70-1014. Electric generation facilities and transmission lines; approval or denial of application; findings required; regional line or facilities; additional consideration. (1) After hearing, the board shall have authority to approve or deny the application. Except as provided in section 70-1014.01 for special generation applications, before approval of an application, the board shall find that the […]
70-1014.01. Special generation application; approval; findings required; eminent domain. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, an application by a municipality, a registered group of municipalities, a public power district, a public power and irrigation district, an electric cooperative, an electric membership association, or any other governmental entity, for a facility that […]
70-1014.02. Legislative findings; privately developed renewable energy generation facility; owner; duties; certification; decommissioning plan; bond; joint transmission development agreement; contents; property not subject to eminent domain. (1) The Legislature finds that: (a) Nebraska has the authority as a sovereign state to protect its land, natural resources, and cultural resources for economic and aesthetic purposes for […]
70-1015. Suppliers; electric generation facilities and transmission lines; unauthorized construction, acquisition, or service; injunction; violation; actions authorized; private electric supplier; commencement of construction prior to providing notice; violation; fine; executive director; powers and duties; dispute; hearing; procedure; decision; costs. (1) If any supplier violates Chapter 70, article 10, by either (a) commencing the construction or […]
70-1016. Appeals; procedure. An appeal of any final action of the board may be taken to the Court of Appeals. Such appeal shall be in accordance with rules provided by law for appeals in civil cases. Source Laws 1963, c. 397, § 16, p. 1265; Laws 1991, LB 732, § 123; Laws 2003, LB 187, […]
70-1017. Suppliers; duty to furnish service; disputes submitted to board. Any supplier of electricity at retail shall furnish service, upon application, to any applicant within the service area of such supplier if it is economically feasible to service and supply the applicant. The electric service shall be furnished by the supplier within a reasonable time […]
70-1018. Suppliers; disputes over rates; submission to board; hearing; recommendations. In the event of any dispute between suppliers concerning rates for service between such suppliers which cannot be settled by negotiations, the dispute shall be submitted to the board. The board may intervene in any such dispute on its own motion. Upon the submission of […]
70-1019. Board; proceedings; compel attendance of witnesses and production of documents; contempt proceedings authorized. In any proceeding had before it under the provisions of Chapter 70, article 10, the board shall have authority, by subpoena, to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of any books, papers, records, accounts, or other documents which may […]
70-1020. Board; expenses; assessments levied against suppliers; apportionment; collection; interest; Nebraska Power Review Fund; created; investment. In order to defray the expenses of the Nebraska Power Review Board, there shall be imposed upon each public power district, public power and irrigation district, electric membership association, electric cooperative company, and municipality having an electric distribution system […]
70-1021. Microwave communication facilities; authorization; procedure; protest; hearing; when. After April 24, 1978, except as provided in section 70-1022, a public power district shall not construct microwave communication facilities unless such district is authorized to construct and operate its own microwave facilities by order of the Nebraska Power Review Board. Before such microwave construction is […]
70-1022. Microwave facilities or system; authorization; when not required. Nebraska Power Review Board authorization shall not be required for the following: (1) Construction of microwave facilities to be completed in a reasonable time where the district has, prior to April 24, 1978, entered into binding contractual obligations with respect to such facilities; (2) Extensions of […]
70-1023. Transferred to section 70-1001.01.
70-1024. Power supply plan; board; powers and duties; special assessment. The board shall, prior to October 1, 1981, designate the representative organization responsible for the preparation and filing of those reports required pursuant to sections 70-1025 and 70-1026. The board may utilize a preexisting representative group from the industry if such group is willing to […]
70-1025. Power supply plan; contents; filing; annual report. (1) The representative organization shall file with the board a coordinated long-range power supply plan containing the following information: (a) The identification of all electric generation plants operating or authorized for construction within the state that have a rated capacity of at least twenty-five thousand kilowatts; (b) […]
70-1026. Power supply plan; research and conservation report; contents. The representative organization shall file, at the request of the board but no more often than biennially, a research and conservation report, which shall include the following information relative to programs enacted by the representative organization and its members: (1) Research and development; (2) Energy conservation; […]
70-1027. Power supply plan; research and conservation report; board; include data in biennial report; hearing. The board shall, in its biennial report, include data from any coordinated long-range power supply plan or research and conservation report filed with it. Before publishing its biennial report, if a coordinated long-range power plan or a research and conservation […]
70-1028. Electric transmission line approved for construction in regional transmission organization transmission plan; notice to board; failure to provide notice; effect. (1) If an electric transmission line has been approved for construction in a regional transmission organization transmission plan, the incumbent electric transmission owner of the existing electric transmission facilities to which the electric transmission […]
70-1029. Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate an additional $200,000 for FY2014-15 to the Nebraska Power Review Board from the General Fund to provide funds to conduct or cause to be conducted a study of state, regional, and national transmission infrastructure and policy and future needs for transmission infrastructure and […]
70-1030. Policy of state. It is the policy of the state to encourage and allow opportunities for development and operation of renewable energy facilities intended primarily for export from the state in a manner that protects the ratepayers of consumer-owned utility systems operating in the state from subsidizing the costs of such export facilities through […]
70-1031. Purposes of study. The purposes of the study provided for under sections 70-1029 to 70-1033 shall include, but not be limited to, identification of electric transmission and generation constraints and opportunities, federal and state legal and regulatory requirements and practices, national and regional transmission operation, national and regional transmission plans and policies, national and […]
