2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 74 - Generation Choice for Customers of Electric Cooperatives
7409 - Universal service and energy conservation.

     § 7409.  Universal service and energy conservation.
        (a)  General rule.--Electric cooperative corporations shall
     ensure that universal service and energy conservation policies,
     activities and services that they provide as of the effective
     date of this chapter to assist customers who are low-income to
     afford electric service are appropriately funded and available
     within their territories. Such activities shall be funded by
     nonbypassable, competitively neutral cost-recovery mechanisms
     that fully recover the costs of universal service and energy
     conservation services.
        (b)  Definition.--As used in this section, the term
     "universal service and energy conservation" shall mean policies,
     protections and services that help low-income customers to
     maintain electric service, including customer assistance
     programs and policies and services that help low-income
     customers to reduce or manage energy consumption in a cost-
     effective manner, such as the low-income usage reduction
     programs and customer education.