PSC 113.0504 Note1. The remaining value of the customer’s electrical equipment which is made obsolete;
PSC 113.0504 Note2. The cost of making the resulting necessary change in interior wiring; and
PSC 113.0504 Note3. The cost of installing the new equipment and removing the old, less the salvage value of such equipment as the customer retains.
PSC 113.0504(2)(2)If a utility changes its standard voltage it shall notify customers in advance and if customer equipment other than lamps must be changed, an adjustment as required in sub. (1) hereof shall be made. If tests of a representative sample of customers’ meters indicate that meters have started to creep because of the voltage increase or if the tests of the representative sample show that meters average more than 0.5% fast, meters affected by the change in voltage shall be tested and adjusted.
PSC 113.0504 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00.
PSC 113.0505PSC 113.0505Low-income service requirements.
PSC 113.0505(1)(1)A utility shall maintain and deliver services that ensure safe, affordable, reliable service and attempt to mitigate and prevent energy hardships before they arise. The utility shall strive to meet the following five goals: to serve the target population of customers with actual or potential energy hardships, to provide customers with the assistance they need, to educate internal utility staff so that they understand low-income households and are aware of services offered by the utility and outside resources, to adapt and improve and to establish and maintain inter-utility coordination. The utility shall maintain sufficient data on its performance with regard to the goals and parameters of this section in a manner satisfactory to the commission. Effectiveness in meeting the service requirements shall be monitored and measured against the following parameters:
PSC 113.0505(1)(a)(a) A description of the utility’s low-income/at-risk customer services including the mission/vision/goals and organizational staffing structure. The report shall include the organizational staffing structure, name, telephone number, location, position description and training of representatives who staff the services for low-income/at-risk customers.
PSC 113.0505(2)(2)Any information received from individual customers which serves to identify them individually, by usage or status, shall not be released by a utility to any source other than a utility low-income assistance program or the customer, without the customer’s consent. In preparing summaries or reports, a utility shall not provide any information from which the identity, usage, or account status of any individual customer can be ascertained.
PSC 113.0505 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00.
PSC 113.0506PSC 113.0506Stray voltage service fees.
PSC 113.0506(1)(1)All investor-owned electric utilities which have annual gross operating revenues related to electricity of less than $100,000,000 and all electric cooperatives with retail customers organized under ch. 185, Stats., will be assessed a service fee of $500 per investigation under the scope of the stray voltage program.
PSC 113.0506(2)(2)All investor-owned electric utilities which have annual gross operating revenues related to electricity of more than $100,000,000 shall be assessed according to s. 196.857 (1m), Stats.
PSC 113.0506(3)(3)Electric cooperatives with retail customers organized under ch. 185, Stats., will be assessed a total of $50,000 annually. Each electric cooperative shall provide an equal portion for this assessment. The amounts received under this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation made in s. 20.155 (1) (L), Stats., and credited against the assessment collected under s. 196.857 (1m) (a), Stats. The cooperatives shall pay the total amount that is assessed within 30 days after it receives a bill for that amount from the commission. The bill constitutes notice of assessment and demand of payment.
PSC 113.0506(4)(4)Each applicant for stray voltage program services may be assessed a fee not to exceed $300.
PSC 113.0506(5)(5)Reasonable fees, based on actual costs, may be assessed for services rendered other than those for the on-farm site-related fees in subs. (1) and (4). The fees collected in this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.155 (1) (L), Stats.
PSC 113.0506 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00.
PSC 113.0507PSC 113.0507Unconscionability.
PSC 113.0507(1)(1)If the commission finds that any conduct or aspect of a transaction directed against a customer by a utility is unconscionable, it may refuse to enforce any unconscionable aspect or conduct to avoid any unconscionable result.
PSC 113.0507(2)(2)Without limiting the scope of sub. (1), the commission may consider, among other things, the following as pertinent to the issue of unconscionability:
PSC 113.0507(2)(a)(a) That the practice unfairly takes advantage of the lack of knowledge, ability, experience or capacity of customers.
PSC 113.0507(2)(b)(b) That those engaging in the practice know of the inability of customers to receive benefits properly anticipated from the goods or services involved.
PSC 113.0507(2)(c)(c) That there exists a gross disparity between the price of goods or services and their value as measured by the price at which similar goods or services are readily obtainable by other customers, or by other tests of true value.
PSC 113.0507(2)(d)(d) That the practice may enable merchants to take advantage of the inability of customers to reasonably protect their interests by reason of physical or mental infirmities, illiteracy or inability to understand the language of the agreement, ignorance or lack of education or similar factors.
PSC 113.0507(2)(e)(e) That the terms of the transaction require customers to waive legal rights.
PSC 113.0507(2)(f)(f) That the terms of the transaction require customers to unreasonably jeopardize money or property beyond the money or property immediately at issue in the transaction.
PSC 113.0507(2)(g)(g) That the natural effect of the practice would reasonably cause or aid in causing customers to misunderstand the true nature of the transaction or their rights and duties thereunder.
PSC 113.0507(2)(h)(h) That the writing purporting to evidence the obligation of the customer in the transaction contains terms or provisions or authorizes practices prohibited by law.
PSC 113.0507 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00.