Filing Requirements for Gas Utility Promotional Practices

PURPOSE: This rule prescribes the filing requirement for present, proposed or revised promotional practices. (1) Any promotional practices offered by a gas utility must meet the requirements set out in the commission’s rules regarding utility promotional practices (4 CSR 240-14). (2) No gas utility or its affiliate shall offer or grant any additional promotional practice or vary or terminate any existing promotional practice, directly or indirectly, or in concert with others, or by any means whatsoever, until a tariff filing showing the addition or variation or termination in the form prescribed by this rule has been made with the commission and a copy furnished to each other gas utility providing the same or competing utility service in any portion of the service area of the filing utility. (A) The utility shall provide the following information on the tariff sheets: 1. The name, number or letter designation of the promotional practice; 2. The class of persons to which the promotional practice is being offered or granted; 3. Whether the promotional practice is being uniformly offered to all persons within that class; 4. A description of the promotional practice and a statement of its purpose or objective; 5. A statement of the terms and conditions governing the promotional practice; 6. If the promotional practice is offered or granted, in whole or in part, by an affiliate or other person, the identity of the affiliate or person and the nature of their participation; and 7. Other information relevant to a complete understanding of the promotional practice. (B) The utility shall provide the following supporting information for each promotional practice: 1. A description of the advertising or publicity to be employed with respect to the promotional practice; 2. For promotional practices that are designed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of potential demand-side resources, a description of the evaluation criteria, the evaluation plan and the schedule for completing the evaluation; and 3. For promotional practices that are designed to acquire demand-side resources, documentation of the criteria used and the analysis performed to determine that the demand-side resources are cost-effective. AUTHORITY: section 386.250, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 240-3.255. Original rule filed Aug. 16, 2002, effective April 30, 2003. Moved to 20 CSR 4240-3.255, effective Aug. 28, 2019. *Original authority: 386.250, RSMo 1939, amended 1963, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996.