An Act to Improve Electrical Supply Cost Transparency
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0069
Committee Amendment CA_A_H72 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "ff,, to H.P. 44, L.D. 69, "An Act to Improve 
Electrical Supply Cost Transparency" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, to Direct the Public Utilities Commission to Consider Methods to Educate 
Customers About Electricity Supply' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. Public Utilities Commission; information on cost components of 
supply. Resolved: That the Public Utilities Commission shall issue a request to 
competitive electricity providers and standard-offer service providers for the following 
information: 
1. Whether it is feasible for competitive electricity providers and standard-offer service 
providers to supply transmission and distribution utilities with a cost in cents per kilowatt-
hour for each power source used by each provider to serve the provider's load to be included 
by the transmission and distribution utilities on residential and small nonresidential 
consumer disclosure labels; 
2. If it is feasible, how useful is the information under subsection 1 to residential and 
small nonresidential consumers in understanding their electric supply costs and what are 
the estimated costs to competitive electricity providers and standard-offer service providers 
for supplying the information; 
3. If it is not feasible, what are the barriers to providing the information under 
subsection 1 to transmission and distribution utilities and what information is available to 
competitive electricity providers and standard-offer service providers that may be provided 
to assist consumers in understanding their electric supply costs; and 
4. Whether it is feasible for competitive electricity providers and standard-offer service 
providers to calculate the levelized cost of electricity for each power source used by each 
provider to serve the provider's load and, if not, what data elements would be needed in 
order to calculate the levelized costs. For the purposes of this subsection, "levelized cost 
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of electricity" means a measurement of the cost of building and operating a source of 
electrical generation over an assumed lifetime. 
Sec. 2. Electric consumer education. Resolved: 
That the Public Utilities 
Commission shall consider methods the commission could undertake to better educate 
electric consumers on their electric energy supply and the reasons for fluctuations in the 
price for that supply. 
Sec. 3. 
Report. Resolved: That, by February 10, 2024, the Public Utilities 
Commission shall submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and 
Technology that includes the information gathered under section 1 and what methods the 
commission considered under section 2, along with any recommendations. The committee 
may report out a bill related to the report to the 131st Legislature in 2024.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve. The amendment requires the Public 
Utilities Commission to issue a request for information to competitive electricity providers 
and standard-offer service providers. It also directs the commission to consider methods to 
undertake to better educate electric consumers on their electric energy supply and the 
factors that cause fluctuations in the cost of that supply. It also requires the commission to 
identify and examine methods to calculate the levelized cost of electricity for each power 
source that may be used in supplying energy to residential and small nonresidential 
consumers. It requires, by February 10, 2024, the commission to submit a report, and it 
allows the committee to report out a bill to the 131st Legislature in 2024. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 02/15/23 feae.. 
LD69 
LR 202(02) 
An Act to Improve Electrical Supply Cost Transparency 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment f/r{Jf--'12-) 
Committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
Any additional costs to the Public Utilities Commission to implement the provisions of this bill are expected to be 
minor and can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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