1. A. A supplier may elect to use supplier-consolidated billing upon receiving licensing that authorizes the provision of supplier-consolidated billing.
2. B. When an authorized supplier elects to use supplier-consolidated billing, a utility and a supplier shall transmit consumption, billing, payment, and related data to each other using electronic transactions approved by the Commission.
3. C. A utility may not obligate a supplier to purchase a customer’s arrears from the utility or from another supplier.

4. D. Utility Access to Supplier Bills for Supplier-Consolidated Billing.

   1. (1) A supplier providing supplier-consolidated billing services shall make a customer’s bill available to the utility in an electronic format.

   2. (2) A utility provided access to a customer’s supplier-consolidated billing information that includes supplier charges may not:

      1. (a) Use the information to market standard offer service;
      2. (b) Use the information to research or market other utility service; or
      3. (c) Without Commission authorization, share any information the utility gains through access to the supplier bill with the utility’s nonregulated affiliates or any other nongovernmental entity.

Authority: Public Utilities Article, §§2-113, 2-121, 5-101, 7-505, 7-507, 7-511, and 7-603, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: July 1, 2005 (31:26 Md. R. 1865)

Regulations .01—.03, Notice of Contract Expiration or Cancellation, repealed effective June 20, 2008 (35:11 Md. R. 1043)

Regulations .01, .02, .04, Supplier-Utility Coordination and Utility Consolidated Billing, adopted effective November 17, 2008 (35:23 Md. R. 2017)

Regulation .03 adopted effective April 6, 2009 (36:7 Md. R. 526)

Regulation .05 adopted effective April 6, 2009 (36:7 Md. R. 526)

Regulation .05B amended effective March 7, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 367)

Regulation .05E adopted effective March 7, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 367)

Regulation .06 adopted effective April 6, 2009 (36:7 Md. R. 526)

Regulation .06C amended effective March 14, 2016 (43:5 Md. R. 386)

Regulations .07—.13 adopted effective March 7, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 367)