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5. Energy Service Providers that wish to offer or have Colton Electric Utility provide new metering and data communications equipment to support direct access, must submit a Meter and Data Communications Request for each meter account (Request to Energy Services transmitted to Substation Superintendent (maintaining a single point of contact for Energy Service Supplier)): a. From the request, the Substation Superintendent or his or her designee will define metering systems requirements necessary to support the desired direct access service options and assess the adequacy of existing metering and communications equipment. b. The Substation Superintendent or his or her designee will coordinate the installation of new or additional equipment for that meter account based on a set of standards approved by engineering and the Substation Superintendent. c. The Substation Superintendent or his or her designee shall approve the installed metering and data communications systems. 6. The Energy Service Provider must submit a service request (Direct Access Service Request or DASR) to the Colton Electric Utility for each meter service account that it wishes to serve under direct access (Request to Energy Services) at or above 20 kW. 7. For customers below 20 kW, the Energy Service Provider will provide a completed DASR through an Independent Verification Agent, or by other approved methods, to Colton Electric Utility. 8. The DASR cited in #7 above shall include (Energy Services) Customer name and service account address Account Number • Energy Service Provider Name • Scheduling Coordinator • Scheduling Coordinator registration number • Metering Service Option • Date metering and billing data communications setup finalized • Billing Service Option • For customers relying on consolidated billing, date that information transfer methodology between Colton Electric Utility (Information Specialist) and Energy Service Provider approved • For customers below 20 W, indication that the change in the Energy Service Provider has been approved • Verification that the customer has signed a commitment to pay CTC • For customers above 20 kW, written contracts between the Energy Service Provider and the customer must be attached • Distribution losses provided by Colton Electric Utility to be used for billing 9. Colton Electric Utility must be notified whenever a customer changes its Energy Service Provider. An Energy Service Provider acquiring a customer from another Energy Service Provider must follow the same procedures as an Energy Service Provider signing up a customer for direct access for the first time. C. Colton Electric Utility Responsibilities 1. The 20 kW threshold will be used to determine eligibility for load profiling and third -party metering services (the Colton Electric Utility will provide metering and billing services for all customers under 20 kW). The criteria for determining 20 kW or above will be the existing criteria used to differentiate between Rate Schedule GS 1A and GS 113.