Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1010 – Electric distribution companies’ obligation to serve customers
(a) The standard offer service supplier shall provide standard offer service which is safe, efficient, adequate and reliable. The Commission may take appropriate actions to ensure that the standard offer service supplier provides such safe, adequate, efficient and reliable standard offer service.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1010
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Commission: means the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- customer: means a purchaser of electricity for ultimate consumption and not for resale in this State, including the owner/operator of any building or facility, but not the occupants thereof, that purchases and supplies electricity to the occupants of such building or facility. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- Electric distribution company: means a public utility owning and/or operating transmission and/or distribution facilities in this State. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- Electric supplier: means a person or entity certified by the Commission that sells electricity to retail electric customers utilizing the transmission and/or distribution facilities of a nonaffiliated electric utility, including:
- Retail competition: means the right of a customer to purchase electricity from an electric supplier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
- 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
- Standard offer service supplier: means the electric distribution company serving within its certificated service territory. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
(b) The Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the amount of notice that a customer who desires to return to the standard offer service supplier must provide, the minimum amount of time that a customer must take service from a standard offer service supplier, and the amount of charges that may be assessed against a customer who leaves the standard offer service supplier and later returns to the standard offer service supplier, including the appropriate retail market price, which may be higher than the standard offer service price.
(c) After hearing and a determination that it is in the public interest, the Commission is authorized to restrict retail competition and/or add a nonbypassable charge to protect the customers of the electric distribution company receiving standard offer service. The General Assembly recognizes that electric distribution companies are now required to provide standard offer service to many customers who may not have the opportunity to choose their own electric supplier. Consequently, it is necessary to protect these customers from substantial migration away from standard offer service, whereupon they may be forced to share too great a share of the cost of the fixed assets that are necessary to serve them as required by the Electric Utility Retail Customer Supply Act of 2006, 75 Del. Laws, c. 242.
72 Del. Laws, c. 10, § ?3; 74 Del. Laws, c. 73, §§ ?4, 5; 75 Del. Laws, c. 242, § ?8;