Refund hopes may lie in court
If Washington, Seattle City Light and other distribution companies are to gain massive repayments artificially inflated market prices paid for 2000-01 while the energy crisis, it would have been to pin their hopes on the courts federal instead of supervisors.State Attorney General Christine Gregoire yesterday gave the Council the city of Seattle, a pessimistic assessment of the prospects of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granting emergency aid requested by City Light and other public and private agencies, Enterprise in Washington.
An administrative law judge of the Regulatory Commission issued September, which Gregoire, a so-called “surprising” that the leaders of the sharp rise in energy prices North-West is not a violation of a commission mandate To ensure “just and fair” price.
He also pointed out that a (wholesale) to increase by $ 30 per kilowatt / hour up to $ 3000 per kilowatt-hour and it is reasonable, “The Attorney General said.
The Washington Utilities Regulatory ask the Commission, the administrative judge for the decision. They are awaiting a decision by late spring, as the Commission continues to investigate market manipulation of Enron - now in bankruptcy - operations other makers of energy for the west coast of the crisis energy.
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