STATE EX REL. UTILITIES COM'N v. EDMISTEN

No. 80.

263 S.E.2d 583 (1980)

STATE of North Carolina ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION; Nantahala Power & Light Company, Applicants-Appellants, v. Rufus L. EDMISTEN, Attorney General et al.; Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen., by Richard L. Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Maurice W. Horne, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Raleigh, for the State.

Joyner & Howison, by Robert C. Howison, Jr., James E. Tucker and G. Clark Crampton, Raleigh, for Nantahala Power and Light Co.

Crisp, Smith & Davis, by William T. Crisp, Raleigh, and Spiegel & McDiarmid, by Robert H. Bear, Washington, D. C., for Henry J. Truett.

McKeever, Edwards, Davis & Hays, by Fred H. Moody, Jr., Bryson City, for County of Swain.

Joseph Pachnowski, Bryson City, for Town of Bryson City.


EXUM, Justice.

On 1 November 1976, Nantahala Power and Light Company (Nantahala) applied to the North Carolina Utilities Commission for permission to raise its retail electric utility rates and to revise a purchased power cost adjustment clause applicable to such rates. Treating the matter as an application for a general rate increase under G.S. 62-133, the Commission ordered investigation, posting of notices, and held public hearings. The Attorney General on behalf...

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