Statement from Alliance for Secure Energy Executive Director Jeff Cloud

I am pleased that Pro Tem Treat’s SB 1103 advanced out of the Oklahoma Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee today. If passed into law, this legislation will protect consumers by creating greater accountability at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) and stabilizing rates at a time when fuel prices are making electricity more costly.

In its current form, SB 1103 extends the same protections that natural gas customers already enjoy to electricity customers. As former chair of the Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner, I believe this process will improve cost predictability and increase regulator efficiency and ability to ensure that customer rates are fair, just and reasonable.