Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 815 - Division of Public Utilities and Carriers › Chapter 30 - Electric Utilities › Subchapter 05 - Non-regulated Power Producers › Part 2 - Nonregulated Power Producer Consumer Bill of Rights (815-RICR-30-05-2) › Section 815-RICR-30-05-2.4 - Consumer Information Requirements

Current through June 14, 2024
A. All nonregulated
				  power producers and electric distribution companies shall adopt a standard
				  billing format for residential customers to better enable such residential
				  customers to compare pricing policies and charges of nonregulated power
				  producers to the standard offer service rate approved by the Commission for the
				  customer's electric distribution company. The standard billing format shall
				  include all of the information set out §§
										2.4(B)(1)   and/or (2) of this
				  Part, below, as appropriate, in the order specified below.
B. The standard billing format adopted herein
				  requires that all electrical distribution companies and nonregulated power
				  producers include the following information upon the bill or statements they
				  provide to their customers in the order specified below:
1. Charges for electricity supplied/used.
				  Every company who shall charge for the use of electricity furnished to any
				  house, building, tenement or estate shall conspicuously display upon the bill
				  or statement for such electricity charges for any customer, all of the
				  information required by R.I. Gen. Laws §
											39-3-37.2, in the order specified
				  therein.
2. Charges for
				  distribution of electricity. Every electric distribution company which shall
				  charge for the distribution of electricity to any house, building, tenement or
				  estate shall conspicuously display upon the bill or statement for such electric
				  distribution charges for any customer, all of the information required by R.I.
				  Gen. Laws §
											39-3-37.3, in the order specified
				  therein.
3. Standard offer service
				  price. In addition to the data set out above, the bill or statement must
				  provide customers with basic information regarding the standard-offer service
				  price for comparison purposes.
a. Electric
				  distribution company requirements. The electric distribution company shall
				  provide a single standard offer service price for comparison purposes that sets
				  out the total commodity charges which all of its supply/commodity customers
				  would be expected to pay currently. The standard offer service price, expressed
				  as a cost per kilowatt hour consumed, will be the sum of the base rate,
				  capacity cost adjustment fuel adjustment cost conservation charges (including
				  but not limited to any renewable energy charges, and all other costs, charges
				  or fees, relating directly to the cost of procuring the commodity. The bill or
				  statement shall list all of the component costs of the standard offer service
				  price. The electric distribution company bill or statement shall also specify
				  the date of the next expected standard offer service price rate change, the
				  projected new standard offer service price following that rate change, and the
				  date by which a customer's nonregulated power producer must initiate the
				  transfer of service in order for the transfer to be complete by the next meter
				  read date.
b. Nonregulated power
				  producer requirements. The nonregulated power producer shall provide a single
				  service price calculated in a manner similar to that required above for the
				  electric distribution company that provides the customer with a single
				  supply/commodity cost for the customer to compare directly with the single
				  standard offer service price provided by the electric distribution
				  company.
c. Standard-offer service
				  price to compare. Each bill provided to the customer, whether by a distribution
				  company or by a nonregulated power producer, shall include the distribution
				  company's standard-offer service price for providing electricity to compare
				  with the date of the next expected standard-offer rate change and the date by
				  which a customer's nonregulated power producer must initiate the transfer of
				  service in order for the transfer to be complete by the next meter read date.
d. Variable or time-of-use
				  standard-offer service rate. Standard-offer service rates shall not be variable
				  or time-of-use rates.
4. Customer right to request separate bills
				  from nonregulated power producers. The electric distribution company shall
				  issue a single bill for electric service to all customers in its service
				  territory. However, customers of nonregulated power producers may request the
				  nonregulated power producers to provide separate bills for electricity
				  supply.