Lamb County Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Public Utility Commission

OPINION

DAVID PURYEAR, Justice.

Lamb County Electric Cooperative (the “Cooperative”) asserted to the Public Utility Commission (the “Commission”) that Southwestern Public Service Company (“Southwestern”) had exceeded the scope of its certificates of convenience and necessity and was improperly providing electricity to customers inside the Cooperative’s service area. The Commission referred the matter to the State Office of Administrative Hearings for a contested-case hearing before an administrative law judge. The judge concluded that the service Southwestern was providing was consistent with…