This bill requires a permit for the installation or upgrade of electrical service to a total of 300 amperes or more in a residential building. It also requires a transmission and distribution electric utility to report suspicious power use and transmit that report to municipal officials when: a 300-ampere or more total service is installed or an existing service is upgraded to a 300-ampere or more total service at a residential property, regardless of whether that installation or upgrade is a single 300-ampere or more panel or multiple smaller panels the sum of which is 300 amperes or more; a transformer malfunctions; a transformer larger than 25 kilovolt-amperes is installed or a transformer is
43 upgraded to a transformer larger than 25 kilovolt-amperes for a residential customer; there
44 is a month-to-month increase in power consumption greater than 500% for a residential
45 customer; or the transmission and distribution utility finds evidence that power diversion
46 or theft has occurred. The report must state the reason for the power increase if known by
47 the transmission and distribution utility.