PRINTER'S NO. 4801

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 3030 Session of 2006

        INTRODUCED BY ROSS, BENNINGHOFF, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CIVERA,
           CRAHALLA, DALEY, FRANKEL, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOOD, HERSHEY,
           MUNDY, RUBLEY, SATHER, SCHRODER, E. Z. TAYLOR, THOMAS,
           WATSON, WRIGHT, YUDICHAK AND BARRAR, OCTOBER 17, 2006

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
           OCTOBER 17, 2006

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for duties of
     3     electric distribution companies.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 2807(e)(3) of Title 66 of the
     7  Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 2807.  Duties of electric distribution companies.
     9     * * *
    10     (e)  Obligation to serve.--An electric distribution company's
    11  obligation to provide electric service following implementation
    12  of restructuring and the choice of alternative generation by a
    13  customer is revised as follows:
    14         * * *
    15         (3)  (i)  If [a customer contracts] customers contract
    16         for electric energy and it is not delivered or if [a
    17         customer does] customers do not choose an alternative

     1         electric generation supplier, the electric distribution
     2         company or commission-approved alternative supplier shall
     3         acquire [electric energy at prevailing market prices] a
     4         portfolio of resources through one or more competitive
     5         procurement processes approved by the commission to serve
     6         [that customer] those customers and shall recover fully
     7         all reasonable costs.
     8             (ii)  In addition to complying with the requirements
     9         of the act of November 30, 2004 (P.L.1672, No.213), known
    10         as the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act, the
    11         resource portfolio acquired pursuant to this paragraph
    12         shall be designed to produce the lowest reasonable rates
    13         on a long-term stable basis and shall reflect a diversity
    14         of supply-side and demand-side resources, a diversity of
    15         fuel types and an appropriate mix of long-term, short-
    16         term and spot market purchases.
    17         * * *
    18     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.








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