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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".15" citation="COMAR 20.53.07.15" title_num="20" subtitle_num="53" chapter_num="07" heading="Green Power Offerings.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Beginning January 1, 2025, an electricity supplier that supplies electricity to residential retail electric customers may not market electricity as green power unless the electricity supplier obtains approval from the Commission.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>To obtain approval from the Commission to market electricity as green power, an electricity supplier shall submit an application on a form provided by the Commission that shall include at least the following information:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Identity of the applicant, including the following:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The applicant’s full business entity name as licensed by the Commission; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>The applicant’s Commission-issued supplier license number;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Service territories applied for;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Description of the price a customer will pay, as it will appear on the customer contract;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>A description of the electricity being marketed as green power, including the green power source and percentage of electricity that is green power;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>A description of how the green power complies with State law and regulations;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>A list of the marketing methods the applicant plans to use (e.g., magazine, newspaper, mail, web advertising, TV, radio, etc.);</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>To the extent available, sample marketing materials for each of the marketing methods the applicant plans to use, and if not available at the time of the application, the supplier shall provide such green marketing materials to the Commission and the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel before commencing selling green power in the state; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Any other information the Commission considers necessary.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Beginning January 1, 2025, an electricity supplier that supplies electricity to residential retail electric customers may not market electricity as green power unless the Commission approves the price of the electricity being marketed as green power:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>At an annual proceeding, or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>On request by an electricity supplier, at a specific proceeding for that electricity supplier.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>An electricity supplier’s application filed under §B of this regulation that seeks to offer a green power price that exceeds the price approved by the Commission in accordance with §C(1) of this regulation or, if the Commission has not established a price in accordance with §C(1) of this regulation, 100 percent of the trailing 12-month average of the electric company’s standard offer service rate pursuant to Public Utilities Article, §7-510(d)(2)(i), Annotated Code of Maryland, shall include in its application information consistent with the information identified in Public Utilities Article, §7-707(d)(3), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A supplier, after filing an application with the Commission as described in §D of this regulation, shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Respond to requests made by the Commission’s Technical Staff, Maryland Office of People’s Counsel, and other parties to which the Commission has granted discovery rights;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Make reasonable efforts to respond within 10 business days to information requests, including data requests, sent to the supplier regarding the supplier’s application, unless the Commission imposes a different deadline; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Serve objections to discovery requests within 3 business days, unless otherwise directed by the Commission.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>A renewable energy credit used to comply with this section shall comply with COMAR 20.61.03.01(A).</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>