DELMARVA POWER & LIGHT CO. v. PSC

No. 75, Sept. Term 2001.

803 A.2d 460 (2002)

370 Md. 1

DELMARVA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY d/b/a Connectiv Power Delivery, et al. v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 8, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah E. Jennings (Brett Ingerman of Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP of Baltimore), for Baltimore Gas and Elec. Co., on brief.

Christopher R. Mellott (Thomas P. Perkins, III of Venable, Baetjer and Howard, LLP of Baltimore; Randall V. Griffin, Christie Day Cannon of Conectiv of Wilmington, DE), for Delmarva Power & Light Co. d/b/a Conectiv Power Delivery, on brief.

Paul S. Buckely of Washington, D.C. (Lee A. Satterfield, Harry S. Johnosn, Dwight W. Stone, II of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston of Baltimore), for Washington Gas Light Company, on brief.

Susan Stevens Miller, General Counsel (Brock C. Hutton, Assistant General Counsel, on brief), Baltimore, Richard T. Miller, Asst. People's Counsel (Michael J. Travieso, People's Counsel, Baltimore), on brief, Gary R. Alexander (Chantel R. Ornstein of Alexander & Cleaver, P.A., Annapolis, on brief), for Mid-Atlantic Petroleum Ditributors Association, Air Conditioning Contractors of America - National Capital Chapter, Maryland Alliance for Fair Competition, and Air Pro Inc.

Marta D. Harting (Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, LLP), Baltimore, for Chesapeake Utilities Corporation.

Kenneth W. Christmas, General Counsel, Francis X. Wright (Eastwick, Rose & Wright, P.A.), Margaret Lee Norton (Norton & Jonson, LLC), Baltimore, for Columbia Gas of Maryland, Inc.

Kirk J. Emge, Paul H. Harrington, William D. Shapiro (Pepco Holdings, Inc.), Washington, D.C., Richard D. Gary (Hunton & Williams), Richmond, VA, Ted J. Murphy, Edwin G. Kichline, Kara D. Little (Hunton & Williams), Washington, D.C., for Potomac Elec. Power Co.

Andrew H. Marks, Jennifer N. Waters (Crowel & Moring, LLP), Washington, D.C., for BGE Home Products and Services, Inc.

William J. Murphy, Robert T. Shaffer, III (Murphy & Shaffer), Baltimore, Kathy L. Mitchell (Allegheny Energy Building), Hagerstown, for the Potomac Edison Co. d/b/a Allegheny Power.

Gary R. Alexander, Chantel R. Ornstein (Alexander & Cleaver, P.A.), Annapolis, for Amicus Curiae, Mirant Mid-Atlantic, LLC.

BELL, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, and BATTAGLIA, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

We have before us a broad range of issues arising from an order of the Public Service Commission (PSC) that implements, in part, the restructuring and partial deregulation of electric and natural gas utilities in Maryland. Most of the issues presented by the utilities are substantive in nature, testing whether the Commission has the authority to do some of what it did. The only issue that we need address on...

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