State Ex Rel. Monsanto Co. v. Public Service Commission

DONNELLY, Judge.

Relators, Monsanto Company, Anheuser Busch, Inc., General Motors Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, and Nooter Corporation (“Industrials”), are a group of large industrial utility customers who oppose the “rate design” under the 1983 tariff of Laclede Gas Company (“Laclede”), which the Public Service Commission (“PSC”) approved in rate case No. GR-83-233. “Rate design” is the method used to determine the rates to be charged to individual classes of customers. The Industri-als claim that under this rate design they are charged substantially more than the actual cost to…