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Parties Filed Comments In Response To PURA’s Inquiry As To “Any Additional Conditions, Not Currently Required By The State Of Connecticut, That Should Be Placed On New Customer Supplier Contracts Between Licensed Electric Suppliers And Residential Hardship Customers”

Dockets: 18-06-02RE02

Supplier group REAL noted that while it is not filing comments it reserves its right to file timely reply comments in response to any comments filed in this proceeding.

OCC said “Throughout this phase of the docket, discovery has uncovered issues regarding hardship customers’ contracts with REC-only suppliers, hardship customers being part of incidental residential accounts, electric distribution company costs, and the content of supplier contracts. In its brief, OCC will address conditions necessary regarding these issues and will reply to any comments on these and other topics in the reply comments due on the same date as briefs.”

Briefs in this proceeding are due by January 9, 2025. 

18-06-02RE02  (Opened 07/03/2023)
Proceeding to determine the “appropriate limitations” that should be placed on all customer contracts with retail electric suppliers, following a new state law which allows hardship customers (i.e., low-income customers) to shop for their retail electric supplier as long the supplier contact offered to the low-income customers is “at or below the standard service rate for the duration of the contracts.”