An Act To Protect Consumer Information at the Efficiency Maine Trust
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §10106, sub-§1, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 372, Pt. B, §3, is amended to read:
(1) A person, including the trust, to whom the record belongs or pertains has requested be designated confidential; and
(2) The board has determined contains information that gives the owner or a user an opportunity to obtain business or competitive advantage over another person who does not have access to the information, except through the trust's records, or access to which by others would result in a business or competitive disadvantage, loss of business or other significant detriment, other than loss or denial of financial assistance from the trust, to any person to whom the record belongs or pertains; and
(3) Contains information about the energy usage profile of a customer of a transmission and distribution utility in the State or a customer of a distributor of heating fuel or other energy source; and
(4) Contains personal information about a customer seeking financing through a program of the trust; and
summary
This bill designates as confidential, for purposes of the freedom of access laws, those records retained by the Efficiency Maine Trust that contain information about a customer's energy usage or that contain personal information about a customer seeking financing through the trust.