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IN HB1531
Bill
Status
1/18/2017
Primary Sponsor
Ryan Dvorak
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AI Summary
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Requires the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) to adopt rules establishing monthly service outage caps for each investor-owned electric utility, expressed in hours and applied to all monthly billing periods in a calendar year.
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Mandates electric utilities provide refunds or billing credits to all customer classes in service areas where actual monthly service outage hours exceed the utility's monthly cap.
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Prohibits electric utilities from recovering the cost of refunds or credits through periodic retail rate adjustment mechanisms or in future general rate cases.
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Requires the IURC to adopt rules by a date enabling monthly service outage caps to be imposed for all electric utilities beginning January 1, 2018.
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Permits the IURC to adopt emergency rules to meet the January 1, 2018 implementation deadline, with such emergency rules expiring when superseded by permanent rules.
Legislative Description
Monthly service outage caps for electric utilities. Requires the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to adopt rules to establish a procedure for determining for each investor owned electric utility a monthly service outage cap, expressed in hours, that applies to all monthly billing periods for that electric utility in a particular calendar year. Provides that the IURC's rules must include a monthly billing procedure under which an electric utility must provide a refund or billing credit to all customer classes in any part of the electric utility's assigned service area in which the number of actual service outage hours for the
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
1/18/2017