Electric Service Areas in Kentucky (PSC)

This is a coverage of the service areas of electric suppliers in the state of Kentucky. The polygon attribute table identifies the service territories; the arc attribute table gives the regulatory classification of boundary segments. The establishment of geographical service areas for retail electric suppliers, the rights of utilities operating within their own territories, and the requirement of map submission to the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) are provided for in Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) sections 278.016 to 278.020. The certified territory maps are the legal documents that define the retail electric service area of electric suppliers regulated by the Commission (Kentucky Statute 278.017). All of these maps are on file at the PSC. They have been scanned and are available as PDF documents. Most of them are USGS topographic maps from the 1980s signed by both utilities and stamped by the Public Service Commission. These were used to compile this coverage. The positions of service area boundaries on this coverage are estimated to be accurate within 100 feet. These digital boundaries are for informational purposes only, and have no legal standing.本数据集为肯塔基州境内电力供应商服务区域的矢量覆盖数据。其中多边形属性表用于标识服务领地范围，弧段属性表则标注了边界分段的监管分类。肯塔基州修订法案（Kentucky Revised Statute, KRS）第278.016至278.020条规定了零售电力供应商地理服务区域的划定规则、公用事业运营商在自有领地内的经营权限，以及向肯塔基州公共服务委员会（Kentucky Public Service Commission, PSC）提交地图的法定要求。经认证的领地地图属于法律文件，用于界定受该委员会监管的电力供应商的零售电力服务区域（依据肯塔基州法案第278.017条）。所有此类地图均存档于PSC，已完成扫描并可获取PDF格式副本。其中多数为20世纪80年代的美国地质调查局（United States Geological Survey, USGS）地形图，经公用事业运营商签署并加盖公共服务委员会公章，本数据集正是基于这些原始地图编制而成。本数据集中服务区域边界的位置精度预估在100英尺以内。此类数字边界仅用于信息参考，不具备法律效力。