An Act To Maintain Competition among Electricity Suppliers Serving Northern Maine
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1553
Committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology
Sponsors: JACKSON, WILLETTE
Amends: 35-A MRSA §3205

Legislative Document 
No. 1553 
S.P. 595 
In Senate, May 30, 2013 
An Act To Maintain Competition among Electricity Suppliers 
Serving Northern Maine 
(AFTER DEADLINE) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered 
printed. 
DAREK M. GRANT 
Secretary of the Senate 
Presented by Senator JACKSON of Aroostook. 
Cosponsored by Representative WILLETTE of Mapleton. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  35-A MRSA §3205, sub-§2, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 316, §3, is 
amended to read: 
B.   Within the service territory of the distribution utility with which it is affiliated, 
except that: 
 (1) The affiliated competitive provider may not sell or contract to sell more than 
33% of the total kilowatt hours sold within the service territory of the distribution 
utility, as determined by the commission by rule; and 
 (2)  In accordance with section 3212, the affiliated competitive provider may not 
at any one time provide or bid to provide standard-offer service for more than 
20% of electric load within the territory of the transmission and distribution 
utility with which it is affiliated. 
The marketing limitations in this paragraph do not apply to competitive electricity 
service or standard-offer service in the service territory or any portion of the service 
territory of a distribution utility that is located in an area administered by the 
independent system administrator for northern Maine or any successor of the 
independent system administrator for northern Maine unless the commission finds 
that the level of competitive electricity service and standard-offer service competition 
in the area administered by the independent system administrator for northern Maine 
or any successor of the independent system administrator for northern Maine is 
substantially similar to the level of competitive electricity service and standard-offer 
service competition in the area of the State that is within the New England 
independent system operator control area.  All kilowatt hours sales and electric load 
in any portion of a distribution utility's service territory that is located in an area 
administered by the independent system administrator for northern Maine or any 
successor of the independent system administrator for northern Maine must be 
excluded from the calculation under this paragraph for those portions of the 
distribution utility's service territory that is not located in an area administered by the 
independent system administrator for northern Maine or any successor of the 
independent system administrator for northern Maine. 
SUMMARY 
This bill provides that the limitations on how much electricity an affiliated 
competitive provider may sell within the service territory of the distribution utility with 
which it is affiliated do not apply to competitive electricity service or standard-offer 
service in the service territory or any portion of the service territory of a distribution 
utility that is located in an area administered by the independent system administrator for 
northern Maine unless the Public Utilities Commission finds that the level of competitive 
electricity service and standard-offer service competition in the area administered by the 
independent system administrator for northern Maine is substantially similar to the level 
of competitive electricity service and standard-offer service competition in the area of the 
State that is within the New England independent system operator control area.