Title: State ex rel. Utils. Comm'n v. Town of Kill Devil Hill
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 68A09
State: north-carolina
Issuer: north-carolina Supreme Court
Date: December 11, 2009

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. 68A09
FILED: 11 DECEMBER 2009
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION and VIRGINIA
ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY d/b/a DOMINION NORTH CAROLINA POWER,
Complainants, 
and 
PUBLIC STAFF – NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION, Intervenor 
v.
TOWN OF KILL DEVIL HILLS, Intervenor
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the
decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 670 N.C.
App. 341, 670 S.E.2d 341 (2009), affirming an order entered
18 September 2007 by the Utilities Commission, Docket No. E-22,
Sub 437, in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Heard in the Supreme Court
16 November 2009.
McGuireWoods LLP, by Mark E. Anderson, Edgar M. Roach,
Jr., and Monica E. Webb; and by Stephen H. Watts, II,
E. Duncan Getchell, Jr., and Kristian Mark Dahl, pro
hac vice, for complainant-appellee Virginia Electric
and Power Company d/b/a Dominion North Carolina Power.
Antoinette R. Wike, Chief Counsel, and Robert S. 
Gillam, Staff Attorney, for intervenor-appellee Public
Staff - North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Williams Mullen, by M. Keith Kapp, Kevin Benedict, and
Jennifer A. Morgan, for intervenor-appellant Town of
Kill Devil Hills.
North Carolina League of Municipalities, by Andrew L.
Romanet, Jr., NCLM General Counsel; Gregory F.
Schwitzgebel, III, NCLM Senior Assistant General
Counsel; and Daniel F. McLawhorn, Associate City
Attorney, City of Raleigh; and North Carolina
Association of County Commissioners, by James B.
Blackburn, III, amici curiae.  
Allen Law Offices, PLLC, by Dwight W. Allen and Britton
H. Allen, for Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Carolina
-2-
Power and Light d/b/a Progress Energy of the Carolinas,
Inc., amici curiae. 
Vandeventer Black LLP, by Norman W. Shearin, Jr. and 
David P. Ferrell, for North Carolina Association of
Electric Cooperatives, Inc. and Cape Hatteras Electric
Membership Corporation, amici curiae.
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED.