Application for determination of eligibility

(a) (1) Each gas or electric company that seeks to recover costs under section 16-19d (b) of the General Statutes shall file an application with the Department of Public Utility Control requesting a determination of eligibility for recovery of the reasonable expenditures incurred in the promotion or marketing of efficient gas and electric equipment. A company may request that the filing be included as part of a company's rate proceeding under section 16-19 (a) of the General Statutes provided that, in order to make such request, the company shall waive the one hundred and twenty day time requirement set forth in section 16-19d-3 (a). (2) No such application shall be required if a cost is to be incurred after having been included in an electric company's conservation and load management plan reviewed and approved by the Department pursuant to section 16-243a-3 (d), or a gas company's conservation and load management plan reviewed and approved by the Department pursuant to section 16a-49-3 (a). (b) Each application shall contain sufficient testimony and data documenting all of the following: (1) the equipment to be promoted and/or marketed is (A) efficient and (B) the use of such equipment and the proposed amount to be budgeted for promotion and marketing would provide net economic benefit to the company's customers. In support of the net economic benefit criterion, the company shall provide specific data demonstrating: (i) the ratepayers or customer group(s) targeted by the proposed promotion or marketing; (ii) the anticipated impact of such promotional or marketing program on the electric or gas company's demand and energy requirements; (iii) the projected incremental impact on rates and bills to the company's customers, including non-participants in the promoted measures; (2) that the use and promotion of the equipment is consistent with State conservation and energy policy; (3) that the use and promotion of the equipment is consistent with integrated resource planning principles and with other demand or supply options as identified in the company's least cost integrated resource plan; (4) that the promotion or marketing of the equipment does not have as its primary purpose the promotion of one fuel over another. In support, the company shall provide documentation establishing to the satisfaction of the Department that such promotion or marketing is designed primarily to promote the replacement of existing equipment with more energy efficient equipment, or to install efficient equipment in new construction.