Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 62 - NATURAL GAS SUPPLY CUSTOMER CHOICE › Subchapter G - NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES AND COMPETITION › Section 62.224 - POR programs

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Program design.
(1) An NGDC
					 may purchase accounts receivable from licensed NGSs which operate on the NGDC
					 system and who wish to sell their receivables.
(2) An NGS electing to sell its receivables
					 to an NGDC shall include its accounts receivables related to choice residential
					 and small business basic services in the POR program.
(3) An NGS shall only sell receivables
					 associated with basic services and may not sell other receivables related to
					 products and services sold in relation to basic services or in addition to
					 basic services to the NGDC's POR program. The NGS shall certify that charges do
					 not include receivables for other products or services.
(4) To qualify for participation in an NGDC's
					 POR program, an NGS shall use consolidated billing from the NGDC unless the
					 NGDC's consolidated billing system cannot reasonably accommodate the NGS's
					 billings for basic services.
(5) An
					 NGDC's POR program shall use a discount rate designed to reflect the NGDC's
					 actual uncollectible rate for supply service customers and the incremental
					 costs associated with the development, implementation and administration of the
					 POR program.
(6) The POR discount
					 rate must account for risk and cost differences among the NGDC's customer
					 classes.
(7) POR programs must, at
					 a minimum, include receivables on residential and small business customer
					 accounts.
(8) When an NGDC
					 purchases accounts receivables from an NGS through a Commission-approved POR
					 program and the accounts receivables are comprised only of charges for basic
					 services, the NGDC may terminate service to customers for failure to pay NGS
					 gas supply charges.
(9) To ensure
					 that an NGDC's affiliated suppliers do not receive an advantage over
					 nonaffiliated suppliers, a POR program shall be designed and implemented in
					 accordance with §
												§
												62.141 and
					 62.142 (relating to standards of
					 conduct).
(10) An NGDC POR program
					 must be included in a supplier coordination tariff, as defined by Commission
					 rules, regulations and orders, and approved by the Commission prior to
					 implementation.
(11) To ensure that
					 the POR discount rate accurately reflects its program costs, an NGDC shall
					 track its POR program costs and NGS basic service collections experience. If
					 the discount rate no longer reasonably compensates the NGDC for its POR program
					 costs and collections experience, the NGDC shall file an update to the POR
					 discount rate with the Commission.
(12) An NGS participating in an NGDC's POR
					 program may separately bill a customer for a specific service or product if
					 that service or product does not meet the definition of basic natural gas
					 supply service.
(13) An NGS
					 participating in an NGDC's POR program shall accept the customers responding to
					 an offer included in the POR program without performing a credit check or
					 requiring an additional security deposit from the customer.