Mississippi Public Service Commission v. Federal Power Commission, Mississippi Power & Light Company v. Federal Power Commission

BELL, Circuit Judge:

Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) and Mississippi Power and Light (MP & L) seek review of an order of the Federal Power Commission denying MPSC’s petition for extraordinary relief from a curtailment plan approved by the Commission for United Gas Pipeline Co. (United). 1 The extraordinary relief was to be in the form of payments from higher to lower priority customers of United to compensate the latter for the greater costs of alternative fuels they were forced to use as a consequence of curtailment. The Commission denied relief on the ground that it lacked…