In re Application of Columbus S. Power Co.

{¶ 1} In the case below, the Public Utilities Commission allowed the American Electric Power operating companies (“AEP”) to recover certain costs arising from a pair of discounted-rate arrangements. Industrial Energy Users-Ohio (“IEU”) opposed AEP’s application and now appeals. IEU fails to demonstrate reversible error, however, and we affirm.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

{¶ 2} As previously ordered by the commission, AEP had been providing service to a pair of manufacturing customers at discounted rates. 1 “[T]he difference between what AEP would have collected from [these customers]…