On a split vote of one to one, the Commission rejected the company's request to waive the normal 30-day requirement to consider rate requests. Commissioner Joan Smith voted in support of the waiver, while Commission Chairman Ron Eachus cast the dissenting vote. Commissioner Roger Hamilton was unavailable. PUC staff had recommended the company be allowed to recover 3 percent of deferred excess net power costs. Commissioner Joan Smith said.
Current prices are highly volatile.
I fear if we do not act now customers could face a huge increase later. PacifiCorp filed the request in an effort to pass on rising energy costs to customers. It would raise residential rates by 2.5 percent. They testified without adequate information they could not draw an accurate conclusion for the correct amount of the company's net power costs and how much should be passed on to customers.