State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. North Carolina Textile Manufacturers Ass'n

MORRIS, Chief Judge.

All three of the appellants have excepted to the failure of the Commission to combine the fuel adjustment clause proceeding (Docket No. E-2, Sub 402, our No. 8110UC392) with the general rate case, and all three have assigned this as error and have brought the exceptions forward and argued them. They argue here, as they did in No. 8110UC392, that to allow an increase in rates based on increased fuel costs in an expedited proceeding under G.S. 62434(e) where there is no provision for inquiry into the reasonableness of the increased fuel costs rather than in a general rate…