Opt-Out Eligibility Requirement for Industrial Customers and Certain Commercial Customers. Commercial customers with annual consumption of 1,000,000 kWh or greater in the prior calendar year and all industrial customers may elect not to participate in any utility-offered DSM/EE Measures and, after written notification to the utility, will not be subject to the DSM/XX xxxxx. For purposes of application of this option, a customer is defined to be a metered account billed under a single application of a Company rate tariff. For commercial accounts, once one account meets the opt-out eligibility requirement, all other accounts billed to the same entity with lesser annual usage located on the same or contiguous properties are also eligible to opt-out of the DSM/XX xxxxx. Since these rates are included in the rate tariff charges, customers electing this option will receive a DSM and/or EE Credit on their monthly bill statement. Opt-out eligible customers that have received DSM/EE Program incentives will be subject to the applicable DSM/XX xxxxx xxxxxxxx for a period of no less than 36 months. Eligible non-residential customers may opt out of either or both of the DSM and EE categories of Programs as well as opt into either or both anytime during the year. If a customer receives Program incentives from a Company DSM or EE Program, that customer must opt-in for a period of no less than 36 months. A customer receiving Program incentives from a DSM Program will be required to pay the DSM portion of the DSM/XX Xxxxx for a period of not less than 36 months. A customer receiving Program incentives from an EE Program will be required to pay the EE portion of the DSM/XX Xxxxx for a period of not less than 36 months. In cases when the DSM rate element of the Rider DSM/EE is a credit, any opt-out eligible customer who wishes to opt in to the DSM portion of the Rider, without participating in a DSM program, will be required to remain opted into the DSM portion of the Rider for the same number ELECTRONICALLY FILED - 2020 December 4 2:28 PM - SCPSC - Docket # 2015-163-E - Page 41 of 60 Settlement Agreement Exhibit No. 1 of months that they received a bill credit following the last month in which they received a DSM bill credit from the Rider. In cases when the EE rate element of the Rider DSM/EE is a credit, any opt-out eligible customer who wishes to opt in to the EE portion of the Rider, without participating in an EE program, will be required to remain opted into the EE portion of the Rider for the same number of months that they received a bill credit following...
