Sec. 96.7. Electric submetering equipment requirements

All submeterers, whether authorized to submeter by commission order, rule, or past practice shall provide or continue to provide submetered service under the following conditions unless waived in whole or in part by commission order for good cause shown:

(a) All submetering products and ancillary equipment used to monitor electric flow to submetered residents and installed or replaced after January 1, 2014 must:

(1) comply with the provisions of Parts 92 and 93 of this Title; and

(2) be physically compatible with the service endpoints of the premises’ electrical system. Submeters shall be equipped with viewable registers, accessible to the resident so the resident may monitor their own kWh consumption or shall provide alternate mechanisms to allow residents to monitor their own consumption such as through a computer program;

(3) submeters that are calibrated to register a fixed fraction of the electricity consumed should display the meter register multiplier which will be used to determine the resident’s actual kilowatt hour usage. Any register multiplier used should be indicated on resident bills.

(b) Ensuring continued submeter performance – submeter inspection and testing programs shall be instituted to ensure that residents of submetered premises continue to receive reliable and accurate electric consumption measurements. The submeterer or submeterer’s agent shall conduct an annual testing program to analyze a statistically significant sample of the in-service submeters in accordance with the testing procedures and standards outlined in Parts 92 and 93 of this Title. Submeters that do not meet the requirements of Parts 92 and 93 of this Title shall be corrected or recalibrated as soon as practicable but no later than one year after testing unless otherwise ordered by the commission.

(c) Cost of meter tests for all submeters – the cost of testing a submeter’s accuracy shall be borne by the submeterer to the extent described in this paragraph. A recipient of submetered service may request and receive one submeter test at no cost during a 12-month period when the request is made pursuant to a consumer complaint. A recipient of submetered service may request more than one meter test during a twelve month period and may request that the test be witnessed by Department of Public Service staff; however, if the submeter is not out of the limits as prescribed by Part 92 of this Title, the person requesting more than one annual test will bear the cost of such additional meter tests.