This bill makes misrepresentation as a representative or affiliate of an electric utility or representative or official of a governmental agency or program when selling, offering to sell, leasing, installing or entering into any other financial arrangement regarding an electricity product a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act. The bill changes the information that must be included in a standard disclosure form provided by competitive electricity providers to residential and small commercial consumers and requires the disclosure form to be in a format prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission by rule. The bill provides information that must be included in a standard disclosure form to be provided by project sponsors to net energy billing customers and requires the form to be in a format prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission by rule. The bill requires the Attorney General to develop by rule a standard written disclosure to be provided to customers by persons who sell or install distributed generation resources and provides information that must be included in the standard written disclosure.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 1964, SP 771: 35-A.3203, 35-A.3209