Public Service Commission
Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Public Utility Regulation Fund - Cap [SB-676]
Increasing, from 0.17% to 0.25%, the maximum that may be charged to certain public service companies for a State fiscal year to reimburse the Public Service Commission for certain costs and expenses.
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Gettr Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Residential Electricity and Gas Supply Billing Information - Reports [SB-686]
Requiring certain persons to submit to the Public Service Commission beginning July 1, 2021, monthly reports containing detailed billing information on the supply of electricity and gas to certain residential customers; requiring certain initial reports to include information from the previous 12 months; providing for the required contents of each report; requiring certain information to be organized by low-income customers and all other customers; requiring the Commission to make each report available to certain persons; etc.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Excluding certain wholesale electric generating facilities from PSC regulation [SB-684]
Excluding certain wholesale electric generating facilities from PSC regulation
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electricity Suppliers and Gas Suppliers - Consumer Protections [SB-681]
Authorizing the Office of People's Counsel to investigate and request certain documents from an electricity supplier or a gas supplier under certain circumstances; requiring the Office of People's Counsel to have a reasonable basis before initiating a certain investigation; requiring an electricity supplier or a gas supplier to provide certain written responses and documents to the Office of People's Counsel under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electricity and Gas - Energy Suppliers - Assisted Customers [SB-685]
Prohibiting, with a certain exception, a retail electricity or natural gas supplier from knowingly enrolling a certain residential customer with or submitting an enrollment to change the customer's electricity supplier to a competitive supplier if the customer had received certain financial assistance in the preceding 12 months; requiring an electric company to confirm certain matters in its records at a certain time; requiring an electric company to verify a customer's status at a certain time; etc.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Exempting contract and common carrier laws for certain vehicles [SB-686]
Exempting contract and common carrier laws for certain vehicles
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Utility Regulation - Consideration of Climate and Labor [SB-656]
Requiring the Secretary of the Environment to prepare a certain recommendation in connection with certain issues considered by the Public Service Commission; requiring the Secretary of Natural Resources to incorporate an evaluation of the impact of certain electric power plants on climate change into the Power Plant Research Program; requiring the Commission to consider the maintenance of fair and stable labor standards and the protection of the global climate in supervising and regulating certain public service companies; etc.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Eliminating the sunset and legislative review provisions relating to common carriers by motor vehicles [HB-4657]
Eliminating the sunset and legislative review provisions relating to common carriers by motor vehicles
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Electricity and Gas Suppliers - Training and Educational Program [SB-603]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to develop a training and educational program for certain licensed energy suppliers; requiring the Commission to develop the program in consultation with interested stakeholders, including electricity suppliers and gas suppliers; requiring designated representatives to demonstrate a thorough understanding of certain Commission regulations; requiring the Commission to conduct an examination at the conclusion of training and provide certification on a satisfactory score; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electricity - Considerations for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and Overhead Transmission Lines [SB-578]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to take final action on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity only after due consideration certain factors including whether the applicant's design prioritizes the use or upgrading of existing infrastructure; prohibiting the construction of an overhead transmission line that is aligned with and within 1 mile of a conservation easement unless there is a certain showing of good cause; and providing for the prospective application of the Act.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electricity - Considerations for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and Overhead Transmission Lines [SB-578]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to take final action on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity only after due consideration certain factors including whether the applicant's design prioritizes the use or upgrading of existing infrastructure; prohibiting the construction of an overhead transmission line that is aligned with and within 1 mile of a conservation easement unless there is a certain showing of good cause; and providing for the prospective application of the Act.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber [HB-4619]
Approving plans proposed by electric utilities to install middle-mile broadband fiber
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Preservation of Environmental Quality and the Climate [SB-538]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to give due consideration to the effect of a generating station, overhead transmission line, or qualified generator lead line on the preservation of environmental quality and the climate before taking final action on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Member-Regulated Cooperatives - Establishment (Rural Broadband for the Eastern Shore Act of 2020) [SB-540]
Establishing a process for a cooperative to operate as a member-regulated cooperative in a certain area; specifying that the Public Service Commission does not have jurisdiction over a member-regulated cooperative, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting a member-regulated cooperative from exercising a certain power of condemnation for the sole purpose of providing broadband Internet service; specifying certain provisions of law that apply to a member-regulated cooperative; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Electric Companies and Electric Cooperatives - Customer Identification [SB-529]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations requiring electric companies and electric cooperatives to adopt a method for an electricity supplier enrolling a certain customer to provide certain information to adequately identify the customer without using the customer's account number; requiring the regulations to require that a certain customer enrolling with an electricity supplier may offer certain information as proof of identity under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Public Service Commission - Electric Companies and Electric Cooperatives - Customer Identification [SB-529]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations requiring electric companies and electric cooperatives to adopt a method for an electricity supplier enrolling a certain customer to provide certain information to adequately identify the customer without using the customer's account number; requiring the regulations to require that a certain customer enrolling with an electricity supplier may offer certain information as proof of identity under certain circumstances; etc.
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West Virginia 2020 Regular Session
Modernizing the Public Service Commission's regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities [HB-4587]
Modernizing the Public Service Commission's regulation of solid waste motor carriers and solid waste facilities
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Utah 2020 General Session
Clean and Renewable Energy Requirement Amendments [HB-194]
Clean and Renewable Energy Requirement Amendments
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Utah 2020 General Session
Clean and Renewable Energy Requirement Amendments [HB-194]
Clean and Renewable Energy Requirement Amendments
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Electric Industry - Community Choice Energy - Pilot Program [HB-561]
Applying certain laws regarding net energy metering and community solar generating systems to customers served by a community choice aggregator; altering the circumstances under which counties and municipal corporations may act as an aggregator; establishing a certain Community Choice Aggregator Pilot Program; establishing a process by which, beginning on October 1, 2022, a certain county may form a community choice aggregator; requiring a certain county to develop a plan and give notice of a certain aggregation plan; etc.