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OCA Files Testimony In Liberty’s Gas Rate Case
Dockets:
DG 23-067
Category: Uncategorized
Re: Re: Proceeding to consider Liberty Utilities’ natural gas distribution rate case.
OCA filed testimony (2/21/24). Of note, OCA recommended an ROR of 6.18%, resulting in “a projected revenue increase of $10,701,636,” a decrease of ~$4.5 million from Liberty’s request.
Additional activity in this proceeding includes:
- DOE filed request to modify procedural order and extend deadline to file testimony (2/20/24).
- Office of Consumer Advocate (OCA) filed letter objecting to DOE’s request for extension (2/20/24).
- DOE filed motion to dismiss the proceeding (2/16/24) “on the grounds that the 2022 (test year) financial information (revenues, expenses, and plant in service) on which the rate filing is based cannot be reasonably relied on and therefore Liberty has not met and cannot meet its burden to prove that its proposed rates are just and reasonable.”.
- DOE filed partial objection and partial assent to Liberty’s motion for stay of proceeding (2/12/24). Of note, DOE “assents to Liberty Gas’s request for a stay of this proceeding, but not for the reasons the Company asks the Commission to adopt,” rather, because it “believes this rate case should be dismissed.”
- As background, Liberty Utilities’ natural gas distribution rate case seeks to yield an annual increase of $27,549,837 in distribution revenues to be effective 10/1/23, a temporary increase in distribution revenues of $15,287,114 annually to be effective 10/1/23, and approval for three step adjustments to recover capital investments made during 2023, 2024, and 2025 with rate adjustments effective 8/1/24, 8/1/25, and 8/1/26. Additionally, the utility proposes to convert its Keene Division system from propane-air to natural gas.
DG 23-067 (06/26/2023)
