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Ohio Revised Code Title XLIX. Public Utilities § 4928.73

Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(A) As used in this section:

(1) “Mercantile customer member” means a mercantile customer connected to a mercantile customer self-power system.

(2) “Mercantile customer self-power system” means one or more electric generation facilities, electric storage facilities, or both, along with any associated facilities, that meet all of the following:

(a) Produce electricity primarily for the consumption of a mercantile customer member or a group of mercantile customer members;

(b) Connect directly to the mercantile customer member's side of the electric meter;

(c) Deliver electricity to the mercantile customer member's side of the electric meter without the use of an electric distribution utility's or electric cooperative's distribution system or transmission system;

(d) Is located on either of the following:

(i) A property owned or controlled by a mercantile customer member or the entity that owns or operates the mercantile customer self-power system;

(ii) Land adjacent to a mercantile customer member if the facilities connect directly with the customer.

(B) The mercantile customer self-power system may be owned or operated by a mercantile customer member, group of mercantile customer members, or an entity that is not a mercantile customer member.

(C) A mercantile customer self-power system may provide electric generation service to one or more mercantile customers.

(D) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to implement this section that are applicable to electric distribution utilities.

(E) Nothing in this section prohibits an electric distribution utility or an electric cooperative from charging a mercantile customer for distribution or transmission service used by a mercantile customer.

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