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Consumer advocates seek stronger submetering rules in Ohio

Midwest Energy News: In a flurry of filings last week, businesses, industry associations and consumer advocates asked Ohio regulators to reconsider an order they issued last month that said submetering can be regulated by the agency.

Building-owners groups and submetering companies claim that treating them like utilities would be an overreach of legal authority by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Consumer advocates welcome PUCO regulation over the practice of landlords, condominium associations or other companies buying and reselling electricity. However, they want the agency to go further so that submetering customers who are residential consumers get all the protections that utilities must provide under Ohio law.

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