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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 15. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CABLE TELEVISION |
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Chapter 15-41. THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STANDARD OFFER SERVICE RULES |
Section 15-4105. ESTABLISHMENT AND RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARD OFFER SERVICE: CUSTOMER SWITCHING RESTRICTIONS
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4105.1SOS shall be provided to any customer who purchases a new service within the District of Columbia and who does not obtain electric generation service from a Competitive Electricity Supplier at that time. There shall be no fee for a customer to establish SOS in this manner.
4105.2 Any customer taking service from a Competitive Electricity Supplier may terminate service with the Competitive Electricity Supplier and elect SOS upon notice to the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator as required by Subsection 4105.9.
4105.3 Any customer taking service from a Competitive Electricity Supplier who defaults may terminate service with the defaulting Competitive Electricity Supplier upon notice to the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator as required by Subsection 4105.9.
4105.4Any customer who is slammed or switched to a Competitive Electricity Supplier by mistake can terminate service with the Competitive Electricity Supplier upon notice to the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator as required by Subsection 4105.9, and such customer shall be returned to the service that the customer was receiving prior to being slammed or the mistake occurring as if the slamming or the mistake had not occurred.
4105.5All residential customers shall be eligible to switch from SOS to Competitive Electricity Suppliers and return to SOS without restrictions.
4105.6If a non-residential customer who has elected to purchase generation services from a Competitive Electricity Supplier subsequently returns to SOS, such non-residential customer shall be obligated to remain on SOS for a minimum term of twelve (12) months, provided, that in the case of a non-residential customer who returns to SOS as a result of a default by that non-residential customer’s Competitive Electricity Supplier, such non-residential customer may within a grace period of three full billing cycles thereafter elect to purchase or contract for generation services from another Competitive Electricity Supplier or elect to receive service from the SOS Administrator at Market Price Service rates in which event the minimum term of twelve (12) months does not apply. A Competitive Electricity Supplier default occurs when the PJM Interconnection L.L.C. notifies the PJM members that the Competitive Electricity Supplier is in default.
4105.7A non-residential customer who ceases to receive generation services from a Competitive Electricity Supplier may elect to receive service from the SOS Administrator at Market Price Service rates rather than Standard Offer Service rates. The minimum stay provisions stated in Subsection 4105.6 shall not apply to customers receiving service under Market Price Service rates. The Market Price Service rates shall be set in accordance with a tariff previously filed and approved by the Commission. The tariff shall contain a formula that reflects only the following components, or their functional equivalents in the future: the PJM locational marginal price for energy for the Electric Company zone, the PJM posted and verifiable market capacity price, transmission, ancillary services, line losses, appropriate taxes and a fixed retail adder of x mills per kWh. (The amount of the retail adder will be determined in the administrative cost proceeding.) The Market Price Service rates may vary by customer class and reflect actual costs.
4105.8The contract provisions and exit fees of the Competitive Electricity Supplier remain valid and shall be enforced before a customer will be permitted to switch to SOS or another Competitive Electricity Supplier.
4105.9Notice of Transfers; Transfer of Service; Bill Calculation:
(a)Notice of Transfer into SOS: A customer who intends to transfer into SOS shall do so by notifying the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator or by canceling service with its Competitive Electricity Supplier.
(b)Transfer into SOS: If the customer notifies the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator no less than seventeen (17) days before the customer’s next normally scheduled meter read date, the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator shall transfer the customer on the customer’s next meter read date. Otherwise, transfer will occur on the following meter read date. The Electric Company and the SOS Administrator shall accommodate the request to the greatest extent practicable.
(c)Notice of Transfer out of SOS: Notice that a SOS customer will terminate SOS and obtain service from a Competitive Electricity Supplier shall be provided to the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator by the customer’s Competitive Electricity Supplier pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 15 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations; and
(d)Transfer out of SOS: If the Competitive Electricity Supplier notifies the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator no less than seventeen (17) days before the customer’s next meter read date, the Electric Company and the SOS Administrator shall transfer the customer on the customer’s next meter read date. Otherwise, transfer will occur on the subsequent meter read date.