Company: CNLHP
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050033
Chunk: 29

Company: CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 29
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 by Yankee Gas.  PURA also implemented an annual cap on cost recovery of aging infrastructure replacement spending in the Distribution Integrity Management Program rate mechanism of $139.9 million, in which spending above the annual cap will be deferred for recovery until the next distribution rate case.  Yankee Gas is evaluating the need to file a motion for reconsideration within 15 days and an appeal within 45 days of the decision.

Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut Distribution Rate Case:  On August 29, 2022, Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut (AWC-CT) filed an application with PURA to amend its existing rate schedules to address an operating revenue deficiency.  AWC-CT’s rate application requested approval of rate increases of $27.5 million, an additional $13.6 million, and an additional $8.8 million, effective March 15, 2023, 2024, and 2025, respectively.  On March 15, 2023, PURA issued a final decision that rejected this request.  In this decision, PURA ordered a decrease to total authorized revenues of $4.0 million effective March 15, 2023.  The decision allows an authorized regulatory ROE of 8.70 percent.  On March 30, 2023, AWC-CT filed an appeal on the decision.  On March 25, 2024, the State of Connecticut Superior Court issued a decision on the appeal which dismissed nine, remanded back to PURA two, and partially remanded one of AWC-CT’s twelve claims of error in its appeal.  On March 28, 2024, AWC-CT filed an appeal of the Connecticut Superior Court decision to the Connecticut Appellate Court, and that appeal was subsequently transferred to the Connecticut Supreme Court.  

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On April 18, 2024, PURA initiated a docket to address the matters on remand.  On July 31, 2024, PURA issued a final decision in this docket and increased AWC-CT’s approved revenue requirement by $0.1 million above the amount authorized in the March 15, 2023 decision.  Rates went into effect on July 31, 2024. On September 13, 2024, AWC-CT filed an appeal of PURA’s July 31, 2024 final decision to the Connecticut Superior Court.  A ruling on the appeal is pending.