PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. PATCH

Nos. 97-97-JD, 97-121-L.

87 F.Supp.2d 57 (2000)

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, et al., Plaintiffs, and Connecticut Valley Electric Company and Central Vermont Public Service Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs/Interveners, v. Douglas L. PATCH, Bruce Ellsworth and Susan S. Geiger, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

March 6, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce W. Gladstone, Cameron & Mittleman, Providence, RI, Jeffrey S. Cohen, Sulloway, Hollis & Soden, Concord, NH, John B. Nolan, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, James J. Tancredi, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, Allan B. Taylor, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, Martin L. Gross, Sulloway & Hollis, Concord, NH, for plaintiffs.

Robert Frank, NH Office of PUC, Concord, NH, Dennis Lane, Steven K. White, John E. McCaffrey, Michael E. Tucci, Morrison & Hecker, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Gary M. Epler, Larry S. Eckhaus, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, Concord, NH, for Douglas L. Patch, Chairman of the State of N.H. Public Utilities Commission, defendant.

Mark W. Dean, Dean, Rice & Howard, Manchester, NH, for New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Inc., intervenor-defendant.

Paul K. Connolly, Jr., H. Glenn Alberich, Scott J. Mueller, Damian R. LaPlaca, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Boston, MA, Paul B. Dexter, Patricia French, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Boston, MA, Jacqueline Killgore, Public Utility Policy Institute, Bedford, MA, for Unitil Corporation, intervenor-defendant.

Dem S. D'Ambruoso, Dom S. D'Ambruoso, Ransmeier & Spellman, Concord, NH, Dom S. D'Ambruose, Concord, NH, Joseph M Kraus, Rutland, VT, John T. Alexander, Ransmeier & Spellman, Concord, NH, Lee A. Freeman, Freeman, Freeman & Salzman, Chicago, IL, Carmen L. Gentile, David E. Goroff, James H. McGrew, Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, Washington, DC, Glynna W. Freeman, James T. Malysiak, John F. Kinney, Freeman, Freeman & Salzman, Chicago, IL, for Connecticut Valley Electric Company, plaintiff.


DECISION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, District Judge.*

This matter is the latest installment in the extensive litigation resulting from New Hampshire's attempt to deregulate its electric utility industry.1 However, for the reasons set forth below, the particular issue decided today is distinct from the many issues surrounding the implementation of that deregulation effort. Specifically, the question...

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