OAR 860-038-0275
Direct Access Annual Announcement and Election Period

(1)

On November 15 of each year (or the next business day if November 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday as defined by ORS 187.010 (Legal holidays)), each electric company must announce the prices to be charged for electricity services in the next calendar year. The date on which the electric companies are required to announce such prices is “the Announcement Date.”

(2)

Electric companies must allow retail electricity customers that are eligible for direct access at least five business days after the Announcement Date to choose service under a cost-of-service rate option or to purchase electricity from either an electricity service supplier through direct access or an electric company through a standard rate offer.

(3)

At least five business days before the Announcement Date, electric companies and electricity service suppliers must announce, and post on their websites, estimates of prices for electricity services in the subsequent calendar year or subsequent contract period if different than a calendar year:

(a)

All electric companies and electricity service suppliers must continuously post the estimated prices announced under this rule on their websites until the Announcement Date.

(b)

Electric companies’ estimated prices will be the companies’ estimates of the electricity service prices that will be in effect for the calendar year subsequent to the Announcement Date.

(c)

Electricity service suppliers will determine estimated prices that will allow electricity consumers to compare the estimated prices of the electric company and electricity service supplier for the subsequent calendar year, or contract period if different than a calendar year.

(d)

Announcing estimated prices as required by this rule creates no obligation on the part of the electric companies and/or electricity service suppliers to provide electricity service to any consumer at the estimated prices.

(e)

If an electricity service supplier does not intend to sell electricity services in the subsequent calendar year or contract period, the electricity service supplier must announce, and post on a web site, that it does not intend to sell electricity services in the subsequent calendar year or contract period.

(4)

Thirty days prior to the Announcement Date, electric companies and electricity service suppliers shall provide to the Commission a URL address for a website where the individual electric company or electricity service supplier will post prices and announcements as prescribed by this rule. The Commission will post the URL addresses on its website.

(5)

At least once each year, electric companies must offer customers a multi-year direct access program with an associated fixed transition adjustment.

Source: Rule 860-038-0275 — Direct Access Annual Announcement and Election Period, https://secure.­sos.­state.­or.­us/oard/view.­action?ruleNumber=860-038-0275.

860‑038‑0001
Scope and Applicability of Rules 860‑038‑0005
Definitions for Direct Access Regulation 860‑038‑0080
Resource Policies and Plans 860‑038‑0100
Auction Process 860‑038‑0140
Ongoing Valuation 860‑038‑0160
Transition Costs and Credits 860‑038‑0200
Unbundling 860‑038‑0220
Portfolio Options 860‑038‑0240
Cost-of-Service Rate 860‑038‑0250
Nonresidential Standard Offer 860‑038‑0260
Direct Access 860‑038‑0275
Direct Access Annual Announcement and Election Period 860‑038‑0280
Default Supply 860‑038‑0300
Electric Company and Electricity Service Suppliers Labeling Requirements 860‑038‑0340
Electric Company Ancillary Services 860‑038‑0360
Electric Company Customer Metering Requirements 860‑038‑0380
Aggregation 860‑038‑0400
Electricity Service Supplier Certification Requirements 860‑038‑0410
Scheduling 860‑038‑0420
Electricity Service Supplier Consumer Protection 860‑038‑0445
Coordination of Supplier Changes and Billing 860‑038‑0450
Location of Underground Facilities 860‑038‑0460
Construction, Safety, and Reporting Standards for Electricity Service Suppliers 860‑038‑0470
Attachments to Poles and Conduits Owned by Public, Telecommunications, and Consumer-Owned Utilities 860‑038‑0480
Public Purposes 860‑038‑0500
Code of Conduct Purpose 860‑038‑0520
Electric Company Name and Logo 860‑038‑0560
Treatment of Competitors 860‑038‑0580
Prevention of Cross-subsidization Between Competitive Operations and Regulated Operations 860‑038‑0590
Transmission and Distribution Access 860‑038‑0600
Joint Marketing and Referral Arrangements 860‑038‑0620
Access to Books and Records 860‑038‑0640
Compliance Filings 860‑038‑0700
Definitions for New Large Load Direct Access Program 860‑038‑0710
Requirement to Enable a New Large Load Direct Access Program 860‑038‑0720
Nonresidential Standard Offer, Default Supply, and Return to Cost of Service 860‑038‑0730
New Large Load Eligibility Requirements 860‑038‑0740
New Large Load Program Enrollment and Rates 860‑038‑0750
De-Enrollment Due to Failure to Meet Load Standard 860‑038‑0760
Reporting
Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

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