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Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-042 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

News release, 'After more than a year of suspending disconnects for nonpayment, CPS Energy will resume normal billing operations in September' (July 28, 2021)

Disconnection suspension since March 2020 to end in September 2021, beginning with large and industrial commercial customers; late fees waived for payment-plan participants

CPS Energy · CPS Energy (San Antonio), Texas (City)

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Jurisdiction
CPS Energy (San Antonio), Texas · Texas
Level
City
Authority
Tex. Gov't Code ch. 1502
Issued
2021-07-28 July 28, 2021
Effective
2021-09-01 (resumption) (read as 2021-09-01)
End
2021-09 (commercial); residential thereafter (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Sept. 1, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • residential and commercial customers
Functions reached
  • CB
  • OP collections
  • SC collection contractors
Character
context
Collection
Local districts and authorities AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES

Operative words

After what will be a year and a half of suspending service disconnections for nonpayment, CPS Energy will resume normal collection activities in September of this year beginning with large and industrial commercial customers.... In March of 2020, CPS Energy suspended service disconnections for customers as the Greater San Antonio community banded together to work through the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the suspension of service disconnections, the utility also waived late fees for customers who participated in a payment plan. [83,587 residential accounts past due and 70,288 eligible for disconnection; 8,823 commercial accounts past due and 4,135 eligible for disconnection]

Enforcement

Utility service rule

Notes

Third-quarter-2021 instrument: the suspension was in force on July 1, 2021 and ended during the quarter for commercial customers only.

Retrieval note

Text read in full from the Wayback capture of July 31, 2021 (live page removed); three renders produced PDFs without a text layer and were discarded. Cite from the snapshot URL.