4928.14 Failure of supplier to provide service. - Ohio Statutes

4928.14 Failure of supplier to provide service.

The failure of a supplier to provide retail electric generation service to customers within the certified territory of an electric distribution utility shall result in the supplier’s customers, after reasonable notice, defaulting to the utility’s standard service offer under sections 4928.141, 4928.142, and 4928.143 of the Revised Code until the customer chooses an alternative supplier. A supplier is deemed under this section to have failed to provide such service if the commission finds, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, that any of the following conditions are met:

(A) The supplier has defaulted on its contracts with customers, is in receivership, or has filed for bankruptcy.

(B) The supplier is no longer capable of providing the service.

(C) The supplier is unable to provide delivery to transmission or distribution facilities for such period of time as may be reasonably specified by commission rule adopted under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code.

(D) The supplier’s certification has been suspended, conditionally rescinded, or rescinded under division (D) of section 4928.08 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 10-05-1999; 2008 SB221 07-31-2008