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risks and the need for price stability and contract | flexibility. |
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| C. A competitive electricity provider that is an affiliate | of a large investor-owned transmission and distribution | utility may submit bids to provide standard-offer service | for up to 20% of the electric load within the service | territory of the large investor-owned transmission and | distribution utility with which it is affiliated. To | prevent the unfair use of information possessed by a large | investor-owned transmission and distribution utility, the | commission shall ensure that a utility seeking to bid on | standard-offer service has no greater access to relevant | information than is provided to other potential bidders. |
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| D. A consumer-owned transmission and distribution utility | and a small investor-owned transmission and distribution | utility may submit bids to provide standard-offer service | for that utility's service territory. To prevent the unfair | use of information possessed by a consumer-owned | transmission and distribution utility or a small investor- | owned transmission and distribution utility, the commission | shall ensure that a utility seeking to bid on standard-offer | service has no greater access to relevant information than | is provided to other potential bidders. |
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| By February 15, 1998, the The commission shall provisionally | adopt rules establishing a methodology for structuring the | bidding process for standard-offer service in order to implement | the provisions of this subsection. In adopting rules, the | commission shall consider methods to ensure, to the extent | possible, at least 3 providers of standard-offer service in each | transmission and distribution utility service territory, as long | as the method does not result in any significant adverse impacts | on rates paid by consumers. Rules adopted under this subsection | are major substantive routine technical rules pursuant to Title | 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A. |
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| Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title, the commission | may, in the event of a default by a standard-offer service | provider, require the transmission and distribution utility in | whose service territory the provider was providing standard-offer | service to arrange and to provide for default service. | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title, the commission | may, in the event that the commission receives no bids to provide | standard-offer service in a transmission and distribution | utility's territory or the commission determines that the bids it | receives are inadequate or unacceptable, require the transmission | and distribution utility to arrange and to provide for default | service. The arrangement and provision of such default service |
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