Ohio Consumers' Counsel v. Public Utilities Commission

{¶ 1} In these two consolidated public-utility cases, the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is challenging recent orders by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (“PUCO”) that allowed FirstEnergy Corporation’s three subsidiary electric companies — the Ohio Edison Company, the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, and the Toledo Edison Company (collectively, “FirstEnergy”), as well as the Dayton Power and Light Company — to change their accounting procedures in a way that could lead to future rate increases for the companies’ customers. According to the Consumers’ Counsel, the PUCO’s action — even…