ATTORNEY GENERAL v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES


390 Mass. 208 (1983)

455 N.E.2d 414

ATTORNEY GENERAL vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES & another (and five companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah E. Wald, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Nicholas J. Scobbo, Jr. (John R. Devereaux, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with him) for the city of Boston.

Charlie Donaldson, of New York, for Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, Inc.

Stanley U. Robinson, III, pro se.

Harold J. Keohane & John A. Detore, Special Assistant Attorneys General, for Department of Public Utilities.

R.K. Gad, III (Douglas S. Horan & Roscoe Trimmier, Jr., with him) for Boston Edison Company.

Charles Harak, for South Middlesex Opportunity Council, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

On September 23, 1981, the board of directors of the Boston Edison Company (Edison) voted to cancel the construction in Plymouth of a second nuclear power plant, called Pilgrim II.2 On October 16, 1981, Edison filed with the Department of Public Utilities (department) revised electric rate schedules providing for a general rate increase, effective November 1, 1981. Edison proposed to recover, as a cost of service reflected...

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