70-1001. Declaration of policy. In order to provide the citizens of the state with adequate electric service at as low overall cost as possible, consistent with sound business practices, it is the policy of this state to avoid and eliminate conflict and competition between public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, individual municipalities, registered […]
70-1001.01. Terms, defined. For purposes of sections 70-1001 to 70-1028, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Board means the Nebraska Power Review Board; (2) Electric suppliers or suppliers of electricity means any legal entity supplying, producing, or distributing electricity within the state for sale at wholesale or retail; (3) Private electric supplier means an electric […]
70-1002. Suppliers of electricity; agreements; specify service areas; submission to board; purpose of section. (1) All suppliers of electricity, including public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, individual municipalities, registered groups of municipalities, electric membership associations, and cooperatives, serving customers at retail in adjoining service areas shall have the authority to enter into written […]
70-1002.01. Suppliers of electricity; agreements; wholesale electric energy; submission to board; considerations; investigation; approval; effect. All suppliers of electricity, including public power districts, public power and irrigation districts, individual municipalities, registered groups of municipalities, electric membership associations, and cooperatives, shall have authority to enter into written agreements with each other limiting the areas in which […]
70-1002.02. Suppliers of electricity; sale in violation of approved agreement; prohibited. No supplier shall offer, provide or sell electric energy at wholesale in areas or to customers in violation of any agreement entered into and approved by the Nebraska Power Review Board pursuant to section 70-1002.01. Source Laws 1971, LB 349, § 2.
70-1002.03. New transmission facilities or interconnection; agreement by affected parties; disputes submitted to board; insure prudent utility practice; rate determination; effect. When any electric generation facility or transmission facility over seventy thousand volts is constructed or acquired, either within or without the State of Nebraska, and the output of the generation or transmission facility would […]
70-1002.04. Municipalities; joint operation of electric systems; register with board; reports; action subject to review or approval. Two or more municipalities owning or operating separate electric systems that join together for the purpose of facilitating the performance of any of their respective powers or duties shall, before such a group of municipalities commences operations, register […]
70-1003. Nebraska Power Review Board; establishment; composition; appointment; term; vacancy; qualifications; compensation; expenses; jurisdiction; officers; executive director; staff; reports. (1) There is hereby established an independent board to be known as the Nebraska Power Review Board to consist of five members, one of whom shall be an engineer, one an attorney, one an accountant, and […]
70-1004. Suppliers of electricity; filing of maps and service area statements; exception. Each supplier which becomes a party to an agreement under the provisions of section 70-1002 shall file with the secretary of the board a suitable map or maps, in such form as the board shall prescribe, showing either the service area or customers […]
70-1005. Suppliers of electricity; service area; application to establish; notice of hearing; exception. Any supplier may at any time on or after July 1, 1964, apply to the board to establish its service area. In such case and in all cases where agreements have not been entered into, including cases arising under section 70-1008, the […]
70-1006. Hearings; continuance; rules of procedure. At the hearing the board shall hear testimony and receive other evidence relating to the matter and may continue the hearing from time to time. The board shall adopt such rules of procedure as are advisable and in conformity with law. Source Laws 1963, c. 397, § 6, p. […]
70-1007. Establishment of service areas; board; orders; policy considerations. After the hearing, the board shall make an order establishing the service areas in the matter covered by the notice. In determining any such matter, the board shall seek to carry out the policy stated in section 70-1001. It shall give such consideration as is appropriate […]
70-1008. Certified service areas; established; municipalities; newly annexed areas; acquisition of facilities and customers; procedure; waiver of right to acquire; joint planning. In the absence of an agreement between the suppliers affected and notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions (1) to (5) of section 70-1007: (1) Existing service areas presently designated by agreements and exhibits filed […]
70-1009. Certified service areas; modification; application; transfer of facilities and customers; considerations; impairment of rights prohibited. (1) When one supplier at the date of enactment has customers or distribution facilities extending into the certified service area of another supplier, the customers and distribution facilities of the former supplier may be acquired by negotiation or by […]
70-101. Districts and corporations; furnish information; enforcement. Notwithstanding any other provision of law regarding confidentiality of records, every district or corporation organized under Chapter 70 shall, upon request, furnish to any county attorney, any authorized attorney as defined in section 42-347, or the Department of Health and Human Services a utility service subscriber’s name, social […]
70-1010. Modification of service areas; application; procedure; suppliers agreements; exception; transfer of customers and facilities; price; how computed; impairment of obligations prohibited. (1) The board shall have authority upon application by a supplier at any time to modify service areas or customers to be served as previously established. The same procedures as to notice, hearing, […]
70-1011. Suppliers; service outside area; application for approval; when granted; applicability of section. Except by agreement of the suppliers involved, no supplier shall offer electric service to additional ultimate users outside its service area or construct or acquire a new electric line or extend an existing line into the service area of another supplier for […]
70-1012. Electric generation facilities and transmission lines; construction or acquisition; application; approval; when not required. (1) Before any electric generation facilities or any transmission lines or related facilities carrying more than seven hundred volts are constructed or acquired by any supplier, an application, filed with the board and containing such information as the board shall […]
70-1012.01. Suppliers; electric generation and transmission facilities; terminate construction or acquisition; filing; reasons; hearing; effect; section, how construed. (1) If a supplier terminates construction or acquisition of electric generation or transmission facilities after receiving approval for the facilities from the board, the supplier shall file with the board, within thirty days after the action taken […]
70-1013. Electric generation facilities and transmission lines; application; hearing; waiver; appearances; objections; amendments. (1) Upon application being filed under section 70-1012, the board shall fix a time and place for hearing and shall give ten days’ notice by mail to such power suppliers as it deems to be affected by the application. The hearing shall […]
