Current through Vol. 24-21, December 1, 2024
Section R. 460.10105 - Sharing of facilities and employeesRule 5.
(1) A utility, its affiliates, and other entities within the corporate structure may share facilities, equipment, operating employees, and computer hardware and software with documented protection to prevent discriminatory access to competitively sensitive information, provided that such sharing complies with section 10ee of 2016 PA 341, MCL 460.10ee, and measures are adopted to prevent cross-subsidization and preferential treatment that is otherwise prohibited.(2) A utility may transfer employees between the utility and an affiliate alternative electric supplier providing the utility documents those transfers and files semi-annually with the commission a report of each occasion on which an employee of the utility became an employee of an affiliate alternative electric supplier and/or an employee of an affiliate alternative electric supplier became an employee of the utility.(3) None of these rules shall be interpreted to require a utility with fewer than 60 employees to maintain separate facilities, operations, or personnel used to deliver regulated services and unregulated programs and services. Utilities using a third-party contractor for value-added programs and services remain subject to the provisions of MCL 460.10ee(12).Mich. Admin. Code R. 460.10105