Title XXXIV, Public Utilities

Whenever any schedule shall be filed with the commission stating new and higher rates, fares, charges or prices, which the public utility filing the same proposes to put into force, the commission may investigate the reasonableness of such proposed rates, fares, charges or prices…

I. (a) Pending any investigation of a rate schedule which represents a general increase in rates and the decision thereon, the commission may, by an order served upon the public utility affected, suspend the taking effect of said schedule and forbid the demanding or collecting of…

Whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion or on motion of the department of energy or upon complaint, that the rates, fares or charges demanded or collected, or proposed to be demanded or collected, by any public utility for service rend…

Consistent with their statutory authority, the commission and the department of energy may establish requirements, standards, and rate mechanisms for net metering, fuel diversity, fossil fuel generation efficiency, advanced metering, time-based rates, demand response practices, e…

The term "electric customer" means any customer to which electric energy is sold for purposes other than for resale.

When any public utility shall seek the benefit of any order of the commission allowing it to charge and collect rates higher than charged at the time said order is asked for, the burden of proving the necessity of the increase shall be upon such applicant.

Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion that an emergency exists, it may authorize any public utility temporarily to alter, amend or suspend any existing rate, fare, charge, price, classification or rule or regulation relating thereto.