Citizens of the State v. Florida Public Service Commission

I dissent. This is a petition to review an order of the Florida Public Service Commission changing the fuel adjustment clause procedure for electric utilities, effective April 1, 1980. The public counsel seeks review of Order No. 9306, questioning not the change in method of computation but the legality of the two-month transition adjustment. This adjustment awarded the affected utilities the amounts that would have been collected in April and May under the former system, and the public counsel asserts that with this adjustment the companies are recovering twice for these two months. From my…