December 5, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Johnson, Runestad, Lucido, Glenn, Howrylak, Barrett, Miller and Brann and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled
"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and
certain private utilities and other services affected with a public
interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy
suppliers; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned
utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of
this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe
and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public
utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by
law on the public service commission; to provide for the powers and
duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to
provide for the continuance, transfer, and completion of certain
matters and proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses;
to prohibit certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to
qualify residential energy conservation programs permitted under
state law for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to
encourage the utilization of resource recovery facilities; to
prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of energy; to
allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to reduce rates; to
provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to declare the
effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies and
penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 10gg.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 10gg. (1) A utility customer controls and owns their
electricity and natural gas usage information and data. Except for
the billing of electricity or natural gas supply, a utility shall
not release or use a customer's utility meter data without the
consent of that customer.
(2) The commission shall develop rules and processes for
customers to consent to the use and access of a utility customer's
data by the utility or a third party. Any utility or third party
using a utility customer's data for purposes other than the billing
of electricity or natural gas supply shall disclose to the customer
both the type of data accessed and how the data will be used,
including whether that data will be disclosed to any other company,
including an affiliated company. The commission shall also create a
secure process for utility customers to consent to and connect new
technologies capable of reading information directly from the
customer's utility meter. This process must be technology neutral
and allow utility customers to purchase third party technologies
approved by the commission as capable of interconnecting to the
utility customer's meter.
(3) As used in this section, "utility" means a person that
sells natural gas or electricity to retail customers in this state
and is regulated by the commission.