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including population, the degree of urbanization of the <br /> area, its proximity to other urban areas, and the present <br /> and reasonably foreseeable future requirements of the area <br /> for other utility services. <br /> Section 366 . 04 (5) , Florida Statutes, codifies the Commission's <br /> jurisdiction over the State's generation, transmission, and <br /> distribution grid, and provides in pertinent part as follows: <br /> (5) The commission shall further have jurisdiction over the <br /> planning, development, and maintenance of a coordinated <br /> electric power grid throughout Florida to assure an adequate <br /> and reliable source of energy for operational and emergency <br /> purposes in Florida and the avoidance of further uneconomic <br /> duplication of generation, transmission, and distribution <br /> facilities. <br /> Additionally, Section 366 . 04 (7) , Florida Statutes, is also <br /> invoked by the Town as a basis for its Complaint; the County has also <br /> mentioned this statute in one of the requested declaratory statements <br /> in its Petition. That section, as originally enacted in 2008, 1 <br /> provided as follows : <br /> (7) (a) As used in this subsection, the term `affected <br /> municipal electric utility" means a municipality that <br /> operates an electric utility that: <br /> 1. Serves two cities in the same county; <br /> 2 . Is located in a noncharter county; <br /> 3 . Has between 30, 000 and 35, 000 retail electric customers as <br /> of September 30, 2007; and <br /> 4. Does not have a service territory that extends beyond its <br /> home county as of September 30, 2007 . <br /> (b) Each affected municipal electric utility shall conduct a <br /> referendum election of all of its retail electric customers, <br /> with each named retail electric customer having one vote, <br /> concurrent with the next regularly scheduled general election <br /> following the effective date of this act. <br /> (c) The ballot for the referendum election required under <br /> paragraph (b) shall contain the following question: "Should a <br /> separate electric utility authority be created to operate the <br /> business of the electric utility in the affected municipal <br /> electric utility?" The statement shall be followed by the <br /> word "yes" and the word "no. " <br /> 1 Subsection (e) of this statute was repealed in 2014. <br /> 7 <br /> as <br />