Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) As
used in this rule:
(a) "Energy assistance
recipient" means a residential customer who has received bill payment
assistance with an energy bill from any federal, state, ratepayer-funded, or
utility-supported bill payment assistance fund or program at least once within
the past 12 months.
(b)
"Companywide" means the geographic area served by a particular energy utility
within the state of Oregon.
(c)
"Local service area" means a smaller geographic unit within an energy utility's
companywide service area, such as zip code, city, county, or other similar
unit.
(2) Each energy
utility must file a quarterly report with the Commission detailing the number
of residential and small commercial disconnections for non-payment and
subsequent reconnections as prescribed in this rule. An electronic report must
be filed in a text-searchable Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or .pdf (Adobe
Acrobat) format.
(a) For quarterly reporting
purposes, the following four time periods apply: February 1 to April 30, May 1
to July 31, August 1 to October 31, and November 1 to January 31.
(b) Each energy utility must file its initial
quarterly report following the first full quarter after the effective date of
this rule, unless an alternative initial reporting date is set for the utility
by the Commission's Consumer Services Section.
(c) The energy utility must file a quarterly
report as required under this rule within 20 days of the end of each reporting
period.
(3) The quarterly
report must provide the following information for each month within the quarter
for an energy utility's residential accounts:
(a) On a companywide basis:
(A) Number of active residential and small
commercial accounts;
(B) Number of
service disconnections for non-payment;
(C) Percentage of accounts with service
disconnections for non-payment;
(D)
Number of service disconnections for non-payment on energy assistance recipient
accounts;
(E) Number of service
disconnections for non-payment on medical certificate holder
accounts;
(F) Number of service
disconnections reported under both paragraph (D) and paragraph (E) above,
i.e., disconnections for non-payment on medical certificate
holder accounts that are also energy assistance recipient accounts;
(G) Number of service reconnections following
a disconnection for non-payment on the same day or next calendar day following
disconnection (Days 0-1); and
(H)
Number of service reconnections following a disconnection for non-payment that
occur more than one day and within 7 calendar days following disconnection
(Days 2-7).
(b) For each
local service area within the companywide area used for reporting:
(A) Number of active residential and small
commercial accounts;
(B) Number of
service disconnections for non-payment;
(C) Number of service disconnections for
non-payment on energy assistance recipient accounts;
(D) Number of service disconnections for
non-payment on emergency medical certificate holder accounts;
(E) Number of service disconnections reported
under both paragraph (C) and paragraph (D) above, i.e.,
disconnections for non-payment on medical certificate holder accounts that are
also energy assistance recipient accounts; and
(F) Number of days on which the energy
utility was required to impose a moratorium on service disconnection for severe
weather per OAR 860-021-0407.
(c) Zip codes must be used to identify a
local service area unless a different unit is pre-approved by the Commission's
Consumer Services Section for a utility's use in its reporting under this
rule.
(4) Upon request of
the Commission's Consumer Services Section, when made within one year of the
date a quarterly report is filed with the Commission, the energy utility must
provide a breakdown by zip code of the of service disconnection data reported
under section (3) of this rule.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
756.060
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
756.040
