---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2612"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2612"
heading: "Coverage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2612"
units:
  - "Chapter 46 — Public Utility Regulatory Policies"
  - "Subchapter I — Retail Regulatory Policies for Electric Utilities"
---

# §2612. Coverage

- (a) **Volume of total retail sales—** This chapter applies to each [electric utility](/usc/16/2602.md?p=4) in any calendar year, and to each proceeding relating to each [electric utility](/usc/16/2602.md?p=4) in such year, if the total sales of electric energy by such utility for purposes other than resale exceeded 500 million kilowatt-hours during any calendar year beginning after December 31, 1975, and before the immediately preceding calendar year.
- (b) **Exclusion of wholesale sales—** The requirements of this chapter do not apply to the operations of an [electric utility](/usc/16/2602.md?p=4), or to proceedings respecting such operations, to the extent that such operations or proceedings relate to sales of electric energy for purposes of resale.
- (c) **List of covered utilities—** Before the beginning of each calendar year, the [Secretary](/usc/16/2602.md?p=14) shall publish a list identifying each [electric utility](/usc/16/2602.md?p=4) to which this chapter applies during such calendar year. Promptly after publication of such list each [State regulatory authority](/usc/16/2602.md?p=17) shall notify the [Secretary](/usc/16/2602.md?p=14) of each [electric utility](/usc/16/2602.md?p=4) on the list for which such [State regulatory authority](/usc/16/2602.md?p=17) has [ratemaking authority](/usc/16/2602.md?p=11).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–617, title I, § 102, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3121.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I (§ 101 et seq.) of Pub. L. 95–617, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3120, which enacted subchapters I to IV of this chapter and section 6808 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and amended sections 6802 to 6807 of Title 42. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.