Entergy Texas, Inc.// Office of Public Utility Counsel and Public Utility Commission of Texas v. Public Utility Commission of Texas and Texas Industrial Energy Consumers// Office of Public Utility Counsel and Entergy Texas, Inc.

OPINION

David Puryear, Justice

This is an appeal from a final order of the Public Utility Commission in a ratemaking proceeding filed by Entergy Texas, Inc. (Docket Number 39896) for authority to raise its electric rates and reconcile its fuel costs. Both Entergy and the Office of Public Utility Counsel filed suits for judicial review of various aspects of the Commission’s order, and the suits were consolidated. The district court affirmed the Commission’s order on all issues but one, pertaining to the Commission’s use of a contemporaneous line-loss study in Entergy’s fuel reconciliation, which…