§ 17-157. Assessment of electrical power and energy need - Review of forecasting and system planning data.

A.  The Commission shall prepare a ten-year assessment of the electrical power and energy requirements of this state and assess the need for additional or replacement generating facilities and the associated costs of such facilities to the electric consumers of this state.  The Commission shall reassess the statewide future electrical generation requirements every two (2) years.  Such assessments shall not constitute official Commission certification or approval of any proposed generating facilities.

B.  For the purposes of this section, every public utility and generation and transmission association or cooperative corporation, the Grand River Dam Authority, the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority, and any municipality proposing to construct generating facilities shall submit to the Commission, for the purpose of review, a list of all proposed projects for the construction, alteration or modification designed to increase electrical generating capacity of any electricity-production facility located within the state, along with any supporting data the Commission might direct.

Added by Laws 1983, c. 188, § 1, operative July 1, 1983.