Title 16, Title 16: Public Service Companies

Sec. 16-245l. Systems benefits charge. Determination by authority of amount and how applied to customers. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall establish and each electric distribution company shall collect a systems benefits charge to be imposed against all end use…

Sec. 16-245ll. Clean energy bonds. (a) The Connecticut Green Bank may issue clean energy bonds secured in whole or in part by the assets of, and assessment of charges and other receipts deposited into, the Clean Energy Fund established pursuant to section 16-245n. The clean energ…

Sec. 16-245m. Energy Conservation Management Board. Conservation and Load Management Plan. (a)(1) Repealed by P.A. 18-50, S. 32. (2) Repealed by P.A. 14-134, S. 130. (3) Repealed by P.A. 11-61, S. 187. (b) Repealed by P.A. 18-50, S. 32. (c) The Commissioner of Energy and Environm…

Sec. 16-245mm. Special capital reserve funds. (a) For purposes of this section, “required minimum capital reserve” means the maximum amount permitted to be deposited in a special capital reserve fund by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal r…

Sec. 16-245n. Connecticut Green Bank. Charge assessed against electric customers. Clean Energy Fund. Environmental Infrastructure Fund. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Carbon offsets” means any activity that compensates for the emission of carbon dioxide or other greenhous…

Sec. 16-245nn. Residential solar photovoltaic system permit. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Residential solar photovoltaic system” means equipment and devices that have the primary purpose of collecting solar energy and generating electricity by photovoltaic effect, have a nam…

Sec. 16-245o. Use of customer information. Promotional inserts in electric bills prohibited. Standard form re contract terms and conditions. Procedures for entering, renewing and terminating service contracts. Rate increase disclosures. Marketing and advertising disclosures. Pena…

Sec. 16-245p. Information re electric supplier and electric distribution company to be provided to customers. (a) An electric supplier and an electric distribution company providing standard service or back-up electric generation service, pursuant to section 16-244c, shall submit…

Sec. 16-245q. Changing electric suppliers. A customer may change his electric supplier, as defined in section 16-1, at any time. The electric distribution company, as defined in said section 16-1, and electric supplier may each charge a reasonable fee, as approved by the Public U…

Sec. 16-245r. Discrimination by electric suppliers prohibited. No electric supplier, as defined in section 16-1, shall refuse to provide electric generation services to, or refuse to negotiate to provide such services to any customer because of age, race, creed, color, national o…

Sec. 16-245s. Switching electric suppliers; procedures; penalties; regulations. (a) No electric distribution company shall submit or execute a change in a customer's selection of an electric supplier unless the change has been confirmed by one of the following: (1) An independent…

Sec. 16-245t. Complaints to authority re electric suppliers; procedures; remedies. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall be responsible for receiving and acting upon customer inquiries and complaints regarding electric suppliers, as defined in section 16-1. The auth…

Sec. 16-245u. Unfair and discriminatory conduct and unfair trade practices in electric market prohibited. Investigations. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall monitor the market for electric generation services and electric distribution services to end use customer…

Sec. 16-245v. List of displaced electric utility employees to be provided to distribution companies and electric suppliers. Section 16-245v is repealed, effective June 6, 2014. (P.A. 98-28, S. 46, 117; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 130.)

Sec. 16-245w. Fee to be paid by self-generation facilities in lieu of certain assessments; study by authority. (a) As used in this section, “self-generation facility” means a facility that generates electricity, is owned or operated by an entity other than an electric distributio…

Sec. 16-245x. Monitoring and reporting by authority of electric rates of each customer class. Action to minimize rate differential. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, in consultation with the Office of Consumer Counsel, monitor on an on-going basis the state of …

Sec. 16-245y. Annual reporting re status of electric deregulation. (a) Not later than October 1, 1999, and annually thereafter, each electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, shall report to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority its system average interruptio…

Sec. 16-245z. Internet links to Energy Star program. Not later than October 1, 2005, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Energy Conservation Management Board, established in section 16-245m, shall establish links on their Internet web sites to the Energy…

Sec. 16-246. Other companies which may sell electricity. Any corporation authorized to construct and maintain dams or sites on any stream and to own and operate mills and manufacturing plants and to utilize the power generated by it in the operation of such plants in any town in …

Sec. 16-246a. Definitions. Section 16-246a is repealed, effective June 6, 2014. (February, 1965, P.A. 124, S. 1; P.A. 73-442, S. 8, 9; P.A. 14-134, S. 130.)

Secs. 16-246b to 16-246d. Area within which domestic company may generate and transmit electric energy. Area within which foreign electric company may generate and transmit electric energy. Joint ownership of facility; waiver of right to petition. Sections 16-246b to 16-246d, inc…

Sec. 16-246e. Procurement and sale by authority of electric power capacity and power output from out-of-state producers. Approval by Governor. (a) The Governor may designate the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority as the agent of the state, subject only to the limitation under …

Sec. 16-246f. Electric company emergency assistance. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Assistance” means any aid or support provided, or any actions taken by a domestic electric company for or on behalf of another domestic electric company or by a foreign electric company for or …

Sec. 16-246g. Pilot program for electric generation. Section 16-246g is repealed, effective October 1, 2013. (P.A. 07-242, S. 103; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-209, S. 20.)

Sec. 16-247. Foreign telephone companies. Section 16-247 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 5659; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 109, 348; P.A. 85-187, S. 13, 15.)

Sec. 16-247a. Goals of the state. Definitions. (a) Due to the following: Affordable, high quality telecommunications services that meet the needs of individuals and businesses in the state are necessary and vital to the welfare and development of our society; the efficient provis…

Sec. 16-247b. Unbundling of telephone company's network, services and functions. Access to telephone company's telecommunications services, functions and unbundled network elements. Rates for competitive or emerging competitive service. Subsidization prohibited. (a) On petition o…

Sec. 16-247c. Provision of intrastate telecommunications services. Civil penalty. Competition. (a) No person shall provide intrastate telecommunications services, except for private telecommunications service, commercial mobile telecommunications service to the extent regulated b…

Sec. 16-247d. Biennial reports on competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service. Plan for implementing competition. General Assembly approval required. Section 16-247d is repealed. (P.A. 85-187, S. 4, 15; P.A. 87-415, S. 12, 13.)

Sec. 16-247e. Basic telecommunications services. Lifeline and telecommunications relay service programs. Universal service program. (a) In order to ensure the universal availability of affordable, high quality telecommunications services to all residents and businesses throughout…

Sec. 16-247f. Regulation of telecommunication services: Initial classifications, reclassifications, tariffs, exemption from filing tariff. (a) The authority shall regulate the provision of telecommunications services in the state in a manner designed to foster competition and pro…

Sec. 16-247g. Certificate of public convenience and necessity for intrastate telecommunications services: Application, requirements, suspension, revocation. Fees. Obligation to serve. (a)(1) Any person may apply to the authority for an initial certificate of public convenience an…

Sec. 16-247h. Use of public right-of-way for provision of intrastate telecommunications service. The authority shall authorize any certified telecommunications provider to install, maintain, operate, manage or control poles, wires, conduits or other fixtures under or over any pub…

Sec. 16-247i. Telecommunications service and regulation status report. Section 16-247i is repealed, effective June 2, 2016. (P.A. 87-415, S. 6, 13; P.A. 94-83, S. 10, 16; P.A. 06-144, S. 2; P.A. 13-5, S. 15; P.A. 16-101, S. 5.)

Sec. 16-247j. Regulations. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall adopt such regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, as necessary to carry out the provisions of section 16-247c and sections 16-247f to 16-247h, inclusive. (P.A. 87-415, S. 9, 13; P.A.…

Sec. 16-247k. Alternative forms of regulation for telephone companies: Plan requirements, monitoring period, modification. (a) The authority may, and is encouraged to, implement an alternative form of regulation, including, but not limited to, price indexing, price regulation, co…

Sec. 16-247l. Access by certified telecommunications providers to occupied buildings: Service, wiring, compensation, regulations, civil penalty. (a) As used in this section, “occupied building” means a building or a part of a building which is rented, leased, hired out, arranged …

Sec. 16-247m. Withdrawal by telephone company of retail telecommunications service. Applications. (a) On and after July 1, 2001, a telephone company may apply to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to withdraw from the retail provision of a telecommunications service, provi…

Sec. 16-247n. Certification of telephone company's operations support systems interface. Rates. Proceedings. (a) The authority shall (1) not later than September 1, 1999, require each telephone company serving seventy-five thousand or more retail customers to release complete and…

Sec. 16-247o. Consultant to test operations support systems interface. Section 16-247o is repealed, effective June 6, 2014. (P.A. 99-222, S. 6, 19; P.A. 00-53, S. 5; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 130.)

Sec. 16-247p. Quality-of-service standards. Performance standards. (a) Not later than April 1, 2000, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, by regulations adopted pursuant to chapter 54, establish quality-of-service standards that shall apply to all telephone companies …

Sec. 16-247q. Education outreach program for telecommunications competition, scope. Consumer Education Advisory Council established. Section 16-247q is repealed, effective July 1, 2011. (P.A. 99-222, S. 8, 19; P.A. 00-53, S. 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 140.)

Sec. 16-247r. Discrimination by telephone companies and certified telecommunications providers prohibited. No telephone company or certified telecommunications provider, as defined in section 16-1, shall refuse to provide telecommunications services to, or refuse to negotiate to …

Sec. 16-247s. Directory assistance database. Disclosure and distribution of cellular mobile telephone numbers. (a) For purposes of this section, “carrier” means a cellular mobile telephone carrier, a reseller of service provided by a cellular mobile telephone carrier or a retaile…

Sec. 16-247t. Customer inquiries and complaints regarding cellular mobile telephone service. (a) For purposes of this section, “carrier” means a cellular mobile telephone carrier or a reseller of service provided by a cellular mobile telephone carrier. (b) The Public Utilities Re…

Sec. 16-247u. Unauthorized procurement and sale of telephone records. Definitions. Exclusions. Telephone company protection of records. Penalties. Unfair trade practice. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Telephone record” means information retained by a telephone company that rel…