Net billing agreements definition

Net billing agreements means those certain agreements that provide for the pay- ment, through net billing of costs of certain nuclear power projects, including the pay- ment of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued by EWEB and by the supply system, respectively, to pay such project costs entered into prior to July 23, 1999:
Net billing agreements means those certain agreements that provide for the payment, through net billing of costs of certain nuclear power projects, including the payment of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued by EWEB and by the supply system, respectively, to pay such project costs entered into prior to July 23, 1999:
Net billing agreements means those certain agreements that provide for the payment, through net billing of costs of certain nuclear power projects, including the payment of bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued by EWEB and by the supply system, respectively, to pay such project costs entered into prior to the effective date of this 1999 Act: (A) Between the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration and EWEB; (B) Among a participating utility, the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration and EWEB; or (C) Among a participating utility, the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration and the supply system. (c) 'Participating utility' means a consumer-owned utility established by, or organized and existing under, the Oregon Constitution and laws of the State of Oregon, and that is a party to a net billing agreement. (d) 'Supply system' means the Washington Public Power Supply System, a municipal corporation or joint power agency organized and existing under and pursuant to the laws of the State of Washington. + } SECTION 26. { + Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1 to 20 of this 1999 Act, a consumer-owned utility shall have exclusive distribution rights, to the extent such rights are provided by law, and exclusive responsibility for the performance and oversight of its distribution system including the acquisition, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of distribution facilities and metering, billing, collection and consumer response functions relating to the distribution of electricity to retail electricity consumers located within the utility's service territory. Nothing in this section shall diminish or enlarge the rights of any person under ORS 758.400 to 758.475. + } SECTION 27. { + (1) Beginning on the date a consumer-owned utility provides direct access to any class of retail electric consumers, the consumer-owned utility shall collect from that consumer class a nonbypassable public purpose charge for a period of 10 years. Except as provided in subsection (8) of this section, the amount of the public purpose charge shall be sufficient to produce revenue of not less than three percent of the total revenue collected by the consumer-owned utility from its retail electricity consumers for electricity services, distribution, ancillary services, metering and billing, transition charges and any other costs included in rates as of the effective date of this 1999 Act, except that the consumer-owned utility may exclu...