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Alabama’s Public Service Commission Shuts the Public Out While Setting Utility Fuel Cost Rates
Alabama law allows public participation in “any proceeding” before the PSC, but the commission says determining how electricity fuel costs affect consumers’ bills does not constitute a “proceeding.” Alabama’s last official fuel cost “proceeding” was in 2008.
By Dennis Pillion
The Alabama Public Service Commission has rejected the latest bid for public participation into how it sets electricity fuel cost rates, despite a state law granting the right to intervene in “any proceeding before the commission.”