Petition of Quechee Service Co., Inc.

In this case we review two orders of the Public Service Board concerning Quechee Service Company (QSC), a once-private sewer company that became subject to the jurisdiction of the Board following the adoption of 30 V.S.A. § 203(6) in 1993. In the first of the challenged orders the Board established an initial rate base and cost-of-service for QSC; in the second, the Board denied QSC a certificate of public good (CPG). On appeal, QSC contests each aspect of the Board’s decision, claiming that the Board erred: (1) by reducing QSC’s rate base to reflect the percentage of development costs…