Sec. 16-19dd. Moratorium on changing agricultural rates. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 16-19dd. Moratorium on changing agricultural rates. (a) The Department of Public Utility Control shall not approve any electric public service company's application, under section 16-19, for a change in the electric rate of any agricultural customer from a residential rate schedule to a commercial rate schedule nor shall the department on its own initiative, under section 16-19a, authorize such change for three years from May 2, 1988. Each electric public service company, in the case of any such customer which it has transferred from a residential rate to a commercial rate since 1980 or which it transferred in violation of any department order, shall provide such customer with the option to reconvert to the customer's former rate classification.

      (b) All electric public service companies shall implement conservation and load management programs for agricultural customers.

      (P.A. 88-93, S. 1, 2; P.A. 94-242. S. 4, 9.)

      History: P.A. 94-242 deleted former Subsec. (b) re study of the impact on agriculture of the change in electric utility rates from residential to demand rate billing and relettered Subsec. (c) as (b), effective June 2, 1994.