This bill establishes new regulations for electric public utilities in New Jersey regarding customer billing during service interruptions. Specifically, it prohibits these utilities from charging customers for electricity usage during any service interruption and mandates that for each billing cycle affected by such interruptions, the utilities must reduce fixed charges on customer bills proportionately to the duration of the outage. The bill defines a service interruption as the cessation of electric service to a customer.

Additionally, the bill requires electric public utilities to repair damaged or defective street lights within 10 business days of receiving notice of the issue. Until the repairs are completed, the utilities are not allowed to charge customers for electricity usage or fixed charges associated with those street lights. This legislation aims to protect consumers from being billed for services not rendered during outages and to ensure timely maintenance of public lighting infrastructure.