A. The commission may require electric utilities and rural electric cooperatives to furnish the commission with available information material to the reliability of electrical power grids within the state.

B. To ensure efficient and reliable operation of New Mexico electrical power grids and upon complaint of an interested electric utility or rural electric cooperative, and after notice and hearing, the commission may, to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with the standards prescribed by law for compulsory wheeling service ordered by the federal energy regulatory commission, require another electric utility to provide transmission services to the complainant, subject to arrangements for compensation therefor by agreement between the utilities or pursuant to a rate schedule filed with the federal energy regulatory commission.

History: 1978 Comp., § 62-6-25, enacted by Laws 1983, ch. 104, § 1.

Compiler's notes. — Sections 62-6-4 to 62-6-26.1 of the Public Utility Act are still effective as the repeal of Chapter 62, Article 6 by Laws 1998, Chapter 108, Section 82, effective July 1, 2003 Chapter 108, Section 82 was repealed prior to taking effect by Chapter 23, Section 1, Laws 2003. Although Laws 2003, Chapter 336, Section 8, amended Laws 1998, Chapter 82, as amended, an amendment of a repealed section is ineffective. See Quintana v. N.M. Dep't of Corrs., 100 N.M. 224, 668 P.2d 1101 (1983). Laws 2003, Chapter 416, Section 5 also repealed Laws 1998, Chapter 108, Section 82, as amended, a second time, however, that repeal is of no effect as the section had previously been repealed by Chapter 23, Section 1, Laws 2003.

Severability. — Laws 1983, ch. 104, § 2 provided for the severability of the act if any part or application thereof is held invalid.

"Interested electric utility". — The definition of "person" in Section 62-3-3E NMSA 1978 controls the meaning of "interested electric utility" in Subsection B of this section and, thus, a municipality that had not elected to come within the terms of the Public Utility Act was not authorized to seek wheeling orders from the commission. Public Serv. Co. v. N.M. Pub. Util. Comm'n, 1999-NMSC-040, 128 N.M. 309, 992 P.2d 860.