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2013, c.7 - Electricity Act

Section 72
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Electricity sales
72(1)Subject to this section and to section 72.1, no person, other than the Corporation, shall sell or supply electricity to a consumer or municipal distribution utility within the Province.
72(2)A municipal distribution utility may sell electricity to a consumer within the territorial limits in which that municipal distribution utility is entitled to extend its distribution of electricity under section 88.
72(3)A municipal distribution utility that, on April 1, 2013, was a purchaser under a contract to purchase electricity from a person other than the Corporation may continue to purchase electricity from that person under the contract and subsequent contracts for so long as that contractual relationship continues uninterrupted.
72(4)Subsection (3) applies, with any necessary modifications, with regard to any successor or assign of the person from whom the municipal distribution utility was a purchaser of electricity on April 1, 2013.
72(5)For the purposes of subsection (3), an instant of time between the end of the term of a contract and the beginning of the term of a subsequent contract does not constitute an interruption in the contractual relationship.
72(6)Nothing in this section prevents a municipal distribution utility from purchasing electricity if
(a) the electricity is generated within the territorial limits in which that municipal distribution utility is entitled to extend its distribution of electricity under section 88, and
(b) the electricity is purchased in accordance with that municipal distribution utility’s policy regarding distributed generation or its policy regarding net metering.
2023, c.37, s.3
Electricity sales
72(1)Subject to this section, no person, other than the Corporation, shall sell or supply electricity to a consumer or municipal distribution utility within the Province.
72(2)A municipal distribution utility may sell electricity to a consumer within the territorial limits in which that municipal distribution utility is entitled to extend its distribution of electricity under section 88.
72(3)A municipal distribution utility that, on April 1, 2013, was a purchaser under a contract to purchase electricity from a person other than the Corporation may continue to purchase electricity from that person under the contract and subsequent contracts for so long as that contractual relationship continues uninterrupted.
72(4)Subsection (3) applies, with any necessary modifications, with regard to any successor or assign of the person from whom the municipal distribution utility was a purchaser of electricity on April 1, 2013.
72(5)For the purposes of subsection (3), an instant of time between the end of the term of a contract and the beginning of the term of a subsequent contract does not constitute an interruption in the contractual relationship.
72(6)Nothing in this section prevents a municipal distribution utility from purchasing electricity if
(a) the electricity is generated within the territorial limits in which that municipal distribution utility is entitled to extend its distribution of electricity under section 88, and
(b) the electricity is purchased in accordance with that municipal distribution utility’s policy regarding distributed generation or its policy regarding net metering.
Electricity sales
72(1)Subject to this section, no person, other than the Corporation, shall sell or supply electricity to a consumer or municipal distribution utility within the Province.
72(2)A municipal distribution utility may sell electricity to a consumer within the territorial limits in which that municipal distribution utility is entitled to extend its distribution of electricity under section 88.
72(3)A municipal distribution utility that, on April 1, 2013, was a purchaser under a contract to purchase electricity from a person other than the Corporation may continue to purchase electricity from that person under the contract and subsequent contracts for so long as that contractual relationship continues uninterrupted.
72(4)Subsection (3) applies, with any necessary modifications, with regard to any successor or assign of the person from whom the municipal distribution utility was a purchaser of electricity on April 1, 2013.
72(5)For the purposes of subsection (3), an instant of time between the end of the term of a contract and the beginning of the term of a subsequent contract does not constitute an interruption in the contractual relationship.
72(6)Nothing in this section prevents a municipal distribution utility from purchasing electricity if
(a) the electricity is generated within the territorial limits in which that municipal distribution utility is entitled to extend its distribution of electricity under section 88, and
(b) the electricity is purchased in accordance with that municipal distribution utility’s policy regarding distributed generation or its policy regarding net metering.