Community Choice for Electricity Act of 1999

Summary

Community Choice for Electricity Act of 1999 - Permits a customer group, or any entity (including a unit of State or local government) acting on behalf of such group, to acquire retail electric energy on an aggregate basis if the customer group is served by one or more local distribution companies subject to retail competition. Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to declare that any State that permits a retail electric consumers group to choose among competing electric energy suppliers shall also permit any general purpose local government unit (or group of such units acting together) to offer to act as purchasing agent for consumers' group purchasers in order to purchase electric energy on an aggregate basis (community choice aggregation). Prescribes implementation guidelines. Requires any State that has deregulated retail sales of electricity to permit local governments to exercise local franchise powers. Excludes from the purview of this Act: (1) non-participating municipal electric utilities and non-participating rural electric cooperatives; and (2) States that have adopted retail competition prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Allows subsequent regulations implementing any State law adopting retail competition to pertain to an opt-out aggregation plan as it may be undertaken by a general purpose local government unit.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 5 August 1999

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 5 August 1999

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 5 August 1999

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