Bay State Gas Co. v. Department of Public Utilities

Five months after the Department of Public Utilities (department) approved the request of Bay State Gas Company (Bay State or the company) to sell and transfer all the common stock of its subsidiary Northern Utilities, Inc. (Northern), Bay State filed a petition for a general increase in its natural gas distribution rates. In that rate increase filing, Bay State sought to recover from its customers approximately $1.96 *808million in costs previously offset by revenues from its subsidiary Northern. Focusing on Bay State’s position during the earlier stock sale and transfer proceeding that the…