4/24/13 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-17-13-00010-P
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Commission is considering recommendations on the provision of historical utility billing information for residential energy services company (ESCO) customers for comparison on monthly bills and other outreach venues to payment troubled customers.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 2, 4(1), 30-53, 65 and 66
Subject:
Provision of historical pricing information for comparison purposes for residential ESCO customers.
Purpose:
Provision of historical pricing information for comparison purposes for residential ESCO customers.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Commission is considering whether to adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or part, recommendations on the provision of historical utility billing information for residential energy services company (ESCO) customers for comparison on monthly bills and other outreach venues to payment troubled customers in the service territory of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation d/b/a National Grid (the Company).
In its March 15, 2013 Order in this proceeding, the Commission approved the development and implementation of a web-based bill calculator to enable ESCO customers to compare their actual billings to what they would have been billed had they been full-requirements customers of the Company through a collaborative.
The March 15, 2013 Order also directed that the collaborative consider other enhancements for the provision of historical utility billing information for ESCO customers on the presentation of similar comparisons on monthly customer bills and outreach venues to payment troubled customers.
The collaborative will report its recommendations to the Commission within 90 days of the issuance of the Commission Order.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained by filing a Document Request Form (F-96) located on our website http://www.dps.ny.gov/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
Deborah Swatling, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 486-2659, email:
Deborah.Swatling@dps.ny.govData, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Jeffrey C. Cohen, Acting Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 408-1978, email:
secretary@dps.ny.govPublic comment will be received until:
45 days after publication of this notice.
Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement
Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
