Empire Electric Ass'n v. Public Service Commission

STEWART, Justice:

Petitioner, Empire Electric Association, Inc. (hereafter “Empire”), seeks reversal of the Public Service Commission’s order that Utah Power & Light Company furnish power to a mine site within Empire’s certificated service area by extending an existing distribution line. We affirm.

Respondent Atlas Minerals (“Atlas”), a division of Atlas Corporation, conducts mining operations in the States of Utah and Colorado. In 1977 it opened a uranium mine, known as the Dunn Mine, in San Juan County. The Dunn Mine operation requires three-phase electric service at the portal and at the…