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Committee tables bill on utility allocation agreements after lengthy testimony from co-ops and oil-and-gas interests
Summary
The Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee tabled House Bill 184 after extended testimony about whether statutory changes are needed to enforce customer allocation agreements and how the Public Service Commission should resolve disputes when utilities or third parties serve customers inside another utility’s certificated territory.
The Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee tabled House Bill 184 after extended testimony from rural electric cooperatives, the Public Service Commission, and oil and gas industry representatives about how customer allocation agreements are enforced and whether statutory changes are necessary.
Sponsor Representative J.D. Williams said the measure would amend Public Service Commission law to bar a person or entity from "sell[ing] electricity for use by a customer in another public utility certificated service territory" without a customer allocation agreement among the seller, the customer and the utility in whose territory the customer is located. Williams said the intent is to protect not-for-profit member-owned rural electric cooperatives from loss of load and…
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