Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Georgia Public Service Commission

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Atlanta Gas Light Company (“AGL”) appeals from a decision of the Public Service Commission (“PSC”) reducing the annual capacity charge. We find the appeal to be moot, in view of a subsequent decision of the PSC eliminating the annual capacity charge. Accordingly, we dismiss.

For many years, the PSC permitted AGL to apply an annual capacity charge to low load factor customers who used gas furnaces to “back-up” electric heat pumps. In a 1990 proceeding to consider new rate schedules proposed by AGL, two intervenors, Georgia Power Company and Herbert G. Burris, sought a…