Tanner Electric Cooperative v. Puget Sound Power & Light

— At issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in granting summary judgment on the question of whether a service area agreement between a public utility and a rural electric cooperative was breached by a customer’s transfer of power from the utility’s service area for use in the cooperative’s service area, and whether the utility’s actions with regard to the cooperative violated Washington’s Consumer Protection Act, RCW 19.86.

Facts

Tanner Electric Cooperative (Tanner) is a nonprofit rural electric cooperative which was formed in 1936 pursuant to the Rural Electrification Act. The…