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The opinion opens by identifying the parties: Lake Region Electric Cooperative, the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives (intervenor/appellant), the State ex rel. Oklahoma Corporation Commission (respondent), Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company (OG&E, respondent/appellee), and intervenors Cherokee Nation and Cherokee Nation Enterprises, LLC. The court notes this is an appeal from a final order of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Oct. 28, 2025, affirmed an Oklahoma Corporation Commission order denying Lake Region Electric Cooperative’s request to enjoin Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. (OG&E) from serving facilities located in Lake Region’s certified retail territory. The court addressed whether OG&E could rely on the Retail Electric Supplier Certified Territory Act’s large-load exception to connect via third-party transmission lines and repeated earlier holdings that the exception does not authorize third-party transmission extensions. Though the court agreed OG&E’s conduct raised statutory concerns, it affirmed the commission’s refusal to enjoin service because equitable defenses (laches, waiver) and the case’s specific facts weighed against injunctive relief.
