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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Standby Power Regulations for Water Companies › Section 16-11-99 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For purposes of Sections 16-11-99 through
					 16-11-99d of
					 the regulations:
(a) "Department"
				  shall mean the Department of Public Utility Control.
(b) "Company" shall mean a water company as
				  defined in Section
				  16-1 of
				  the General Statutes of Connecticut, relying on groundwater as its source of
				  supply.
(c) "Average Daily Demand"
				  shall mean the normal water usage of the system as determined for the most
				  representative twenty-four (24) hour period of record not affected by unusual
				  demand conditions such as drought or a significant temporary increase in
				  demand.
(d) "Standby Power" shall
				  mean an alternative source of providing power in the event of an electrical
				  outage.
(e) "Standby Power
				  Equipment" shall include permanent and portable generators, engine-driven
				  pumps, or other mechanical drive equipment.
(f) "Sufficient Standby Power Capacity" shall
				  mean the ability of a company to supply 100% of the average daily demand of its
				  system, or of each division if the company's system is comprised of multiple
				  divisions, and satisfy the requirements of the Connecticut Department of Health
				  Services concerning purity and adequacy of water.
(g) "Facility Location" shall include pumping
				  stations, treatment plants, storage tanks, and such other plant where electric
				  power is required to satisfy the design criteria for sufficient standby power
				  capacity, provided in Section
				  16-11-99(f)
				  of these regulations.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Standby Power Regulations for Water Companies › Section 16-11-99a - Permanent and portable generators

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each company
				  shall provide permanently installed gasoline, propane-fueled, natural gas or
				  oil-fired standby power equipment at such facility locations as are necessary
				  to provide sufficient standby power capacity. The prior approval of the
				  Connecticut Department of Health Services shall be required for the
				  installation of standby power equipment at a facility location.
(1) Portable generators with sufficient
				  standby power capacity may be considered acceptable as an alternative to an
				  on-site generator. Such portable generators may be used only if there are
				  suitable controls, connections and manual or automatic switches in the
				  pumphouse that are operational as of the effective date of Sections
				  16-11-99
				  through
				  16-11-99d.
(2) Portable generators shall be owned or
				  leased at all times by the company, by a subsidiary of the company, by the
				  parent of the company, or by a corporation with the same parent as the
				  company.
(3) Portable generators
				  must be ready to provide power within four hours of an electrical outage,
				  unless the company has sufficient atmospheric storage to provide safe and
				  adequate service, in conformance with the requirements of the Connecticut
				  Department of Health Services concerning purity and adequacy of water, for up
				  to twenty-four hours without electric power, but in no event shall standby
				  power not be provided more than twenty-four hours after the occurrence of an
				  electrical outage.
(4) Each company
				  providing standby power through the use of a portable generator or portable
				  generators shall report to the Department the type and capacity of the
				  generator or generators, the location where the generator or generators are
				  regularly stored, and the site or sites where the generator or generators will
				  be employed, no later than the implementation date provided in Section
				  16-11-99c.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Standby Power Regulations for Water Companies › Section 16-11-99b - Exemptions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The provisions of sections
				  16-11-99
				  through
				  16-11-99d
				  shall not apply to a company, as defined in section
				  16-11-99(b)
				  of these regulations, to the extent that the company is able to supply 100% of
				  the average daily demand of its system, or of a division of its system if the
				  company's system is comprised of multiple divisions, and satisfy the
				  requirements of the Connecticut Department of Health Services concerning purity
				  and adequacy of water, by (1) gravity alone, for a consecutive period of
				  twenty-four (24) hours without electric power, or (2) by an interconnection
				  with a system that is able to supply 100% of the average daily demand of both
				  the interconnected and interconnecting systems by gravity alone.
(b) Each company seeking an exemption from
				  these regulations pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall make a
				  written application for the approval of the Department of such an exemption.
				  Such application shall contain a statement of the facts and supporting
				  documentation sufficient to indicate that the condition or conditions for
				  exemption provided by subsection (a) of this section are met by the
				  company.
(c) The department shall
				  make a determination to approve or to deny the application for an exemption
				  within sixty (60) days of receipt of the application, except that the sixty
				  (60) day requirement may be waived in writing by the company.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Standby Power Regulations for Water Companies › Section 16-11-99c - Implementation

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each company shall comply with the
				  requirements of Sections
				  16-11-99
				  through
				  16-11-99d as
				  soon as practical, but no later than three years from the effective date of
				  these regulations. Each company shall provide written notice of compliance to
				  the Department, and to the Connecticut Department of Health Services, including
				  evidence of an interconnection if an exemption from these regulations is
				  requested pursuant to Section
				  16-11-99b
				  of these regulations.
(b) In the
				  event that a company, which was determined by the Department to be exempt from
				  these regulations pursuant to Section
				  16-11-99b,
				  ceases to meet the conditions for exemption provided by Section
				  16-11-99b,
				  such company shall provide written notice of its non-compliance to the
				  Department, and to the Connecticut Department of Health Services, within thirty
				  (30) days of the commencement of noncompliance, and shall provide written
				  notice of compliance with these regulations to the Department, and to the
				  Connecticut Department of Health Services, within one year from the date
				  non-compliance commenced.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Standby Power Regulations for Water Companies › Section 16-11-99d - Penalties

Current through July 10, 2024
Each company that fails to comply with the requirements of
					 Sections
					 16-11-99
					 through 16-11-99d shall be subject to the civil penalty provided for in Section
					 16-41
					 of the General Statutes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Section 16-11-100 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 16-11-100 to
						16-11-152,
						inclusive, and sections
						16-11-236
						to
						16-11-238,
						inclusive:
(a) "Utility" means a
					 railroad, electric, telephone or telegraph company, owning, leasing,
					 maintaining, operating, managing or controlling plants or parts of plants or
					 equipment within this state, but shall not include towns, cities, boroughs or
					 any municipal corporation or department thereof, whether separately
					 incorporated or not;
(b)
					 "Municipality" means a town, city, borough or any municipality or department
					 thereof, owning, leasing, maintaining, operating, managing or controlling
					 electric plants or parts of electric plants within this state;
(c) "Electric company" shall not include a
					 municipality, but means every corporation, company, association, joint stock
					 association, partnership, or person, or lessee thereof, owning, leasing,
					 maintaining, operating, managing or controlling poles, wires, conduits or other
					 fixtures along public highways or streets, for the transmission or distribution
					 of electric current for light, heat or power within this state, or engaged in
					 generating electricity to be so transmitted or distributed for such
					 purpose;
(d) "Commission" means the
					 public utilities commission of the state of Connecticut;
(e) "Customer" means any person, partnership,
					 firm, company, corporation, municipality, cooperative, organization,
					 governmental agency or similar organization furnished electric, telephone or
					 telegraph service by a utility;
(f)
					 "Submetering Customer" means any recreational campground, or other facility as
					 approved by the Department, whose electric service is furnished by an electric
					 company and who is authorized to submeter the service to other parties within
					 such facility;
(g) "Submetered
					 Party" means any person, partnership, firm, company, corporation or
					 organization whose electric service is furnished by a submetering customer of
					 an electric company; and
(h)
					 "Average Cost" means-
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Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Continuity of Service › Section 16-11-101 - Record of interruptions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Every electric
						company shall notify the commission of all electric outages whenever the total
						customer-outage hours is equal to, or greater than two hundred, provided,
						outages of less than thirty minutes duration need not be reported unless the
						loss of the electric supply produces a substantial adverse effect or hardship
						on the public.
(b) Repealed June
						11, 2014.
(c) Every utility shall
						make all reasonable efforts to prevent interruptions of service, and when such
						interruptions occur shall endeavor to reestablish service with the shortest
						possible delay. Whenever the service is necessarily interrupted or curtailed
						for any significant length of time for the purpose of working on equipment,
						such work should be done at a time which will cause the least inconvenience to
						customers, and those customers who will be affected shall be notified in
						advance to the extent practicable except in cases of emergency.
(d) Notification of electric outages shall be
						submitted by telephone as soon as may be reasonably practicable on the first
						working day after the occurrence of each interruption of service.
(e) On or before the fifth working day
						following the interruption the company shall file with the commission a report
						in writing of each such electric outage which shall include the date, time,
						outage area, cause, duration, number of customers affected, the number of
						customer-outage hours and the steps to be taken to prevent the recurrence of
						such interruption.
Publisher's note:
							 Public
							 Act 14-187 repealed subsections (d) and (e),
							 effective June 11, 2014. (June 11,
							 2014)
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Continuity of Service › Section 16-11-102 - Accidents

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Every utility shall use every effort to
						properly warn and protect the public from danger and shall exercise all
						possible care to reduce the hazard to which employees, customers and others may
						be subjected by reason of its equipment and facilities.
(b) Every utility shall make available to the
						commission all records, data, reports and statements of employees and shall
						assist the commission in promptly examining into the causes of and the
						circumstances connected with each accident which is the subject of commission
						investigation.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-103 - Rate schedules

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Every electric
						company shall keep on file, in its local office, open to public inspection,
						copies of all schedules of rates for each class and type of service, forms of
						agreement and all rules and regulations respecting the relations of the
						customer and electric company.
(b)
						Every electric company shall, upon request, furnish a customer the schedule of
						rates applicable to such customer.
(c) Every electric company shall render
						service to a customer only at rates provided for in the rate schedules on file
						with the commission, or as prescribed by order of the commission.
(d) Every new schedule of rates and any
						change in rates proposed by any electric company pursuant to statute shall be
						filed with the commission not less than ten days in advance of the date upon
						which it is to become effective.
(e) Every electric company shall file with
						the commission any change made in the filed rules and regulations respecting
						the relations of the customer and the electric company not less than ten days
						in advance of the date upon which such change is to become effective.
(f) Every electric company shall file with
						the commission a copy of each contract or agreement for billing of electric
						service to any customer or other utility, which contract or agreement provides
						for billing of electric service on a basis other than the company's field
						rates.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-104 - Information to customers

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Every electric
						company shall, upon request, give its customers such information as is
						reasonable, in order that customers may secure safe, adequate and proper
						service.
(b) Every electric company
						shall, upon request, render a statement of the past readings of a customer's
						meter for any period not in excess of fifteen months.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-105 - Customer bills and deposits

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each utility
						may require from any customer other than a residential customer as defined in
						section
						16-3-200(a)
						(3) or prospective customer other than a prospective residential customer as
						defined in section
						16-3-200(a)
						(4) a deposit to guarantee payment of bills. Such deposits shall not exceed an
						amount equivalent to the estimated maximum bill for ninety days.
(b) Each utility having on hand deposits from
						customers, or hereafter receiving deposits from customers, shall keep records
						to show:
(i) the name of the customer making
						the deposit;
(ii) the account
						number or other identification of the premises occupied by the customer when
						the deposit was made;
(iii) the
						amount and date of making the deposit;
(iv) a record of each transaction concerning
						the deposit.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-106 - Customer complaints and service requests

Current through July 10, 2024
Every electric company shall make prompt and reasonable
						  investigation of each complaint and other service requests made to it, either
						  at its office or in writing by any customer; and it shall keep a record of all
						  substantial complaints which shall show the name and address of the
						  complainant, the date and nature of the complaint and the disposal thereof.
						  Records of such complaints shall be kept for a period of not less than three
						  years.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-107 - Meter reading and bill form

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Meters shall be
						read each month at regular scheduled intervals, unless special permission is
						granted by the authority. Bills shall be rendered promptly. Estimated bills may
						be submitted to non-residential customers when it is impracticable to read
						meters at regular periods. Efforts shall be made to avoid rendering two
						consecutive estimated bills. Estimated bills of residential customers shall be
						rendered in accordance with the provisions of section
						16-3-102 of the
						regulations of Connecticut state agencies.
(b) The meter reading date may be advanced or
						postponed not more than five days without adjustment of the billing for the
						period.
(c) Every electric company
						shall show on all periodically rendered bills, the present and previous meter
						reading dates, the present meter reading, the kilowatt hours consumed, the rate
						designation, the fuel charge rate, if any, the amount of the bill, and such
						other information as will, in conjunction with its published rates, make
						possible a recomputation of the charges assessed.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-108 - Refusal or discontinuance of service

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) An electric
						company is not required to furnish service which could operate in parallel with
						generating equipment connected to the customer's system if such operation is
						hazardous or may interfere with its own operation or service to other
						customers. The electric company may specify conformance with its requirements
						as to connection and operation as a condition of rendering service under such
						circumstances.
(b) All wiring and
						equipment to be connected to the system of an electric company should be
						installed in accordance with the National Electrical Code currently in effect
						and an electric company may refuse to connect with any customer's wiring not so
						installed, or when the certificate of the underwriters or of the local
						inspection bureau has not been issued or when the wiring is not in accordance
						with the rules of such company.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Customer Relations › Section 16-11-110 - Adjustment of bills

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Whenever the
						test of a meter reveals it to be fast by more than four per cent, the electric
						company shall refund to the customer such percentage of the total amount of
						bills covering the consumption indicated by the meter for the previous six
						months as the meter was found to be in error (see sec.
						16-11-120(d)
						) at the time of the test, unless it can be shown from the records of either
						party that the error has existed for a greater or lesser period, in which case
						the refund shall cover such actual period.
(b) No refund shall be allowed in any case if
						the seal on the customer's meter is found to be broken or if there is any other
						evidence that the meter has been tampered with.
(c) In the event of a nonregistering meter,
						the customer may be billed on an estimate based on previous usage.
(d) If unmetered electricity is used without
						permission, the customer may be billed on an estimate of the energy
						consumed.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Utilization and Control Equipment › Section 16-11-111 - Company-owned equipment

Current through July 10, 2024
Electric companies shall service and maintain any
						  company-owned equipment on customers' premises and shall adjust thermostats,
						  clocks, relays or time switches if necessary to provide service in accordance
						  with the rate provisions.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Utilization and Control Equipment › Section 16-11-112 - Time switches

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Time switches
						owned by the electric company for controlling equipment such as water heaters
						shall be of such quality as to be accurate under normal operating
						conditions.
(b) Time switches owned
						by the electric company for controlling service to customers' facilities shall
						be inspected or operation observed periodically and adjusted if necessary, and
						shall also be adjusted upon complaint when found to be in error.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Utilization and Control Equipment › Section 16-11-113 - Frequency

Current through July 10, 2024
Alternating current service under normal conditions
						  shall be supplied at sixty cycles per second and under normal conditions the
						  deviation shall not exceed one per cent.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Utilization and Control Equipment › Section 16-11-114 - Standard voltage

Current through July 10, 2024
Every electric company shall adopt a standard nominal
						  voltage or standard nominal voltage conforming to modern usage, as may be
						  required by the design if its distribution system for its entire service area
						  or for each of the several areas into which the distribution system or systems
						  may be divided. The voltage maintained at the electric company's service
						  terminals, as installed for each customer, shall be reasonably constant within
						  the limits set forth in section
						  16-11-115.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Utilization and Control Equipment › Section 16-11-115 - Voltage variations

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) For service
						rendered principally for residential or commercial purposes, the voltage
						variation shall not exceed an upper limit as low as practically possible, not
						to exceed a maximum of three per cent above or five percent below standard
						voltage. Voltage excursions above the upper limit shall not exceed one minute.
						Providing voltage below the lower limit shall be limited in extent, frequency
						and duration. Corrective action shall be promptly taken whenever deviations
						result from other than temporary conditions. Temporary conditions, such as
						automatic switching to supply interrupted feeders, should not exceed 24 hours
						where practical. American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard c84-1
						shall be used to determine the lowest temporary voltage excursions
						permissible.
(b) For service
						rendered under contracts principally for power purposes the normal variation in
						voltage shall not exceed ten per cent above or ten per cent below the standard
						for any period longer than one minute.
(c) Any electric company may furnish service
						under conditions of greater voltage variations than that prescribed in the
						foregoing if specifically provided for by contract filed with the
						authority.
(d) Where the electric
						company's distribution facilities supplying customers are reasonably adequate
						to carry the loads normally imposed, the utility may require that the operating
						characteristics of utilization equipment shall not cause objectionable voltage
						fluctuations or other adverse effects.
(e) When an electric company is unable to
						conform a portion of its distribution system to comply with subsection (a)
						above, said company may petition the authority for an exemption to said
						subsection, setting forth the reasons why it is unable to comply. For good
						cause shown, the authority may grant such exemption under such terms and
						conditions as it deems reasonable.
(f) Electric companies shall commence
						implementation of section
						16-11-115(a)
						upon the effective date of these regulations, and shall have completed said
						implementation throughout their respective systems or requested appropriate
						exemptions authorized by section
						15-11-115(e)
						prior to October 1, 1979.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Points of Delivery › Section 16-11-116 - Establishment of delivery point

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Every electric
						company shall establish each point of delivery as an independent customer and
						shall calculate the amount of the bill accordingly. Any other arrangement shall
						require prior approval of the commission.
(b) Service to a room or group of rooms which
						regularly separate cooking facilities shall be considered as service to a
						separate apartment for metering and billing purposes.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Points of Delivery › Section 16-11-117 - Meter location

Current through July 10, 2024
Each electric company may prescribe rules for the
						  location of meters. All meters shall be in an accessible location. When located
						  inside a building, the meter shall be installed as near as practicable to the
						  point of entrance of the service, be in a clean, dry, safe place and be
						  supported in such a manner as to be reasonably free from damage. When located
						  outside a building, meters shall be installed in a practicable location and
						  supported in such a manner as to be reasonably free from
						  damage.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Metering › Section 16-11-118 - Measurement

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) All electricity sold to customers shall
						be measured by commercially acceptable measuring devices owned and maintained
						by the electric company, except where it is impracticable to measure certain
						loads.
(b) Every reasonable effort
						shall be made to measure at one point all the electrical quantities necessary
						for billing a customer under a given rate.
(c) Metering facilities located where energy
						may flow in either direction and where the quantities measured are used for
						billing purposes shall consist of meters equipped with ratchets or other
						devices to prevent reverse registration and be so connected as to record energy
						flow in each direction.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Metering › Section 16-11-119 - Multipliers and test constants

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Meters
						operating in conjunction with instrument transformers shall have the multiplier
						plainly marked on the meters or otherwise suitably marked.
(b) The watthour constant for the meter
						itself shall be on all watthour meters.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Metering › Section 16-11-120 - Accuracy of watthour meters

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A watthour
						meter that has an incorrect register constant, test constant, gear ratio to
						dial train, or which creeps (that is, registers on no load), shall not be
						placed in service or allowed to remain in service without adjustment and
						correction after knowledge of the defect.
(b) The average meter error for a watthour
						meter shall not be in excess of one per cent at unity power factor and, in the
						case of polyphase meters, the elements shall be in balance within two per cent
						at one hundred per cent load and unity power factor. When tested in the shop,
						the error of polyphase meters shall not be in excess of two per cent at one
						hundred per cent load and fifty per cent lagging power factor.
(c) Whenever a test of a watthour meter shows
						the average error to be in excess of one per cent, or, in the case of polyphase
						meter, the elements are not balanced within two per cent at one hundred per
						cent load and unity power factor, the meter shall be removed from service or
						adjusted.
(d) For the purpose of
						pre-installation, installation, complaint, periodic or evaluation tests, the
						average error shall be determined as follows:
(1) The error at light load, at approximately
						ten per cent of the rated current (test amperes) specified for the
						meter;
(2) the error at heavy load,
						at approximately one hundred per cent of the rated current (test amperes)
						specified for the meter;
(3) the
						average error of the meter shall then be computed by taking one-fifth of the
						algebraic sum of the error at light load and four times the error at heavy
						load.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Metering › Section 16-11-121 - Accuracy of demand meters

Current through July 10, 2024
All demand meters shall be accurate to within plus or
						  minus two per cent of full scale. The timing element shall be accurate to
						  within plus or minus two percent.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Metering › Section 16-11-122 - Instrument transformers

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Meters used in
						conjunction with instrument transformers shall be adjusted so that the overall
						accuracies will come within the limits specified in subsections (a), (b) and
						(c) of section
						16-11-120
						and section
						16-11-121.
(b) Meters installed with instrument
						transformers may be tested independently of such transformers, provided the
						electric company applies the corrections indicated by a test certificate
						exhibiting the characteristics of the type of transformers used and
						guaranteeing the limits of deviation of individual transformers from the
						average characteristics of the type; otherwise the meters and transformers
						shall be verified as a measuring unit.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Testing-Facilities › Section 16-11-123 - Laboratories

Current through July 10, 2024
Each electric company shall maintain adequate
						  laboratories, meter testing shops, secondary standards, instruments and
						  facilities to determine the accuracy of meters and measuring devices generally
						  used by the electric company in rendering service. An electric company may,
						  however, have all or part of the required tests made or its portable testing
						  equipment checked by another electric company or agency approved by the
						  commission as having adequate testing equipment.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Testing-Facilities › Section 16-11-124 - Equipment required

Current through July 10, 2024
Each electric company shall maintain (1) one or more
						  portable rotating standards of capacity and voltage range adequate to test all
						  watthour meters used by the electric company; (2) portable indicating
						  instruments of such various types as are required to determine the accuracy of
						  instruments used by the electric company and these instruments shall be checked
						  periodically; (3) one or more master standards to check rotating standards used
						  for testing watthour meters. Each master standard shall be kept permanently at
						  one location and not used for field work.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Testing-Facilities › Section 16-11-125 - Test standards

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each electric
						company, upon notification, shall submit to the commission's standards
						laboratory for checking for accuracy, one of its master rotating standards at
						least once in each year.
(b) Master
						watthour meter standards shall not be used to check or calibrate working
						standards unless the master standard has been checked, and adjusted if
						necessary, within the preceding twelve months. Each master standard watthour
						meter shall have a calibration record available and a history card.
(c) Portable indicating instruments shall be
						checked, in a laboratory approved by the commission, and adjusted if necessary,
						at least once a year. A historical record shall be kept of such checks and
						adjustments.
(d) All working
						rotating standards when regularly used shall be compared with a master standard
						at frequent intervals. Standards infrequently used shall be compared with a
						master standard before they are used.
(e) Working rotating standards shall be
						adjusted, when necessary, and a record shall be kept for each
						instrument.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Special › Section 16-11-126 - Customer request

Current through July 10, 2024
Every electric company shall, upon written request of a
						  customer and, if he so desires, in his presence or that of his authorized
						  representative, make a test of the accuracy of the meter in use at his
						  premises; provided the meter has not been verified by the electric company
						  within the period of one year previous to such request, and provided the
						  customer shall agree to abide by the results of such test as the basis for any
						  adjustment of disputed charges. Upon request by a customer, or upon an order
						  for a meter test made by the department, the company shall notify the customer,
						  in writing and within one week of the request for the meter test, that he, or
						  his authorized representative, has the right to be present at the meter test.
						  If said customer, or his authorized representative, desires to be present at
						  the meter test, the customer or his authorized representative shall contact the
						  company within 10 (ten) days of the written notification to arrange to be
						  present at the test. Upon such notification, the company shall schedule a meter
						  test, at a time during the normal operating hours of the company, which is
						  convenient to both the customer, or his authorized representative, and the
						  company, as soon as possible. A written report of the results of the test shall
						  be furnished the customer by the electric company.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Special › Section 16-11-127 - Commission directive

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) In accordance
						with section
						16-259 of
						the general statutes the commission, upon request, will cause to be tested for
						accuracy the electric meter on a customer's premises.
(b) An electric company, after notification
						by the commission that a test is to be made pursuant to the provisions of said
						section
						16-259,
						shall not adjust, disturb or remove the meter in question, except as directed
						by the authorized representative of the commission.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Regular › Section 16-11-128 - Location of tests

Current through July 10, 2024
Each electric company shall conduct all required tests
						  of meters at the permanent location of the meter on the customer's premises
						  except that the commission may authorize that such tests be performed in the
						  company's shop or in a mobile unit, following an inspection of such facilities
						  by the commission's engineering staff to insure their adequacy to perform such
						  tests.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Regular › Section 16-11-129 - Installation test

Current through July 10, 2024
Each electric company shall have each watt-hour meter
						  checked for accuracy within sixty days of its installation, except that this
						  installation test shall not be required for meters of verified
						  accuracy.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Regular › Section 16-11-130 - Periodic tests

Current through July 10, 2024
All watthour meters installed on customers' premises
						  shall be tested periodically in conformity with the most recent ANSI Code.
						  Meter test data shall be summarized and furnished annually to the Department
						  upon Department prescribed forms. The Department may permit an electric company
						  which maintains a high degree of meter accuracy, as indicated by its periodic
						  test records, to extend the period between tests or to adopt a practice of
						  selective testing or of testing a statistically adequate sample of all meters
						  on lines.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Regular › Section 16-11-131 - Meter records

Current through July 10, 2024
Meter records shall be kept and systematically
						  arranged, indicating the date of purchase of each meter, its size or capacity
						  rating and the date and place of the latest installation or removal. These
						  records shall be preserved for the life of the
						  meter.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Regular › Section 16-11-132 - Meter test records

Current through July 10, 2024
Meter test records shall be preserved of every meter
						  test, indicating the information necessary for identifying the meter, the
						  reading of the meter just prior to the test, the computed accuracy of
						  registration both as found and as left, together with the data taken at the
						  time of the test to permit the convenient checking of the methods employed and
						  of the computations leading to the result. These records shall be preserved for
						  two years or until a new periodic test record has been
						  obtained.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Meter Tests-Regular › Section 16-11-133 - Types of meters

Current through July 10, 2024
Every electric company shall report to the commission
						  each year the quantity of each make and type of meter in service. This report
						  may be included with the commission prescribed forms pertaining to periodic
						  tests as required by section
						  16-11-130.
						  Whenever any new make or type of meter is placed in service, a prompt report
						  and description shall be furnished to the
						  commission.
Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › 11 - Gas Companies Operating Within the State of Connecticut › Part III - QUALITY CONTROLEquipment, Standards, Records and Reports › Code of Electrical Standards and Specifications › Part I - General Practices and Operation of Electrical Systems › Standard Practices › Section 16-11-134 - Acceptable codes

Current through July 10, 2024
The commission recognizes the provisions of the
						  National Electrical Safety Code and the National Electrical Code in effect from
						  time to time as minimum requirements and recommends the same as a guide to good
						  practice for the installation, maintenance and operation of electrical
						  facilities in all cases not governed by specific commission orders and the
						  provisions of this code as contained herein.