State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Woodstock Electric Membership Corp.

G.S. 62-110.2 was enacted in 1965. Prior to its enactment, electric membership cooperatives, such as Woodstock, and investor-owned public utility companies, such as VEPCO, were free to compete in the rural portions of this State, in the absence of contractual restrictions upon such right, irrespective of the fact that such com petition resulted in substantial duplication of power lines and facilities. Utilities Commission v. Lumbee River Electric Membership. Corp., 275 N.C. 250, 166 S.E. 2d 663; Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. v. Power Co., 258 N.C. 278, 128 S.E. 2d 405; Pitt & Greene…