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