3 Major Utilities Support EEI's TCPA Petition
Electric utilities American Electric Power and Dominion Energy jointly filed in support of the Edison Electric Institute's petition asking the FCC to clarify that utilities have “prior express consent” under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to send “demand response calls…
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and texts” to their customers (see 2503100047). “Demand response initiatives are developed and implemented by electric utility companies to incentivize their customers to limit power use during periods of peak demand, or to shift power use to times of lower demand,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 02-278. “The immediate impact of such behavior is to reduce stress on the electric delivery system, and in turn, to minimize the likelihood of a black out or brown out when power demand is expected to reach the maximum that the system can sustain,” the companies said. Utility National Grid USA also supported the petition.