BEL Asks for Judicial Review of PUC's Final Decision

When the Public Utilities Commission handed down its final decision at the end of June, refusing BEL an increase in electricity rates, the power company had barely anything to say. There were no interviews, no commercials, no lengthy rebuttals, just a very terse press release. But don’t mistake silence for consent. A week ago, BEL’s attorney Michael Young filed two cases against the PCU’s final decision. The first is requesting judicial review to quash that decision and the second is an appeal against that final decision. Under the PUC Act, the Supreme Court can hear appeals against the PUC, once they are questions of law. No date has been set for the hearing.