Union Gas System, Inc. v. KANSAS CORPORATION COMM

Swinehart, J.:

This is an appeal by Union Gas System, Inc. (Union) from a final order of the Kansas Corporation Commission (Commission), wherein the Commission denied in part Union’s request for increase in its natural gas rates.

Union’s rate increase application proceeded in the usual fashion, with the expert witness testimony being prefiled and each party to the action being given the opportunity to cross-examine and conduct redirect examination of the various witnesses.

Union cited several factors as rationale for the requested increase of revenues in the amount of $756,409. These factors…