the
price programs and the efficacy of the programs in affecting
energy demand and consumption and the effect on wholesale
market prices.
(6) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to
an electric distribution company with 100,000 or fewer
customers.
(7) An electric distribution company may recover
reasonable and prudent costs of providing smart meter
technology under paragraph (2)(ii) and (iii), as determined
by the commission. This paragraph includes annual
depreciation and capital costs over the life of the smart
meter technology and the cost of any system upgrades that the
electric distribution company may require to enable the use
of the smart meter technology which are incurred after the
effective date of this paragraph, less operating and capital
cost savings realized by the electric distribution company
from the installation and use of the smart meter technology.
Smart meter technology shall be deemed to be a new service
offered for the first time under section 2804(4)(vi). An
electric distribution company may recover smart meter
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technology costs:
(i) through base rates, including a deferral for
future base rate recovery of current basis with carrying
charge as determined by the commission; or
(ii) on a full and current basis through a
reconcilable automatic adjustment clause under section
1307.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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