Legal Opinion
Fitchburg Gas & Electric Light Co. v. Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 14, 1977PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company (Fitchburg) filed with the Department of Public Utilities (Department) new rate schedules designed to increase its annual revenues by $2,300,000. The Department issued a decision and order authorizing new rate schedules designed to increase Fitchburg’s annual revenues by $2,096,000. That order excluded from Fitch-burg’s rate base $1,399,900, the unamortized value of certain facilities which Fitchburg retired prematurely in 1971 *882and 1972. After our opinion in Boston Gas Co. v. Department of Pub. Utils., 367 Mass. 92 (1975), the Department held…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
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- Boston Gas Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
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3Cited by20 opinions
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