§812 Public-service licensee; regulations by State or by commission as to service, rates, charges, etc.

Summary

Public-service licensees — public-service companies or anyone running a power project that sells or uses power for public service — must follow reasonable state rules about the service they provide, and about rates and payments, as set by the state agency that has authority where the service is given or the rate is charged. If a State has not created an agency to do that work, then the commission may step in on a complaint or on its own and regulate those matters until the State sets up its own authority. The commission’s control ends for any specific issue as soon as the State provides its own authority for that issue.