At its December 2021 Oral Argument Session, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania will hear arguments in three consolidated cases involving the installation of smart meters by electric utilities. A smart meter is part of a...more
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), like many other public and private organizations, is gradually returning to pre-pandemic procedures. Commission staff will soon return to the office and the PUC has issued...more
In several recent cases, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC or Commission) simultaneously ordered: (1) the commencement of an investigation into whether the Commission should order a troubled small water or...more
In a choice between infrastructure reinvestment and a direct pass-through of the tax savings to ratepayers, the Democrat-controlled Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PA PUC) has chosen a direct pass-through and claimed...more
On March 28, 2018, Duquesne Light Company (Duquesne) filed a base rate case with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to increase rates annually by $133.8 million. Buried deep in that proposal is a request to...more
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission) currently has a detailed regulation, 52 Pa. Code § 53.53, describing the information that must be submitted to the Commission to support a proposed general rate...more
In one of the first acquisitions to be decided pursuant to a 2016 amendment to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Code (Code) that allows a public utility to rate base fair market value instead of depreciated original cost, the...more