Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 80.28 · 73 active provisions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.(1) "Assignee" means a person, and any subsequent assignee, to which an electrical, gas, or water company assigns, sells, or transfers all or part of the electrical, gas, or water company's interest in or right…
(1) All charges made, demanded or received by any gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company for gas, electricity, water, or thermal energy, or for any service rendered or to be rendered in connection therewith, shall be just, fair, reasonable and sufficient. Reasonabl…
Whenever the commission shall find, after a hearing had upon its own motion, or upon complaint, that the rates or charges demanded, exacted, charged or collected by any gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company, for gas, electricity, wastewater company services, water…
In determining the rates to be charged by each water company subject to its jurisdiction, the commission:(1) Must adopt rules that establish a structure for incorporating the allowable cost of capital in the determination of rates or charges under this chapter that:(a) Accounts for any federal, state, or other external…
The legislature finds and declares that the potential for meeting future energy needs through conservation measures, including energy conservation loans, energy audits, the use of appropriate tree plantings for energy conservation, and the use of renewable resources, such as solar energy, wind energy, wood, wood waste,…
(1) In establishing rates for each gas and electric company regulated by this chapter, the commission shall adopt policies to encourage meeting or reducing energy demand through cogeneration as defined in *RCW 82.35.020, measures which improve the efficiency of energy end use, and new projects which produce or generate…
(1) Whenever the commission finds, after such hearing, that the illuminating or heating power, purity or pressure of gas, the efficiency of electric lamp supply, the voltage of the current supplied for light, heat or power, the quality of wastewater company services, the purity, quality, volume, and pressure of water,…
(1) Whenever the commission finds, after hearing, that any rules, regulations, measurements or the standard thereof, practices, acts or services of any such gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company are unjust, unreasonable, improper, insufficient, inefficient or inad…
Every gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, and thermal energy company shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to public inspection schedules in such form as the commission may prescribe, showing all rates and charges made, established or enforced, or to be charged or…
(1) Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change may be made in any rate or charge or in any form of contract or agreement or in any rule or regulation relating to any rate, charge or service, or in any general privilege or facility which shall have been filed and published by a gas company, electrical company, wa…
(1) Upon request by an electrical, gas, or thermal energy company, the commission may approve a tariff schedule that contains rates or charges for energy conservation measures, services, or payments provided to individual property owners or customers. The tariff schedule shall require the electrical, gas, or thermal en…
(1) Upon its own motion, or upon request by an electrical, gas, or thermal energy company, or other party to a general rate case hearing, or other proceeding to set rates, the commission may approve rates, charges, services, and/or physical facilities at a discount, or through grants, for low-income senior customers an…
Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to prohibit a gas company, electrical company, water company, or thermal energy company from establishing a sliding scale of charges, whereby a greater charge is made per unit for a lesser than a greater quantity for gas, electricity, water, or thermal energy, or any service rende…
The legislature declares it is the policy of the state to:(1) Preserve affordable energy services to the residents of the state;(2) Maintain and advance the efficiency and availability of energy services to the residents of the state of Washington;(3) Ensure that customers pay only reasonable charges for energy service…
Upon request by a natural gas company, an electrical company, or a thermal energy company, the commission may approve a tariff that includes banded rates for any nonresidential natural gas, electric, or thermal energy service that is subject to effective competition from energy suppliers not regulated by the utilities…
(1)(a) Except as provided otherwise in this subsection, no gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company may charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates and charges applicable to…
No gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company may make or grant any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation, or locality, or to any particular description of service in any respect whatsoever, or subject any particular person, corporati…
No gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, water company, or thermal energy company may, directly or indirectly, or by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or corporation a greater or less compensation for gas, electricity, wastewa…
(1) Every gas company, electrical company, wastewater company, or water company, engaged in the sale and distribution of gas, electricity, or water, or the provision of wastewater company services, shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish to all persons and corporations who may apply therefor and be reasonably entitled t…
Every gas, water, wastewater, electrical, or thermal energy company owning, operating or managing a plant or system for the distribution and sale of gas, water, electricity, or thermal energy, or the provision of wastewater company services to the public for hire is, and is held to be, a public service company as to su…
Whenever the commission finds, after hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, that repairs or improvements, to, or changes in, any gas plant, electrical plant, system of sewerage, water system, or thermal energy system ought to be made, or that any additions or extensions should reasonably be made thereto, in…
The commission may appoint inspectors of gas and water meters whose duty it shall be when required by the commission to inspect, examine, prove and ascertain the accuracy of any and all gas and water meters used or intended to be used for measuring or ascertaining the quantity of gas for light, heat or power, or the qu…
The commission may appoint inspectors of electric meters whose duty it shall be when required by the commission to inspect, examine, prove and ascertain the accuracy of any and all electric meters used or intended to be used for measuring and ascertaining the quantity of electric current furnished for light, heat or po…
Every gas company, electrical company, water company, and thermal energy company shall prepare and maintain such suitable premises, apparatus and facilities as may be required and approved by the commission for testing and proving the accuracy of gas, electric, water, or thermal energy meters furnished for use by it by…
If any consumer to whom a meter has been furnished shall request the commission in writing to inspect such meter, the commission shall have the same inspected and tested, and if the same, on being so tested, shall be found to be more than four percent if an electric meter, more than two percent if a gas meter, more tha…