Or. Admin. Code § 860-038-0300 - Electric Company and Electricity Service Suppliers Labeling Requirements
(1) The purpose of
this rule is to establish requirements for electric companies and electricity
service suppliers to provide price, power source, and environmental impact
information necessary for consumers to exercise informed choice.
(2) An electricity service provider must post
a summary of the aggregated energy supply mix and associated emissions for the
Direct Access load served in Oregon in the previous year. When historic data in
unavailable, the ESS must use a reasonable estimate of future resource mix. The
summary must be updated on November 15 of each year (or the next business day
if November 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday as defined by ORS
187.010) and either included on
or via a link on its indicative pricing website as required under OAR 860-038-
0275.
(3) For each service or
product it offers, an electric company must provide price, power source, and
environmental impact information to all residential consumers annually, or at a
frequency prescribed by the Commission. The information must be based on the
available service options. The information must be supplied consistent with the
requirements prescribed by the Commission. The electric company must report
price information for each service or product for residential consumers based
on the average monthly bill and price per kilowatt-hour for the available
service options.
(4) An electric
company and an electricity service supplier must provide price, power source
and environmental impact information to nonresidential consumers consistent
with the requirements and frequency prescribed by the Commission. An electric
company and an electricity service supplier must report price information for
nonresidential consumers as follows:
(a) The
price and amount due for each service or product that a nonresidential consumer
is purchasing;
(b) The rates and
amount of state and local taxes or fees, if any, imposed on the nonresidential
consumer;
(c) The amount of any
public purpose charge; and
(d) The
amount of any transition charge or credit.
(5) For power supplied through its own
generating resources, the electric company must report power source and
environmental impact information based on the company's own generating
resources, not the unspecified market purchase mix. An electric company's own
resources include company-owned resources and wholesale purchases from specific
generating units, less wholesale sales from specific generating units. An
electric company's own resources do not include the non-energy attributes
associated with purchases under the provisions of a net metering tariff or
other power production tariff unless the electric company has separately
contracted for the purchase of the Tradable Renewable Certificates. For net
market purchases, the electric company must report power source and
environmental impact information based on the unspecified market purchase mix.
The electric company must report power source and environmental impact
information for standard offer sales based on the unspecified market purchase
mix.
(6) For purposes of power
source and environmental impact reporting, an electric company and an
electricity service supplier should use the most recent unspecified market
purchase mix unless the electric company or electricity service supplier is
able to demonstrate a different power source mix and environmental impact. A
demonstration of a different mix must be based on projections of the mix to be
supplied during the current calendar year. Power source must be reported as the
percentages of the total product supply including the following:
(a) Coal;
(b) Hydroelectricity;
(c) Natural gas;
(d) Nuclear; and
(e) Other power sources including but not
limited to new renewable resources, if over 1.5 percent of the total power
source mix.
(7)
Environmental impact must be reported for all retail electric consumers using
the annual emission factors for the most recent available calendar year applied
to the expected production level for each source of supply included in the
electricity product. Environment impacts reported must include at least:
(a) Carbon dioxide, measured in lbs./kWh of
CO2 emissions;
(b) Sulfur dioxide,
measured in lbs./kWh of SO2 emissions;
(c) Nitrogen oxides, measured in lbs./kWh of
NOx emissions; and
(d) Mercury,
measured in lbs./kWh of Hg emission.
(8) Every bill to a direct access consumer
must contain the electricity service supplier's and the electric company's
toll-free number for inquiries and instructions as to those services and safety
issues for which the consumer should directly contact the electric
company.
(9) The electricity
service supplier must provide price, power source, and environmental impact in
all contracts and marketing information.
(10) The electric company must provide price,
power source, and environmental impact in all standard offer marketing
information.
(11) By September 1,
each electric company and each electricity service supplier making any claim
other than unspecified market purchase mix must file a reconciliation report
for the prior calendar year on forms prescribed by the Commission. The report
must provide a comparison of the power source mix and emissions of all of the
seller's certificates, purchase or generation with the claimed power source mix
and emissions of all of the seller's products and sales.
(12) Each electricity service supplier and
electric company owning or operating generation facilities shall keep and
report such operating data about its generation of electricity as may be
specified by order of the Commission.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183, ORS 756 & ORS 757
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.600 - 757.667
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