KRS 278.016: Commonwealth to be divided into geographical service areas.

It is hereby declared to be in the public interest that, in order to encourage the orderly

development of retail electric service, to avoid wasteful duplication of distribution

facilities, to avoid unnecessary encumbering of the landscape of the Commonweal th of

Kentucky, to prevent the waste of materials and natural resources, for the public

convenience and necessity and to minimize disputes between retail electric suppliers

which may result in inconvenience, diminished efficiency and higher costs in servin g the

consumer, the state be divided into geographical areas, establishing the areas within

which each retail electric supplier is to provide the retail electric service as provided in

KRS 278.016 to 278.020 and, except as otherwise provided, no retail ele ctric supplier

shall furnish retail electric service in the certified territory of another retail electric

supplier.