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<chapter num="12" heading="CCA Pilot Program Termination" title_num="20" subtitle_num="63">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Scope.">
    <text>This chapter applies to the planned or unplanned termination of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) electric supply service.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Termination Plan.">
    <text>A CCA shall comply with the termination contingency plan approved for the CCA by the Commission.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Notice of Planned Program Termination.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>For the years 2028, 2029, and 2030, a CCA shall file with the Commission its current termination plan by April 15 of each year.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The CCA shall include in the filing the planned termination date, or range of dates, for each electric company service territory.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>A CCA shall, no less than 16 months prior to the planned termination date of the pilot, notify the Commission  and all affected electric distribution companies with CCA customers in the county of any planned program termination of CCA electric supply service that would result in CCA customers switching to SOS supply.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>The CCA shall include in the notice required by §B of this regulation:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The CCA electric supply services in each electric company service territory to be terminated;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>The planned date or range of dates of termination for each electric company service territory;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>The number of customers served, by rate class, for each electric company service territory that the CCA plans to be switched to SOS;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>An explanation of how affected customers enrolled in the CCA will be notified of the planned electric supply service termination no less than 90 days prior to the termination date; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>An explanation of why the electric supply service is being terminated.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" heading="Notice of Unplanned Program Termination.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>The CCA shall notify the Commission, all residential and small commercial electric customers in the county, and all electric companies with CCA customers in the county of any unplanned termination of CCA electric supply service that would result in CCA customers receiving SOS supply as soon as practicable.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>A CCA shall include in the notice to the Commission and electric distribution companies of unplanned CCA Pilot Program termination:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The CCA electric supply services in each electric company service territory to be terminated;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>The planned date, or range of dates, of termination for each electric company service territory;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>The number of customers, by rate class, served for each electric company service territory that the CCA plans to be switched to SOS;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>An explanation of how affected customers enrolled in the CCA will be notified of the unplanned electric supply service termination; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>An explanation of why the electric supply service is being terminated.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>A CCA shall include in the notice to affected residential and small commercial electric customers of unplanned CCA Pilot Program termination:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The planned date, or range of dates, of termination for each electric company service territory; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>An explanation that affected customers will be returned to SOS unless they enter into a retail supply contract.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" heading="CCA Termination.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>A CCA shall coordinate with each electric company, the transfer of customers back to SOS upon termination of the CCA in order to mitigate the impact to SOS procurement.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>A CCA that transfers all customers to SOS shall be considered to be dissolved.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>A CCA may not re-form unless it has followed the procedures established by this subtitle for establishing a new CCA.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>A CCA may not recover from electric company customers or electric companies any stranded costs for electricity supply contracts entered into by the CCA or generation owned by the CCA.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>A county shall make reasonable efforts to mitigate any electric company SOS procurement costs associated with transferring CCA customers back to SOS upon termination of a CCA.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" heading="Sale by the CCA of Contracted Energy Supplies.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Within 30 days of the termination date of the CCA, the county shall inform the Commission of any CCA  power purchase agreements designated for the CCA load for electricity supply which will exceed necessary supply for CCA customers by filing with the Commission a notice of Excess Contracted Electricity Supply, as follows:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The notice shall include a description of each power purchase agreement for electricity supply which will exceed necessary supply for CCA customers, including:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Power purchase agreement duration;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Remaining amount due to the contracted supplier;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Any plan to resell the power purchase agreement or renegotiate the contract; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>A statement of how the county intends to recover any power purchase agreement costs that are not recovered from CCA participants.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Within 180 days of the notice, the county shall file with the Commission a notice explaining the status of any contract identified in §A(1) of this regulation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Mitigation of SOS Unplanned Load. A CCA returning customers to SOS shall make available to the affected electric company any excess contracted electricity supply with right of first refusal.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Public Utilities Article, §§1–101(b), (f), and (k), 7–306(f)(5) and (h), 7–306.2(d)(3), 7–507(a), 7–510(f) and 7–510.3, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: February 5, 2024 (51:2 Md. R. 76)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>