NANTAHALA POWER AND LIGHT CO. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 82-1872(L), 82-1896, 82-2032, 82-2131, 82-1904 and 82-1948.

727 F.2d 1342 (1984)

NANTAHALA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. Tapoco, Inc., Intervenor. NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION and Haywood Electric Membership Corporation, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. Tapoco, Inc., Intervenor. ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. TOWN OF HIGHLANDS, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. TOWN OF HIGHLANDS, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. Tapoco, Inc., Intervenor. Rufus L. EDMISTEN, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent. Tapoco, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Crisp, Raleigh, N.C. (Robert F. Page, Crisp, Davis, Schwentker & Page, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for Haywood EMC and North Carolina EMC.

James N. Horwood, Washington, D.C. (Cynthia S. Bogorad, P. Daniel Bruner, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, D.C., on brief), for Town of Highlands, N.C.

Joanne Leveque, Washington, D.C. (Charles A. Moore, Gen. Counsel, Barbara J. Weller, Deputy Sol., Washington, D.C., on brief), for F.E.R.C.

Robert C. Howison, Jr., Raleigh, N.C. (James E. Tucker, Edward S. Finley, Jr., John R. McArthur, Hunton & Williams, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for Nantahala Power and Light Co.

Ronald D. Jones, New York City (David R. Poe, M. Reamy Ancarrow, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Washington, D.C., on brief), for Aluminum Co. of America and Tapoco Inc.

Robert Harley Bear, Washington, D.C. (Maxwell & Bear, Washington, D.C., on brief), for Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of State of N.C.

Before MURNAGHAN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge.

Nantahala Power and Light Company ("Nantahala"), and Aluminum Company of America ("Alcoa") (collectively the "Companies"), the Town of Highlands, North Carolina, Haywood Electric Membership Corporation, North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation, and Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General of North Carolina (collectively, the "Customers") petition for review of several orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (the "Commission" or...

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