Power Lines 102 | 11 Become a Rate Case Intervenor One of the first potential steps in challenging a utility The ability to participate in discovery may be one corporation in a rate case is to obtain intervenor status in of the strongest advantages of joining a rate case as the case. [...] By organizing issues of rate design and corporate return on investment and taking action outside the formal process during a and present the information in a more entertaining rate case, campaigners can bring attention not just to the and accessible manner than in the dry, governmentally- immediate issues of a possible rate hike, but also engage administered and utility-dominated proceeding before. [...] Op-ed columns or letters to the editor in local newspapers also are an effective way to communicate to a Campaigners should work to extend their confrontation with the utility company out of the conference rooms and video call meetings and onto terrain where they have the upper hand Power Lines 102 | 15 Continuing the fight after a rate case has concluded Organizing opposition to a utility rate hi. [...] The group is bringing the Peoples to make the plan a technical reality forces PECO to Energy Plan to PECO with specific ideas of what they’d take this plan seriously and helps to support the PUC like to see in the proposal to the PUC. [...] housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in To publicize the importance of ongoing rate cases and to Buffalo” has led the organization into confrontations mobilize the community to stand up to corporate rate with both National Fuel and National Grid, the gas and hike proposals, PUSH Buffalo has used neighborhood electric utility corp.
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