Regulator Sets New Process For Retail Suppliers To File Annual Hardship Reports
February 07,2019
The Connecticut PURA has revised the manner in which retail electric suppliers shall file reports required by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-262c(c).
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-262c(c) requires each electric distribution and gas company, electric supplier and municipal utility shall, not later than December first, annually, submit a report to the authority and the General Assembly indicating various data regarding hardship and energy assistance customers.
Currently, such reports are filed with the Authority as undocketed correspondence in the Authority’s database or in individual suppliers’ licensing dockets.
"The Authority finds that filing the reports solely in the undocketed database or in a supplier’s licensing docket makes it difficult for the public to access and review this information that the legislature wished to make publicly-accesible [sic]," PURA said
The Authority therefore ordered that, beginning February 15, 2019, all reports required by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-262c(c) be filed in the new docket Docket No. 18-12-12.
However, electric suppliers, "also should continue to file their reports in their licensing docket in addition to filing them in the instant docket [18-12-12]," PURA ordered
"No later than February 15, 2019, all reports required by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-262c(c) shall be filed in the instant docket [18-12-12]. Electric suppliers filing such reports shall file them in the instant docket and their original licensing dockets," PURA directed