Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission

Electric Supplier Act revisited.

This is the tenth chapter in this case.

We now review a classic battle of the experts.

In short — we again affirm.

This litigation began in 1974 when Central Illinois Public Service Company (CIPS) — pursuant to section 7 of the Electric Supplier Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 111⅔, par. 407) — served Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative Co. (Rural Electric) with notice that it intended to extend certain of its existing lines to serve Freeman Coal Company’s new mine that was to be constructed in Macoupin County. Pursuant to the same statute, Rural Electric filed…