Connecticut General Statutes 16-24b – Low-income rates for gas and water companies with more than seventy-five thousand customers
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At the next general rate proceeding of each gas company and water company, as such terms are defined in section 16-1, with more than seventy-five thousand customers commencing on or after October 1, 2023, and conducted pursuant to section 16-19, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall investigate and determine whether to implement low-income rates for such company’s customers. Any low-income rates adopted pursuant to this section in a general rate proceeding shall apply only to the rate plan that is the subject of such proceeding.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 16-24b
- Authority: means the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and "department" means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Gas company: includes every person owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling mains, pipes or other fixtures, in public highways or streets, for the transmission or distribution of gas for sale for heat or power within this state, or engaged in the manufacture of gas to be so transmitted or distributed for such purpose, but shall not include (A) a person manufacturing gas through the use of a biomass gasification plant provided such person does not own, lease, maintain, operate, manage or control mains, pipes or other fixtures in public highways or streets, (B) a municipal gas utility established under chapter 101 or any other gas utility owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or controlled by any unit of local government under any general statute or any public or special act, or (C) an entity approved to submeter pursuant to section 16-19ff. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1
- Water company: includes every person owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling any pond, lake, reservoir, stream, well or distributing plant or system employed for the purpose of supplying water to fifty or more consumers. See Connecticut General Statutes 16-1