Attorney General v. Department of Public Utilities

The Attorney General appeals from an order of the Department of Public Utilities (department) approving a change in the way Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, doing business as Unitil (company or Fitchburg),2 recovers gas and electric supply-related bad debt expense; the order followed the department’s adoption of a revised policy for treating the recovery of supply-related bad debt in an adjudicatory rate case involving a different company. The Attorney General argues that the department could not apply its revised policy to Fitchburg, and approve Fitchburg’s proposed tariffs…