HOUSE BILL NO. 4977

A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled

"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and certain private utilities and other services affected with a public interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy suppliers; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by law on the public service commission; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide for the continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify residential energy conservation programs permitted under state law for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"

(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 9e.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 9e. (1) The commission shall require that all electric utilities disclose in a standardized format on the customer's bill or with a bill insert all of the following:

(a) The number of times the customer's service was interrupted during that billing cycle, excluding momentary interruptions.

(b) The total number of hours, or portions of hours, the customer's service was interrupted during that billing cycle, excluding momentary interruptions.

(c) The total number of momentary interruptions during the billing cycle.

(2) If the commission finds, after notice and hearing, that an electric utility violated subsection (1), the commission shall order that electric utility to pay a fine of not more than $1,000.00 for each violation.

(3) A customer attestation of service interruption and service restoration is sufficient evidence of a service interruption for purposes of this section. An electric utility may rebut a customer attestation with customer meter data.

(4) The commission shall require each electric utility to provide the following information to the commission by March 1 each year, which the commission shall make available to the public:

(a) A detailed identification of the cause of service interruptions that affected more than 1,000 customers of that electric utility in the previous calendar year.

(b) The number of miles of tree trimming the electric utility projects to accomplish in that calendar year and the number of miles of tree trimming the electric utility accomplished in the previous year, broken down by zip code, city, and township.

(c) The number of grid hardening or reliability projects performed in the previous calendar year, broken down by zip code, city, and township.

(d) A list of the top 20% of worst-performing circuits in the electric utility's service territory in the previous calendar year using System Average Interruption Duration Index, System Average Interruption Frequency Index, and Customer Average Interruption Duration Index metrics.

(5) As used in this section:

(a) "Momentary interruption" means an interruption of service that lasts less than 5 minutes.

(b) "Service interruption" means an interruption of service that lasts more than 5 minutes.

(c) "Service restoration" means that the interrupted condition has been corrected and that the interrupted customer or customers have regained the full use of electric service.