Connecticut Natural Gas Corp. v. Department of Public Utility Control

This is an administrative appeal by the plaintiff, the Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation, from an August 6, 2008 final decision of the defendant department of public utility control (department) ordering the plaintiff to make an interim rate reduction.

The record contains the following facts relevant to the plaintiffs appeal. On March 14,2007, the department approved the plaintiffs then existing rates, permitting a 10.10 percent return on equity. Under General Statutes § 16-19 (g), if a public service company has six consecutive months of return on equity in excess of one percentage point…