Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett declined to recuse himself from an OG&E case involving a preapproval application on Thursday. The company requested his removal because of comments he made in November.
The Nov. 26 request from the company was submitted after Hiett accused it of influencing a final order, saying the changes were “ nothing but propaganda.”
The order granted OG&E preapproval to build two new natural gas turbines at its Horseshoe Lake power plant in Oklahoma County and enter into purchase agreements. In the same document, the regulators denied the company’s request to bill customers immediately for the turbines’ construction…