Toward Utility Rate Normalization v. Public Utilities Commission

Opinion

RICHARDSON, J.

We consider whether the Public Utilities Commission (Commission) has properly exercised its power and fulfilled its statutory obligations in ordering the implementation of a new method of measuring and assessing charges for local telephone service usage. (Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1977) 82 Cal.P.U.C. 162 (Dec. No. 87584).) We conclude that it has.

Toward Utility Rate Normalization (TURN) is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of California to represent, principally before Commission, the interests of residential consumers generally and…