S.C. Code Regs. § § 103-330

Current through Register Vol. 48, 12, December 27, 2024

Section 103-330 - Customer Information

Each electrical utility shall:

a. Maintain up-to-date maps, plans, or records of its entire transmission and distribution systems, with such other information as may be necessary to enable the electrical utility to advise prospective customers, and others entitled to the information, as to the facilities available for serving customers within its operating area.

b. Provide to each new residential and small commercial customer, within sixty days of application for service, a clear and concise explanation of the available rate schedules for the class of service for which the customer makes application for service.

c. Provide to each residential and small commercial customer to whom more than one rate schedule is reasonably available a clear and concise summary of the existing rate schedules applicable to the customer's class of service at least once a year.

d. Notify each affected customer of any proposed adjustment in rates and charges, excluding adjustment of base rates for fuel costs within sixty days of the date of the filing of such adjustment or as otherwise directed by the commission.

e. Provide to each customer, upon request, a clear and concise statement of the actual consumption of electrical energy by such customer for the previous twelve months.

f. Post a notice in a conspicuous place on the utility's website and in each local office of the electrical utility where applications for service are received, informing the public that copies of the rate schedules and rules relating to the service of the electrical utility, as filed with and approved by the commission, are available for inspection or download.

g. Upon request, inform its customers as to the method of reading meters, as to billing procedures and shall assist customers in selecting the most economical rate schedule applicable and method of metering the service, except as otherwise provided for by the commission.

h. Provide adequate means (telephone, etc.) whereby each customer can contact the electrical utility or its authorized representative at all hours in cases of emergency or unscheduled interruptions of service.

i. Upon request, give its customers such information and assistance as is reasonable in order that customers may secure safe and efficient service.

j. Notify any person making a complaint recorded pursuant to 103-345 that the electrical utility is under the jurisdiction of the commission and the customer may notify the ORS of the complaint.

S.C. Code Regs. § 103-330

Amended by State Register Volume 5, eff April 24, 1981; State Register Volume 10, Issue No. 6, eff June 27, 1986; State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2008; State Register Volume 48, Issue No. 05, eff. 5/24/2024.