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Public Utilities: Infrastructure-Replacement Surcharge-Sufficiency of Evidence
Staff Report//November 22, 2019//
Public Utilities: Infrastructure-Replacement Surcharge-Sufficiency of Evidence
Staff Report//November 22, 2019//
Where the Office of Public Counsel and a gas utility challenged an order disallowing $4.1 million in infrastructure-replacement surcharges, arguing that the utility could not recover costs incurred to replace case iron and bare steel mains and service lines, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the public utility must show that the components were worn out or deteriorated, and evidence that such components would become worn out or deteriorated at some point was not sufficient.
Judgment is reversed and remanded.
In the Matter of the Application of Spire Missouri Inc. v. The Office of Public Counsel (MLW No. 74161/Case No. WD82302 – 15 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Gabbert, J.) Appealed from the Public Service Commission (Jennifer L. Heintz, Jefferson City, for respondent) (John A. Clizer, Jefferson City, and John Rehmann II and Jeremiah Nixon, St. Louis, for appellants).
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