MCCLOSKEY v. PUBLIC UTILITY COM'N

No. 24 MAP 2020 No. 25 MAP 2020 No. 26 MAP 2020.

255 A.3d 416 (2021)

Tanya J. MCCLOSKEY, Acting Consumer Advocate v. PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION. Appeal of: Metropolitan Edison Company, Pennsylvania Electric Company, Pennsylvania Power Company, West Penn Power Company. Tanya J. McCloskey, Acting Consumer Advocate, Appellee v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Appellant. Tanya J. McCloskey, Acting Consumer Advocate, Appellee v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: July 21, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna M. J. Clark, Esq. , Terrance J. Fitzpatrick, Esq. , Energy Association of Pennsylvania, Michael Warren Hassell, Esq. , Harrisburg, David Bruce MacGregor, Esq. , Post & Schell PC, Philadelphia, for Energy Association of Pennsylvania, Amicus Curiae.

Michael D. Klein, Esq. , Jonathan P. Nase, Esq. , David Pascal Zambito, Esq. , Cozen O'Connor, Harrisburg, for National Association of Water Companies, Pennsylvania Chapter, Amicus Curiae.

Renardo Lee Hicks, Esq. , James Anthony Mullins, Esq. , Harrisburg, Scott J. Thomas, Esq. , Erin Nicole Tate, Esq. , Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, David E. Screven, Esq. , Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Law Bureau, for Appellant Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Laura Jane Antinucci, Esq. , Harrison William Breitman, Esq. PA, Office of Consumer Advocate, Harrisburg, Phillip David Demanchick Jr., Esq. , Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate, Erin Leigh Gannon, Esq. , Christine Maloni Hoover, Esq. , Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, for Appellee Tanya J. McCloskey.

Susan Elizabeth Bruce, Esq. , Charis Mincavage, Esq. , McNees, Wallace & Nurick, LLC, Harrisburg, for Appellees Penelec Industrial Customer Alliance, West Penn Power Industrial Intervenors, Industrial Users Group.

Anthony C. DeCusatis, Esq. , Mark Abraham Lazaroff, Esq. , Brooke Erin McGlinn, Esq. , Marc J. Sonnenfeld, Esq. , Philadelphia, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, John Lawrence Munsch, Esq. , FirstEnergy Service Company, Greensburg, for Appellees Metropolitan Edison Co., PA Electric Co., PA Power Co., West Power Co.

BAER, C.J., SAYLOR, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

This case presents questions of statutory construction involving whether a recent enactment to the Public Utility Code (Code), 66 Pa.C.S. § 1301.1(a), requiring the inclusion of income tax deductions and credits in rate computations, applies to "distribution system improvement charges...

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