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NC Gen Stat § 62-126.8 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 6B - Distributed Resources Access Act.|§ 62-126.8 - Community solar energy facilities.

 62-126.8. Community solar energy facilities.(a) Each offering utility shall file a plan with the Commission to offer a community solar energy facility program for participation by its retail customers. The community solar energy facility program shall be designed so that each community solar energy facility offsets the energy use of not less than five subscribers and no single subscriber has more than a forty percent (40%) interest. The offering utility shall make its community solar energy facility program available on a first-come, first-served basis until the total nameplate generating capacity of those facilities equals 20 megawatts (MW).(b) A community solar energy facility shall have a nameplate capacity of no more than five megawatts (MW). Each subscription shall be sized to represent at least 200 watts (W) of the community solar energy facility's generating capacity and to supply no more than one hundred percent (100%) of the maximum annual peak demand of electricity of each subscriber at the subscriber's premises.(c) A community solar energy facility must be located in the service territory of the offering utility filing the plan. Subscribers shall be located in the State of North Carolina and the same county or a county contiguous to where the facility is located. The electric public utility may file a request for Commission approval for an exemption from the location requirement of this subsection and the Commission may approve the request for a facility located up to 75 miles from the county of the subscribers, if the Commission deems the exemption to be in the public interest.(d) The offering utility shall credit the subscribers to its community solar energy facility for all subscribed shares of energy generated by the facility at the avoided cost rate.(e) The Commission may approve, disapprove, or modify a community solar energy facility program. The program shall meet all of the following requirements:(1) Establish uniform standards and processes for the community solar energy facilities that allow the electric public utility to recover reasonable interconnection costs, administrative costs, fixed costs, and variable costs associated with each community solar energy facility, including purchase expenses if a power purchase agreement is elected as the method of energy procurement by the offering utility.(2) Be consistent with the public interest.(3) Identify the information that must be provided to potential subscribers to ensure fair disclosure of future costs and benefits of subscriptions.(4) Include a program implementation schedule.(5) Identify all proposed rules and charges.(6) Describe how the program will be promoted.(7) Hold harmless customers of the electric public utility who do not subscribe to a community solar energy facility.(8) Allow subscribers to have the option to own the renewable energy certificates produced by the community solar energy facility.  (2017-192, s. 6(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 62-126.10 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 6B - Distributed Resources Access Act.|§ 62-126.10 - Rules.

 62-126.10. Rules.The Commission shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this Article.  (2017-192, s. 6(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 62-130 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-130 - Commission to make rates for public utilities.

 62-130. Commission to make rates for public utilities.(a) The Commission shall make, fix, establish or allow just and reasonable rates for all public utilities subject to its jurisdiction. A rate is made, fixed, established or allowed when it becomes effective pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.(b) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 676, s. 15.(c) Repealed by Session Laws 2021-23, s. 14, effective May 17, 2021.(d) The Commission shall from time to time as often as circumstances may require, change and revise or cause to be changed or revised any rates fixed by the Commission, or allowed to be charged by any public utility.(e) In all cases where the Commission requires or orders a public utility to refund moneys to its customers which were advanced by or overcollected from its customers, the Commission shall require or order the utility to add to said refund an amount of interest at such rate as the Commission may determine to be just and reasonable; provided, however, that such rate of interest applicable to said refund shall not exceed ten percent (10%) per annum.  (1899, c. 164, ss. 2, 7, 14; 1903, c. 683; Rev., ss. 1096, 1099, 1106; 1907, c. 469, s. 4; Ex. Sess. 1908, c. 144, s. 1; 1913, c. 127, s. 2; 1917, c. 194; C.S., ss. 1066, 1071, 3489; Ex. Sess. 1920, c. 51, s. 1; 1925, c. 37; 1929, cc. 82, 91; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; 1941, c. 97; 1953, c. 170; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1981, c. 461, s. 1; 1985, c. 676, s. 15(1); 2021-23, s. 14.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-131 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-131 - Rates must be just and reasonable; service efficient.

 62-131. Rates must be just and reasonable; service efficient.(a) Every rate made, demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities jointly, shall be just and reasonable.(b) Every public utility shall furnish adequate, efficient and reasonable service. (1933, c. 307, ss. 2, 3; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-132 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-132 - Rates established under this Chapter deemed just and reasonable; remedy for collection of unjust or unreasonable rates.

 62-132. Rates established under this Chapter deemed just and reasonable; remedy for collection of unjust or unreasonable rates.The rates established under this Chapter by the Commission shall be deemed just and reasonable, and any rate charged by any public utility different from those so established shall be deemed unjust and unreasonable. Provided, however, that upon petition filed by any interested person, and a hearing thereon, if the Commission shall find the rates or charges collected to be other than the rates established by the Commission, and to be unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory or preferential, the Commission may enter an order awarding such petitioner and all other persons in the same class a sum equal to the difference between such unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory or preferential rates or charges and the rates or charges found by the Commission to be just and reasonable, nondiscriminatory and nonpreferential, to the extent that such rates or charges were collected within two years prior to the filing of such petition. (1913, c. 127, s. 3; C.S., s. 1067; 1929, cc. 241, 342; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; 1941, c. 97; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.1 - Small water and sewer utility rates.

 62-133.1. Small water and sewer utility rates.(a) In fixing the rates for any water or sewer utility, the Commission may fix such rates on the ratio of the operating expenses to the operating revenues, such ratio to be determined by the Commission, unless the utility requests that such rates be fixed under G.S. 62-133(b) or G.S. 62-133.1B. Nothing in this subsection shall be held to extinguish any remedy or right not inconsistent herewith. This subsection shall be in addition to other provisions of this Chapter which relate to public utilities generally, except that in cases of conflict between such other provisions, this section shall prevail for water and sewer utilities.(b) A water or sewer utility may enter into uniform contracts with nonusers of its utility service within a specific subdivision or development for the payment by such nonusers to the utility of a fee or charge for placing or maintaining lines or other facilities or otherwise making and keeping such utility's service available to such nonusers; or such a utility may, by contract of assignment, receive the benefits and assume the obligations of uniform contracts entered into between the developers of subdivisions and the purchasers of lots in such subdivisions whereby such developer has contracted to make utility service available to lots in such subdivision and purchasers of such lots have contracted to pay a fee or charge for the availability of such utility service; provided, however, that the maximum nonuser rate shall be as established by contract, except that the contractual charge to nonusers of the utility service can never exceed the lawfully established minimum rate to user customers of the utility service.  (1973, c. 956, s. 2; 2021-149, s. 1(b).)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.7 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.7 - Customer usage tracking rate adjustment mechanisms for natural gas local distribution company rates.

 62-133.7. Customer usage tracking rate adjustment mechanisms for natural gas local distribution company rates.In setting rates for a natural gas local distribution company in a general rate case proceeding under G.S. 62-133, the Commission may adopt, implement, modify, or eliminate a rate adjustment mechanism for one or more of the company's rate schedules, excluding industrial rate schedules, to track and true-up variations in average per customer usage from levels approved in the general rate case proceeding. The Commission may adopt a rate adjustment mechanism only upon a finding by the Commission that the mechanism is appropriate to track and true-up variations in average per customer usage by rate schedule from levels adopted in the general rate case proceeding and that the mechanism is in the public interest. (2007-227, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.7A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.7A - Rate adjustment mechanism for natural gas local distribution company rates.

 62-133.7A. Rate adjustment mechanism for natural gas local distribution company rates.In setting rates for a natural gas local distribution company in a general rate case proceeding under G.S. 62-133, the Commission may adopt, implement, modify, or eliminate a rate adjustment mechanism to enable the company to recover the prudently incurred capital investment and associated costs of complying with federal gas pipeline safety requirements, including a return based on the company's then authorized return. The Commission shall adopt, implement, modify, or eliminate a rate adjustment mechanism authorized under this section only upon a finding by the Commission that the mechanism is in the public interest.  (2013-54, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.11 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.11 - Rate adjustment for changes in costs based on third-party rates.

 62-133.11. Rate adjustment for changes in costs based on third-party rates.(a) The Commission shall permit a water or sewer public utility to adjust its rates approved pursuant to G.S. 62-133 to reflect changes in costs based solely upon changes in the rates imposed by third-party suppliers of purchased water or sewer service, including applicable taxes and fees.(b) Any water or sewer public utility seeking to adjust its rates pursuant to this section shall file a verified petition in such form and detail as the Commission may require.(c) The Commission shall issue an order approving, denying, or approving with modifications a rate adjustment requested pursuant to this section within 60 days of the date of filing of a completed petition, unless that time is for good cause extended up to a maximum of 90 days.  (2013-106, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.12A (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.12A - Customer usage tracking rate adjustment mechanisms for water and wastewater rates.

 62-133.12A. Customer usage tracking rate adjustment mechanisms for water and wastewater rates.In setting rates for a water and wastewater utility in a general rate proceeding under G.S. 62-133, the Commission may adopt, implement, modify, or eliminate a rate adjustment mechanism for one or more of the company's rate schedules to track and true-up variations in average per customer usage from levels approved in the general rate case proceeding. The Commission may adopt a rate adjustment mechanism only upon a finding by the Commission that the mechanism is appropriate to track and true-up variations in average per customer usage by rate schedule from levels adopted in the general rate case proceeding and the mechanism is in the public interest.  (2019-88, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.12B (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.12B - Computation of income tax expense for ratemaking purposes; taxable contributions.

 62-133.12B. Computation of income tax expense for ratemaking purposes; taxable contributions.A water or wastewater public utility is solely responsible for funding the income taxes on taxable contributions in aid of construction and customer advances for construction and shall record the income taxes the water or wastewater utility pays in accumulated deferred income taxes for accounting and ratemaking purposes.  (2021-23, s. 25; 2021-76, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-133.13 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-133.13 - Recovery of costs related to unlawful discharges from coal combustion residuals surface impoundments to the surface waters of the State.

 62-133.13. Recovery of costs related to unlawful discharges from coal combustion residuals surface impoundments to the surface waters of the State.The Commission shall not allow an electric public utility to recover from the retail electric customers of the State costs resulting from an unlawful discharge to the surface waters of the State from a coal combustion residuals surface impoundment, unless the Commission determines the discharge was due to an event of force majeure. For the purposes of this section, "coal combustion residuals surface impoundments" has the same meaning as in G.S. 130A-309.201. For the purposes of this section, "unlawful discharge" means a discharge that results in a violation of State or federal surface water quality standards.  (2014-122, s. 1(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 62-135 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-135 - Temporary rates under bond.

 62-135. Temporary rates under bond.(a) Notwithstanding an order of suspension of an increase in rates, any public utility except a common carrier may, subject to the provisions of subsections (b), (c) and (d) hereof, put such suspended rate or rates into effect upon the expiration of six months after the date when such rate or rates would have become effective, if not so suspended, by notifying the Commission and its consumers of its action in making such increase not less than 10 days prior to the day when it shall be placed in effect; provided, however, that utilities engaged in the distribution of utility commodities bought at wholesale by the utility for distribution to consumers may put such suspended rate or rates, to the extent occasioned by changes in the wholesale rate of such utility commodity, into effect at the expiration of 30 days after the date when such rate or rates would become effective if not so suspended; provided that no rate or rates shall be left in effect longer than one year unless the Commission shall have rendered its decision upon the reasonableness thereof within such period. This section to become effective July 1, 1963.(b) No rate or rates placed in effect pursuant to this section shall result in an increase of more than twenty percent (20%) on any single rate classification of the public utility.(c) No rate or rates shall be placed in effect pursuant to this section until the public utility has filed with the Commission a bond in a reasonable amount approved by the Commission, with sureties approved by the Commission, or an undertaking approved by the Commission, conditioned upon the refund in a manner to be prescribed by order of the Commission, to the persons entitled thereto of the amount of the excess plus interest from the date that such rates were put into effect, if the rate or rates so put into effect are finally determined to be excessive. The amount of said interest shall be determined pursuant to G.S. 62-130(e).(d) If the rate or rates so put into effect are finally determined to be excessive, the public utility shall make refund of the excess plus interest to its customers within 30 days after such final determination, and the Commission shall set forth in its final order the terms and conditions for such refund. If such refund is not paid in accordance with such order, any persons entitled to such refund may sue therefor, either jointly or severally, and be entitled to recover, in addition to the amount of the refund, all court costs and reasonable attorney fees for the plaintiff, to be fixed by the court. (1933, c. 307, s. 7; 1959, c. 422; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1981, c. 461, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-136 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-136 - Investigation of existing rates; changing unreasonable rates; certain refunds to be distributed to customers.

 62-136. Investigation of existing rates; changing unreasonable rates; certain refunds to be distributed to customers.(a) Whenever the Commission, after a hearing had after reasonable notice upon its own motion or upon complaint of anyone directly interested, finds that the existing rates in effect and collected by any public utility are unjust, unreasonable, insufficient or discriminatory, or in violation of any provision of law, the Commission shall determine the just, reasonable, and sufficient and nondiscriminatory rates to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order.(b) All municipalities in the State are deemed to be directly interested in the rates and service of public utilities operating in such municipalities, and may institute or participate in proceedings before the Commission involving such rates or service. Any municipality may institute proceedings before the Commission to eliminate unfair and unreasonable discrimination in rates or service by any public utility between such complainant or its inhabitants and any other municipality or its inhabitants, and the Commission shall, upon complaint, after hearing afforded to the public utility affected and to all municipalities affected, have authority to remove such discrimination.(c) If any refund is made to a distributing company operating as a public utility in North Carolina of charges paid to the company from which the distributing company obtains the energy, service or commodity distributed, the Commission may, in cases where the charges have been included in rates paid by the customers of the distributing company, require said distributing company to distribute said refund plus interest among the distributing company's customers in a manner prescribed by the Commission. The amount of said interest shall be determined pursuant to G.S. 62-130(e). (Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 20, s. 7; C.S., s. 1083; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; c. 307, s. 8; 1937, c. 401; 1941, c. 97; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1981, c. 460, s. 1.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-137 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-137 - Scope of rate case.

 62-137. Scope of rate case.In setting a hearing on rates upon its own motion, upon complaint, or upon application of a public utility, the Commission shall declare the scope of the hearing by determining whether it is to be a general rate case, under G.S. 62-133, or whether it is to be a case confined to the reasonableness of a specific single rate, a small part of the rate structure, or some classification of users involving questions which do not require a determination of the entire rate structure and overall rate of return. The procedures established in this section shall not be required when pricing alternatives permitted under G.S. 62-134(h) and (j) are adopted. (1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1989, c. 112, s. 4.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-139 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-139 - Rates varying from schedule prohibited; refunding overcharge; penalty.

 62-139. Rates varying from schedule prohibited; refunding overcharge; penalty.(a) No public utility shall directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by such public utility than that prescribed by the Commission, nor shall any person receive or accept any service from a public utility for a compensation greater or less than that prescribed by the Commission.(b) Any public utility in the State which shall willfully charge a rate for any public utility service in excess of that prescribed by the Commission, and which shall omit to refund the same within 30 days after written notice and demand of the person overcharged, unless relieved by the Commission for good cause shown, shall be liable to him for double the amount of such overcharge, plus a penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each day's delay after 30 days from such notice or date of denial or relief by the Commission, whichever is later. Such overcharge and penalty shall be recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction. (1903, c. 590, ss. 1, 2; Rev., ss. 2642, 2643, 2644; Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 20, ss. 5, 12; C.S., ss. 1082, 1086, 3514; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; c. 307, s. 5; 1941, c. 97; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1989, c. 112, s. 6.)
NC Gen Stat § 62-141 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 62 - Public Utilities|Article 7 - Rates of Public Utilities.|§ 62-141 - Long and short hauls.

 62-141. Long and short hauls.(a) Except when expressly permitted by the Commission, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier to charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of like kind of household goods under substantially similar circumstances and conditions for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance; but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrier within the terms of this Chapter to charge and receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance.(b) Upon application to the Commission, common carriers may in special cases be authorized to charge less for longer than for shorter distances for the transportation of household goods; and the Commission may from time to time prescribe the extent to which such designated common carrier may be relieved from the operation of this section.(c) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to bus companies or to their rates, charges or tariffs. (1899, c. 164, s. 14; Rev., s. 1107; Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 20, s. 9; 1915, c. 17, s. 1; C.S., s. 1072; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; 1941, c. 97; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1985, c. 676, s. 15(4); 1995, c. 523, s. 7.)