Public Advocate v. Public Utilities Commission

LIPEZ, Justice.

The Public Advocate appeals from an order entered by the Public Utilities Commission awarding Bangor Hydro-Electric Company $7,320,000 in rate increases associated with projected revenue losses for the rate or attrition year, that is, from March 1994 through February 1995. The Public Advocate contends that the industrial sales component of the Commission’s attrition1 award lacked substantial evidentiary support and its findings of fact were deficient pursuant to 5 M.R.S.A. § 9061 (1989).2 We disagree and we affirm.

*1253In May 1993, Bangor Hydro filed revised rate schedules that…