Legal Opinion

Greenwood v. New Hampshire Public Utilities Com'n

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided May 15, 2008No. 07-2322PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This case was brought by the owner of a small renewable hydroelectricity producing company, Alden Greenwood, who in 2006 sued the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (“PUC”) over an order the PUC had issued more than seventeen years earlier in May of 1988 (and declined to reconsider in later orders). The PUC said it issued the order under section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (“PURPA” or “the Act”) of 1978, 16 U.S.C. § 824a-3. The 1988 order rescinded the final ten years of a thirty-year (1985-2015) rate schedule which the PUC had earlier…

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