Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title, the commission |
may, in the event of a default by a standard-offer service |
provider, require the transmission and distribution utility in |
whose service territory the provider was providing standard-offer |
service to arrange and to provide for default service. |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title, the commission |
may, in the event that the commission receives no bids to provide |
standard-offer service in a transmission and distribution |
utility's territory or the commission determines that the bids it |
receives are inadequate or unacceptable, require the transmission |
and distribution utility to arrange and to provide for default |
service. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title, the |
commission may require a transmission and distribution utility to |
provide default service to its customers that are not located |
within either the New England independent system operator control |
area or the Maritimes control area; and default service pursuant |
to this sentence must be provided to customers at the same price |
and on the same terms and conditions as standard-offer service is |
provided to the customers of the transmission and distribution |
utility in the standard-offer class in which the customer is |
eligible to receive service. The arrangement and provision of |
such default service by a transmission and distribution utility |