National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

In these consolidated cases, the National Fuel Gras Distribution Corporation (NFGr) seeks review of orders of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission)1 the joint effect of which was to require refunds to customers of $3,245,727.00 said to represent “the interest accrued” to NFGr on certain gas cost rate revenues determined by the Commission to have been unlawfully collected. The matters in controversy are the most recent to be born of the decision of the Commission in 1979 and 1980 to investigate and ultimately to disapprove purchases by NFGr of synthetic…