Section 810-RICR-30-00-1.5 - Standards for Competitive Gas MarketingA. MARKETING LIMITATIONS1. Utilities shall not provide leads to gas marketers and shall refrain from giving any appearance that the utility speaks on behalf of any gas marketer. Nor shall the marketing affiliate suggest that its receives preferential treatment as a result of its affiliation. If a customer requests information about marketers, a utility should provide a list of all approved gas marketers, including its affiliate, but should not promote its affiliate.2. To the extent a utility provides a marketing affiliate information related to transportation which is not readily available or generally known to other gas marketers, including but not limited to utility customer lists, it must contemporaneously provide that information to all gas marketers on its system. A utility must file with the Commission procedures that will enable the Commission to determine how the utility is complying with this standard.3. Utilities shall not condition or tie their agreements to release interstate pipeline capacity to any agreement by a gas supplier, customer or other third party relating to any service in which their marketers are involved.B. CONDITIONS FOR COMPETITIVE SALES1. A utility shall communicate with all market participants when it has gas supply or capacity, or both, available for release.2. A utility may not sell gas supply or capacity to a marketing affiliate at less than a market-clearing price without either posting on an electronic bulletin board that is a well known source or placing an offering that would constitute an offering to the market of capacity or supply.3. Utilities must apply any tariff provision relating to transportation in the same manner to the same or similarly situated gas marketers if there is discretion in the application of the provision.4. Utilities shall uniformly enforce tariff provisions for which there is no discretion in the application of the provision for all transportation customers.5. Utilities may not, through a tariff provision or otherwise, give a gas marketer or its customers preference over other gas marketers or customers in matters relating to transportation including, but not limited to, scheduling, balancing, metering, storage, standby service or curtailment policy. Utilities may not sell to their marketing affiliates gas and capacity on a bundled basis, unless such bundled service is offered contemporaneously on a similar basis to other gas marketers.6. If a utility offers its marketing affiliate, or a customer of its affiliate, a discount, rebate, or fee waiver for transportation services, balancing, meters or meter installation, storage, standby service or any other service offered to shippers, it must contemporaneously offer the same discount, rebate, or fee waiver to all similarly situated non-affiliated gas marketers or customers by providing appropriate notification to the non-affiliated gas marketers or customers. A utility must file with the Commission procedures that will enable the Commission to determine how the utility is complying with this standard.7. Utilities must process all similar requests for transportation in the same manner and within a similar period of time.8. Utilities shall not disclose to any gas marketer any information obtained in connection with providing delivery or related services to another gas marketer or customer, a potential supplier or customer, any agent of such customer or potential supplier, or any other entity seeking to supply gas to a customer or potential customer.810 R.I. Code R. 810-RICR-30-00-1.5