Court Opinion

ID: 6371459
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-24 23:46:26.643685+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:49:59.840366
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Dissenting Opinion by
President Judge Crumlish, Jr. :
. I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion which upholds the Public Utility Commission’s exclusion of $41,400,000 in pollution control expense depreciation from Philadelphia Electric Company’s test-year rate structure. The total monetary outlay of $285,000,000 is extraordinary and nonrecurring as to the plants affected, and therefore recovery through depreciation is justified under the principle set forth in Pike County Light & Power Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 87 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 451, 487 A.2d 118 (1985). I would, accordingly, reverse the Commission’s order on this point.
Judge Doyle joins in this dissent.