Delaware § 1010 - Electric distribution companies’ obligation to serve customers.

§ 1010. Electric distribution companies’ obligation to serve customers.

(a) The standard offer service supplier shall provide standard offer service which is safe, efficient, adequate and reliable. The Commission may take appropriate actions to ensure that the standard offer service supplier provides such safe, adequate, efficient and reliable standard offer service.

(b) The Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the amount of notice that a customer who desires to return to the standard offer service supplier must provide, the minimum amount of time that a customer must take service from a standard offer service supplier, and the amount of charges that may be assessed against a customer who leaves the standard offer service supplier and later returns to the standard offer service supplier, including the appropriate retail market price, which may be higher than the standard offer service price.

(c) After hearing and a determination that it is in the public interest, the Commission is authorized to restrict retail competition and/or add a nonbypassable charge to protect the customers of the electric distribution company receiving standard offer service. The General Assembly recognizes that electric distribution companies are now required to provide standard offer service to many customers who may not have the opportunity to choose their own electric supplier. Consequently, it is necessary to protect these customers from substantial migration away from standard offer service, whereupon they may be forced to share too great a share of the cost of the fixed assets that are necessary to serve them as required by the Electric Utility Retail Customer Supply Act of 2006, 75 Del. Laws, c. 242.

72 Del. Laws, c. 10, §  3;  74 Del. Laws, c. 73, §§  4, 5;  75 Del. Laws, c. 242, §  8;