---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 824f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "824f"
heading: "Ordering furnishing of adequate service"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/824f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter II — Regulation of Electric Utility Companies Engaged in Interstate Commerce"
---

# §824f. Ordering furnishing of adequate service


Whenever the [Commission](/usc/16/410cc–1.md?p=3), upon complaint of a [State commission](/usc/16/796.md?p=21), after notice to each [State commission](/usc/16/796.md?p=21) and [public utility](/usc/16/824.md?p=e) affected and after opportunity for hearing, shall find that any interstate service of any [public utility](/usc/16/824.md?p=e) is inadequate or insufficient, the [Commission](/usc/16/410cc–1.md?p=3) shall determine the proper, adequate, or sufficient service to be furnished, and shall fix the same by its order, rule, or regulation: Provided, That the [Commission](/usc/16/410cc–1.md?p=3) shall have no authority to compel the enlargement of generating facilities for such purposes, nor to compel the [public utility](/usc/16/824.md?p=e) to sell or exchange energy when to do so would impair its ability to render adequate service to its customers.


## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. II, § 207, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 853.)