February 19, 2022 archive

Oklahoma storm securitization plan roundly criticized in new study

  A study of the cost-recovery methods used by utilities hit by Winter Storm Uri in 2021, the storm that left Texas and Oklahoma hard hit by extreme weather, shows Oklahoma’s method of securitization hits consumers hardest of the states that suffered in the storm. The storm was linked to more than 200 deaths in …

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Broadband state agency to be created in Oklahoma?

  Another layer of government bureaucracy at the Oklahoma state capitol is in the works as legislators are in reported talks with the governor’s office to create a new state agency to monitor broadband spending. The Oklahoman reported over the weekend such a proposed small agency would deal with the state’s millions of dollars it …

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