Power study panel debates competition, consumer price impact in Oklahoma.

Publication: Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)

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Byline: Adam Wilmoth

Sep. 23--Oklahoma electric utility customers could save nearly $90 million a year if state regulators required utilities to buy power from the least expensive sources, former Louisiana Sen. Bennett Johnston told an Oklahoma legislative task force Wednesday.

Johnston spoke before the Public Utility Purchased Power Study Commission on behalf of Burlington, Mass.-based InterGen, which owns a 1,200 megawatt natural-gas-fired power plant in Luther.

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. spokesman Paul Renfrow, however, dismissed much of Johnston's argument as "funny math."

The former U.S. senator said...

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