Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1002 – Standards for electric utility restructuring
The General Assembly declares that the following interdependent standards shall govern the Commission‘s review and approval of each public utility‘s restructuring plan, oversight of the transition process and regulation of the restructured electric utility industry pursuant to this chapter.
(1) The reliability of electric service to all customers in this State shall be maintained.
(2) On and after the implementation dates set forth in § 1003 of this title, customers shall have the right to choose among electric suppliers.
(3) Nothing contained herein shall have the effect of abrogating or amending contracts between public utilities and any of their customers in place on February 1, 1999.
(4) On or after May 1, 2006, it is the policy of the State that electric distribution companies subject to the oversight of the Commission and as part of their obligation to be standard offer service suppliers shall engage in integrated resource planning for the purpose of evaluating and diversifying their electric supply options, efficiently and at the lowest cost to their customers.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1002
- Commission: means the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- Integrated resource planning: means the planning process of an electric distribution company that systematically evaluates all available supply options, including but not limited to: generation, transmission and demand-side management programs, during the planning period to ensure that the electric distribution company acquires sufficient and reliable resources over time that meet its customers' needs at a minimal cost. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Public utility: includes every individual, partnership, association, corporation, joint stock company, agency or department of the State or any association of individuals engaged in the prosecution in common of a productive enterprise (commonly called a "cooperative"), their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, that now operates or hereafter may operate for public use within this State, (however, electric cooperatives shall not be permitted directly or through an affiliate to engage in the production, sale or distribution of propane gas or heating oil), any natural gas, electric (excluding electric suppliers as defined in § 1001 of this title), electric transmission by other than a public utility over which the Commission has no supervisory or regulatory jurisdiction pursuant to § 202(a) or (g) of this title, water, wastewater (which shall include sanitary sewer charge), telecommunications (excluding telephone services provided by cellular technology or by domestic public land mobile radio service) service, system, plant or equipment. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
- Standard offer service: means the provision of electric supply service after the transition period by a standard offer service supplier to customers who do not otherwise receive electric supply service from an electric supplier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302