Title 16 — Title 16: Public Service Companies

Sec. 16-228. Telephone lines. Subject to the restrictions of sections 16-18 and 16-248, each telephone company may construct and maintain telephone lines, upon any highway or across any waters in this state, by the erection and maintenance of the necessary fixtures, including pos…

Sec. 16-229. Excavation in highway. Any public service company incorporated under the provisions of the statutes or by special act for the purpose of transmitting or distributing gas, water or electricity or for telephone purposes, desiring to open or make any excavation in a por…

Sec. 16-230. Bond requirement. Before any such public service company makes any such application, it shall file with the Secretary of the State a bond, with surety, in form and amount satisfactory to and approved by him, to save harmless any person or corporation which may be inj…

Sec. 16-231. Appeal. Any such company aggrieved by the neglect or refusal of the authority having such jurisdiction to grant such permit, or by the terms and conditions therein imposed, may appeal to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, which may, upon giving reasonable not…

Sec. 16-231a. Cuts and permanent patches in highway. Inspections. Repairs. Certification. A public service company, as defined in section 16-1, a municipal waterworks system established under chapter 102, a district, metropolitan district, municipal district or special services d…

Sec. 16-232. Rights of companies organized under general law. No electric distribution company organized under any former joint stock law of this state shall use or occupy any highway or public grounds or be entitled to the powers or privileges enumerated in this chapter, without…

Sec. 16-233. Use of gain by town, city, borough, fire district or Department of Transportation. Each town, city, borough, fire district or the Department of Transportation shall have the right to occupy and use for any purpose, without payment therefor, one gain upon each public …

Sec. 16-234. Conducting vegetation management; notice to abutting and private property owners. Changing location of, erecting or placing wires, conductors, fixtures, structures or apparatus over, on or under any highway or public ground; rights of adjoining proprietors. Objection…

Sec. 16-235. Control by local authorities. Orders. Appeals. Except as provided in section 16-243, the selectmen of any town, the common council of any city and the warden and burgesses of any borough shall, subject to the provisions of section 16-234, within their respective juri…

Sec. 16-236. Appraisal of damages; costs. Any judge of the Superior Court may, upon the application of any party interested, and after notice, unless the application has been unreasonably delayed, appoint three disinterested persons to make a written appraisal of all damages due …

Sec. 16-237. No prescriptive right. No person or corporation building and maintaining telephone or electric light or power wires or fixtures, or electrical wires, conductors or fixtures of any kind shall, by reason of any occupation or use of any buildings or lands for the suppor…

Sec. 16-238. Wires may be cut; notice. When it is deemed necessary to cut or otherwise disconnect the wires or fixtures of any telephone, electric distribution company or other company or association hereinbefore referred to, or to remove such wires from the poles or fixtures to …

Sec. 16-239. Dispatches transmitted in order. Exceptions. Section 16-239 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 5651; P.A. 88-220, S. 8, 11.)

Secs. 16-240 to 16-242. Delivery of messages. Mortgage by telegraph company. Telephone service to telegraph companies. Sections 16-240 to 16-242, inclusive, are repealed, effective May 8, 2013. (1949 Rev., S. 5652–5654; P.A. 13-5, S. 52.)

Sec. 16-243. Jurisdiction of authority over electricity transmission lines. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall have exclusive jurisdiction and direction over the method of construction or reconstruction in whole or in part of each system used for the transmission or …

Sec. 16-243a. Private power producers. Purchase and sale of electricity. Avoided costs. Small renewable power projects. Interconnectivity standards. (a) As used in this section, “avoided costs” means the incremental costs to an electric public service company, municipal electric …

Sec. 16-243aa. Distribution of electricity across a public highway or street by a municipality or state or federal governmental entity. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall authorize any municipality or state or federal governmental entity that owns, operates or leases…

Sec. 16-243b. Definitions. Jurisdiction. (a) As used in this title: (1) “Private power production facility” means a facility which generates electricity in the state (A) solely through the use of cogeneration technology, provided the average useful thermal energy output of the fa…

Sec. 16-243bb. Adjustment of electric distribution company residential fixed charge. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Residential fixed charge” means any fixed fee charged to residential electric customers, including, but not limited to, (A) a fixed charge for distribution basic…

Sec. 16-243c. Electricity transmission and distribution services for electric cooperatives utilizing cogeneration technology and renewable energy resources. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may issue orders requiring electric distribution companies to provide, within the…

Sec. 16-243cc. Energy storage deployment. Report. On or before January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing commi…

Sec. 16-243d. Project by private power producer deemed “industrial project”. A project to be used for the production of electricity by a private power producer, as defined in section 16-243b, shall be deemed an “industrial project” under chapter 579, provided that a portion of su…

Sec. 16-243dd. Energy storage project proposals. (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, in consultation with the procurement manager identified in subsection (l) of section 16-2 and the Office of Consumer Counsel, may issue requests for proposals for energy …

Sec. 16-243e. Electric distribution company purchase of electricity generated by municipal resources recovery facilities. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, that, prior to July 6, 2007, purchase…

Sec. 16-243ee. Electric energy storage resource programs and associated funding mechanisms. Report. (a) On or before January 1, 2022, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to develop and implement one or more programs, and associated funding mechan…

Sec. 16-243f. Private power providers. Regulations concerning the purchase and sale of electricity. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, which establish procedures to determine the manner in which capacity needs of …

Sec. 16-243ff. On-bill reconciling mechanism for new electric plant additions. In any proceeding to amend rates under section 16-19 for customers of an electric distribution company that has a service area of eighteen or more cities and towns, that is initiated on or after July 1…

Sec. 16-243g. Assignment of electricity purchase agreements. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or of any special act to the contrary, no electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, municipal electric energy cooperative established under chapter …

Sec. 16-243gg. Costs associated with trade associations, lobbying, legislative action, advertising, marketing and board of director's or officers; travel, lodging or food and business expenses. Recovery of costs by an electric distribution, gas, pipeline or water company prohibit…

Sec. 16-243h. Credit to residential customers who generate electricity; metering. On and after January 1, 2000, and until December 31, 2021, each electric supplier or any electric distribution company providing standard offer, transitional standard offer, standard service or back…

Sec. 16-243hh. Rebate for customers that use natural gas for a shared clean energy facility. Not later than January 1, 2025, each gas company, as defined in section 16-1, shall institute a program to provide a rebate to any customers of such company that use natural gas for a sha…

Sec. 16-243i. Awards to retail end use electric customers and electric distribution companies re customer-side distributed resources. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, not later than January 1, 2006, establish a program to grant awards to retail end use custome…

Sec. 16-243j. Long-term financing for customer-side distributed resources and advanced power monitoring and metering equipment. (a) Not later than January 1, 2006, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall select, pursuant to a competitive bid process, one or more persons t…

Sec. 16-243k. Assessment of customer-side and grid-side distributed resources, effectiveness of award program. Not later than January 1, 2007, and annually thereafter, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall assess the number and types of customer-side and grid-side distr…

Sec. 16-243l. Rebate for customer-side distributed resource projects that use natural gas. On or before January 1, 2006, each electric distribution company shall institute a program to rebate to its customers with projects that use natural gas, which projects are customer-side di…

Sec. 16-243m. Measures to reduce federally mandated congestion charges. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, on or before November 1, 2005, identify those measures that can reduce federally mandated congestion charges, as defined in section 16-1, and that can be i…

Sec. 16-243n. Time-of-use, mandatory peak, shoulder, off-peak and seasonal rates. Optional interruptible or load response rates. (a) Not later than October 1, 2005, each electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, shall submit an application to the Public Utilities…

Sec. 16-243o. Waiver of back-up power rates. (a) If a customer of an electric distribution company implements customer-side distributed resource capacity after January 1, 2006, and such capacity is less than the customer's maximum metered peak load, the customer shall not be requ…

Sec. 16-243p. Recovery of costs, investments and lost revenues by an electric distribution company. (a) An electric distribution company may recover its costs and investments that have been prudently incurred as well as its revenues lost resulting from the provisions of sections …

Sec. 16-243q. Class III renewable energy portfolio standards. (a)(1) On and after January 1, 2007, each electric distribution company providing standard service pursuant to section 16-244c and each electric supplier, as defined in section 16-1, shall demonstrate to the satisfacti…

Sec. 16-243r. Customer-side distributed resources and grid-side distributed resources. Qualifications for applicability of certain provisions. The provisions of sections 7-233y, 16-1, 16-32f, 16-50i, 16-50k, 16-50x, 16-243i to 16-243q, inclusive, 16-244c, 16-245d, 16-245m, 16-245…

Sec. 16-243s. Awards to electric distribution companies for programs for load curtailment, demand reduction and retrofit conservation. Section 16-243s is repealed, effective June 6, 2014. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-1, S. 35; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 130.)

Sec. 16-243t. Class III credits. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this title, a customer who implements energy conservation or customer-side distributed resources, as defined in section 16-1, on or after January 1, 2008, shall be eligible for Class III credits, pursuant to s…

Sec. 16-243u. Plan to build peaking generation. From January 1, 2008, until February 1, 2008, any person may, and an electric distribution company shall, submit a plan to build peaking generation, or the electric distribution companies may submit a joint ownership plan to build p…

Sec. 16-243v. Connecticut electric efficiency partner program. Residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Connecticut electric efficiency partner program” means the coordinated effort among the Public U…

Sec. 16-243w. Advanced metering system plan and deployment. (a) On or before July 1, 2007, each electric distribution company shall submit a plan to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to deploy an advanced metering system. In lieu of submitting a plan pursuant to this sect…

Sec. 16-243x. Time-of-use meters. Notice of availability. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall require each electric distribution company to notify its customers on an ongoing basis regarding the availability of time-of-use meters, if applicable. (P.A. 11-8…

Sec. 16-243y. Microgrid and resilience grant and loan pilot program to support distributed energy generation for critical facilities. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Regional councils of governments” means a regional council of governments organized under the provisions of sect…

Sec. 16-243z. Geographic information systems data sharing. Disclosure of locations of medical hardship accounts in emergencies. (a) For purposes of this section, “regional council of governments” has the same meaning as “council” in section 4-124i, and “electric distribution comp…

Sec. 16-244. Electric deregulation; findings and declarations. The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) The provision of affordable, safe and reliable electricity is key to the continuing growth of this state and to the health, safety and general welfare of its residents…