{"id":"AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-014","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania (State public utility commission)","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG","eco":"","issuer":"Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille (Emergency Order), Docket No. M-2020-3019254","authority":"66 Pa.C.S. 1501; 52 Pa. Code 3.1 et seq.","instrument":"Emergency Order suspending door-to-door, public-event and in-person sales and marketing of competitive electric and natural gas supply (announced by press release of March 16, 2020)","title":"PUC Suspends Door-to-Door, In-Person Marketing Activities for Energy Suppliers During Governor\u0027s Proclamation of Disaster Emergency","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16","end":"For the duration of the Governor\u0027s Proclamation of Disaster Emergency (the General Assembly terminated the proclamation June 10, 2021).","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2021-06-10","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["CLOSE","OTHER"],"addressees":["all licensed competitive electric generation suppliers and natural gas suppliers and their sales agents and vendors"],"clause":"Due to this unprecedented emergency, I find that door-to-door, public events and any in-person sales and marketing of competitive energy supply is not a necessity at this time, given the need to protect the public health and safety. (as quoted in the Commission\u0027s release of March 16, 2020)","enforcement":"66 Pa.C.S. 3301 (civil penalties); license conditions of competitive suppliers under 52 Pa. Code chs. 54 and 62; consumers directed to report violations to the Bureau of Consumer Services","functions":["MK and SF direct sales channel of every competitive energy supplier closed (door-to-door, public-event and in-person marketing prohibited)","PL staffing and contract sales vendors idled","HR sales agents","CB customer acquisition"],"notes":"An order limiting commerce in terms: it prohibited an entire in-person sales channel statewide for the duration of the disaster proclamation. The live page renders only a \u0027page not found\u0027 error to a headless browser although it serves to an ordinary fetch;","sourceUrl":"https://www.puc.pa.gov/press-release/2020/puc-suspends-door-to-door-in-person-marketing-activities-for-energy-suppliers-during-governor-s-proclamation-of-disaster-emergency","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210918202351/https://www.puc.pa.gov/press-release/2020/puc-suspends-door-to-door-in-person-marketing-activities-for-energy-suppliers-during-governor-s-proclamation-of-disaster-emergency","fileExists":false,"fileBytes":0,"grade":"secondary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG","url":"/library/AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-014","exhibitUrl":null,"citation":"Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille (Emergency Order), Docket No. M-2020-3019254, Emergency Order suspending door-to-door, public-event and in-person sales and marketing of competitive electric and natural gas supply (announced by press release of March 16, 2020) (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-014)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":[]}