PSC 113.0813 Requirements for instrument transformers. PSC 113.0814 Portable indicating instruments. PSC 113.0815 Type of instruments. PSC 113.0816 Servicing utilization control equipment. PSC 113.0817 Metering at point of interchange and for customers’ operating generating equipment. PSC 113.0818 Determination of average meter error. Subchapter IX — Electric Meter Testing Programs and Record Requirements
PSC 113.0901 Testing of metering installations-general requirements. PSC 113.0902 Testing equipment. PSC 113.0903 Accuracy and calibration of test standards. PSC 113.0904 Watthour calibration. PSC 113.0905 Methods of testing watthour meters. PSC 113.0906 Methods of testing block-interval demand registers. PSC 113.0907 Methods of testing block-interval pulse-operated demand meters and pulse recorders. PSC 113.0908 Methods of testing electronic (solid state) meters. PSC 113.0909 Methods of testing electronic registers. PSC 113.0910 Methods of testing electronic demand registers. PSC 113.0911 Testing of self-contained single-phase meters and 3-wire network meters at fixed periodic intervals. PSC 113.0912 Testing of self-contained polyphase meters. PSC 113.0913 Testing of meters used with instrument transformers on single-phase service. PSC 113.0914 Testing of polyphase electromechanical and completely solid state electronic meters used with instrument transformers at fixed periodic intervals. PSC 113.0915 Testing of metering installations utilizing pulse devices. PSC 113.0916 Testing of instrument transformers. PSC 113.0917 Phase-shifting transformers and loss compensators. PSC 113.0918 Adoption of standard by reference. PSC 113.0919 Metering equipment records. PSC 113.0920 Statistical sample testing plan for new self-contained single phase and 3-wire network meters. PSC 113.0921 Statistical sample testing plan for in-service, electronic (solid state) meters and electromechanical, self-contained, single phase and 3-wire network meters. PSC 113.0922 Customer request and commission referee tests. PSC 113.0924 Adjustment of bills for metering inaccuracies. PSC 113.0925 Billings for grounds. PSC 113.0926 Metering with one meter for net energy billing. Subchapter X — Electric Service Extension
PSC 113.1002 Principles of facilities development. PSC 113.1003 Definitions. PSC 113.1004 Customer contribution for service facilities. PSC 113.1005 Customer contributions for distribution extensions. PSC 113.1006 Embedded cost allowances. PSC 113.1008 Modifications to existing distribution and service facilities. PSC 113.1009 Revision of estimates to reflect actual cost. PSC 113.1010 Extension or modification of transmission facilities to retail customers. Ch. PSC 113 NoteNote: Chapter PSC 113 as it existed on July 31, 2000, was repealed and a new chapter PSC 113 was created, Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00. PSC 113.01(1)(1) All public utilities, whether privately or municipally owned or operated, in respect to the supply of electric energy and provision of electric service in this state, shall comply with and conform to rules set forth in this order except insofar as exception may be made by order of the commission as hereinafter mentioned. PSC 113.01(2)(2) Nothing in this chapter of the Wisconsin Administrative Code shall preclude special and individual consideration being given to exceptional or unusual situations and upon due investigation of the facts and circumstances therein involved, the adoption of requirements as to individual utilities or services which shall be lesser, greater, other, or different than those provided in said rules. PSC 113.01(3)(3) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent imposition of sanctions, fines, forfeitures, penalties or damages under more than one section of this chapter or ch. 196, Stats., or other statutes, for the same incident or occurrence. PSC 113.01(4)(4) The manner of enforcing the rules in ch. PSC 113 is prescribed in s. 196.66, Stats. and such other means as provided in statutory sections administered by the public service commission. PSC 113.01 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00. PSC 113.012(1)(1) “Ability to pay” means a customer’s financial capacity to meet his or her utility service obligation, considering all of the following factors: PSC 113.012(1)(e)(e) Any other relevant factors concerning the customer’s circumstances, as household size, income and expenses. PSC 113.012(2)(2) “Complaint” means a statement or question by any person whether a utility customer or not, concerning a wrong, grievance, injury, dissatisfaction, illegal action or procedure, dangerous condition or action, or failure of a utility to meet a utility obligation. PSC 113.012(3)(3) “Customer” means the party billed for payment of bills issued for use of utility service at a given premises. PSC 113.012(4)(4) “Customer-requested termination” means that the customer or occupant has asked the utility to cease providing utility service to a premises. PSC 113.012(5)(5) “Denied or refused service” means that a utility has refused to provide present or future service to a customer, occupant or premises. PSC 113.012(6)(6) “Disconnection” means preventing a specific customer from receiving electrical power through a specific action taken by the utility or its agents. This does not include temporary outages for maintenance purposes, storms, or other unplanned outages, or a customer-requested termination of service. “Disconnection” includes but is not limited to: the removal or sealing of an electric meter, severance of the connection between the distribution system and the service facilities or the customer’s internal wiring, or the transmission of an electronic signal to the metering equipment which would deactivate the meter and prevent the flow of electrical current. PSC 113.012(6m)(6m) “Potential power line natural hazards” means trees or tree parts located in or reasonably proximate to a utility distribution or transmission line easement that are likely to interfere with the utility’s operations, including distribution or transmission lines, within the utility’s next maintenance cycle. PSC 113.012(7)(7) “Installment payment agreement” means an arrangement between a utility and a commercial or farm customer for payment of a deposit in installments. PSC 113.012(7m)(7m) “Jointly-metered property” means a premises where electric service is measured jointly for 2 or more rental dwelling units, pursuant to s. 196.643 (2), Stats. PSC 113.012(7n)(7n) “Low-income customer” means a customer whose household income is at or below the federal poverty income guidelines for eligibility for federal energy assistance. PSC 113.012(8)(8) “New residential customer” means a customer who has not received utility service in his or her name during the previous 6 months from the utility from which service is requested. PSC 113.012(9)(9) “Occupant” means the resident or residents of a premises to which utility service is provided. PSC 113.012(10)(10) “Prompt payment” means payment prior to the time when a utility could issue a notice of disconnection for nonpayment of an amount not in dispute. PSC 113.012(11)(11) “Protective service emergency” means a threat to the health or safety of a resident because of the infirmities of aging, other developmental or intellectual disabilities, or like infirmities incurred at any age, or the frailties associated with being very young. PSC 113.012(12)(12) “Voucher agreement” means a payment agreement guaranteed by a third party who has access to or control over the benefits and/or finances of a public assistance recipient. Included without limitation are: PSC 113.012(12)(a)(a) Wisconsin Works (W-2) or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) restrictive payment arrangements. PSC 113.012 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00; 2019 Wis. Act 1: am. (11) Register May 2019 No. 761, eff. 6-1-19. PSC 113.0201PSC 113.0201 General requirement. Every utility shall furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities at the rates filed with the commission and subject to these rules and the rules of the utility applicable thereto and not otherwise. The energy shall be generated, transmitted, converted and distributed by the utility and utilized, whether by the utility or the customer, in such manner as to obviate so far as reasonably practicable undesirable effects upon the operation of standard services or equipment of the utility, its customers, or other utilities or agencies. PSC 113.0201 NoteNote: As used in these rules the terms “rules of the utility” or “utility’s rules” means the rules of the utility on file with the commission.
PSC 113.0201 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00. PSC 113.0202(1)(1) When a utility is required by governmental authority or requested by customers to move poles, as, for example, from streets to alleys, the utility is not required to furnish new service entrance conductors, cable, conduit, or service equipment unless it makes a practice of supplying this equipment. It shall, however, run a service drop to the nearest point on each building served from the new location and remove the old service drop without expense to the customer. PSC 113.0202(2)(2) If the utility moves its poles of its own volition the utility shall supply new service entrance conductors, cable, conduit, interior wiring connection and service equipment and remove the old; or shall attach its system to the existing service entrance conductors without expense to the customer. PSC 113.0202 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00. PSC 113.0203PSC 113.0203 Protection of utility facilities. A public utility upon receiving notice as provided in s. 66.0831 or 182.0175 (2m) (b), Stats., of work which may affect its facilities used for serving the public shall: PSC 113.0203(1)(1) If the notice is of work covered by s. 66.0831, Stats., investigate and decide what action, if any, must reasonably be taken to protect or alter utility facilities in order to protect service to the public and to avoid unnecessary damage. The utility shall take such action as is reasonably necessary to protect, remove, alter, or reconstruct its facilities and shall perform such work with reasonable dispatch taking into account the conditions to be met. Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to affect any right which the utility may have to require advance payment or adequate assurance of payment of the reasonable cost thereof to the utility by the property owner or contractor.
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