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APPEAL OF GRANITE STATE ELEC. CO.

No. 80-390.

121 N.H. 787 (1981)

APPEAL OF GRANITE STATE ELECTRIC COMPANY (New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission).

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

September 16, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orr & Reno P.A., of Concord (Richard B. Couser on the brief and orally), for Granite State Electric Company.

Ransmeier & Spellman, of Concord (Michael Lenehan on the brief and orally), for Newfound Hydroelectric Company, as amicus curiae.

Robert H. Rowe, of Milford, by brief and orally, for Franklin Falls Hydroelectric, Inc., as amicus curiae.

Peter W. Brown and Robert A. Olson, of Concord (Mr. Brown & a. on the brief and Mr. Olson orally), for Energy Law Institute.

DOUGLAS, J.

Granite State Electric Company (Granite State) appeals an order of the public utilities commission (PUC) establishing a minimum rate at which it must purchase electric power from small power producers (SPP) of hydroelectric power over the life of their projects. Granite State challenges both the rate and the fact that the PUC set that rate as a minimum for the life of the power projects. We reverse and remand.

In 1978, the New Hampshire Legislature...

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