It is hereby declared to be in the public interest that, in order to encourage the orderly development of retail electric service, to avoid wasteful duplication of distribution facilities, to avoid unnecessary encumbering of the landscape of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to prevent the waste of materials and natural resources, for the public convenience and necessity and to minimize disputes between retail electric suppliers which may result in inconvenience, diminished efficiency and higher costs in serving the consumer, the state be divided into geographical areas, establishing the areas within which each retail electric supplier is to provide the retail electric service as provided in KRS 278.016 to 278.020 and, except as otherwise provided, no retail electric supplier shall furnish retail electric service in the certified territory of another retail electric supplier.
KRS 278.016
Commonwealth to be divided into geographical service areas
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case City of Florence v. Owen Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1992)
Most recently applied in Grayson Rural Electric Corp. v. City of Vanceburg (June 1999)
History: Created 1972 Ky
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