Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 69. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

CHAPTER 8. ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY GENERATION REINTEGRATION

Part 4. Public Utilities, Cooperative Utilities, and Electricity Suppliers

Nondiscriminatory Access

69-8-411. Nondiscriminatory access. (1) Nonutility generators and electricity suppliers must have open, fair, and nondiscriminatory access to a public utility's transmission and distribution facilities according to federal energy regulatory commission rules and regulations for purposes of serving those customers identified in 69-8-201(1) and (2).

(2) Except as provided in 69-5-104(1), public utilities shall grant the retail customers identified in 69-8-201(1) and (2) and their electricity suppliers access to transmission and distribution facilities at rates and under terms and conditions comparable to the public utility's own access to those facilities or access by the public utility's affiliates.

(3) Public utilities shall file tariffs for transmission and distribution services regulated by the federal energy regulatory commission and the commission implementing subsections (1) and (2).

History: En. Sec. 28, Ch. 505, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 580, L. 1999; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 491, L. 2007; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 120, L. 2011.