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Violations, or not? Commissioners hear arguments on electric service cases

By Jack MoneyBusiness writer jmoney@oklahoman.comOklahoma’s electric cooperatives continue to fight against various deals a larger, investor-owned utility made to serve customers in their territories. The dispute involves the Retail Electric Supplier Certified Territory Act, approved by Oklahoma’s Legislature in 1971. Language included in the act states its goal is to promote orderly extensions of electric service across the state by preventing duplicative facilities and fights between cooperatives and utilities over service rights. As part of the law, legislators allowed for territorial infringements on an electric provider’s “exclusive” service territory, but only in cases where the power needs of a customer would be 1 megawatt or greater and only in cases where the energy provider extends its service to the delivery point. Over the past several years, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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