California Public Utilities Code

§ 739.5

PUC § 739.5 Effective Jan 1, 2021Div. 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 4 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The commission shall require that, whenever gas or electrical service, or both, is provided by a master-meter customer to users who are tenants of a mobilehome park, apartment building, or similar residential complex, the master-meter customer shall charge each user of the service at the same rate that would be applicable if the user were receiving gas or electricity, or both, directly from the gas corporation or load-serving entity, as defined in Section 380. The commission shall require a gas or electrical corporation furnishing service to the master-meter customer to establish uniform rates for master-meter service at a level that will provide a sufficient differential to cover the reasonable average costs to master-meter customers of providing submeter service, except that these costs shall not exceed the average cost that the gas or electrical corporation would have incurred in providing comparable services directly to the users of the service.

(b)(1) Every master-meter customer of a gas corporation or load-serving entity subject to subdivision (a) who, on or after January 1, 1978, receives any rebate from a load-serving entity or gas corporation shall distribute to, or credit to the account of, each current user served by the master-meter customer that portion of the rebate which the amount of gas or electricity, or both, consumed by the user during the last billing period bears to the total amount furnished by the load-serving entity or gas corporation to the master-meter customer during that period.

(2)Paragraph (1) includes the credits stemming from the revenues received by the electrical corporation as a result of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to electric utilities pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 95890 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, that are required to be credited to customers of the electrical corporation pursuant to Section 748.5.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 164, Sec. 1. (SB 1117) Effective January 1, 2021.