Press Release

PUC Releases Agenda for Second Special Hearing on Trends in the Wholesale Electricity Markets

Published on 10/22/2008

Filed under: Electric

HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) today released the final agenda for a special public hearing scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 6, to discuss the current and future wholesale electricity markets. The hearing will be on similar topics as those addressed during the previously announced PUC en banc hearing on Thursday, Oct. 23, although different speakers and viewpoints will be represented.

The hearing will be held at 12:30 p.m. in Hearing Room 1 of the Commonwealth Keystone Building in Harrisburg. 

The five PUC Commissioners will conduct the en banc hearing to solicit comments from the American Public Power Association, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, Alcoa Inc., the law firm of McNees, Wallace and Nurick, and Kenneth Rose, Ph.D., an independent energy consultant.  The secretarial letter and formal agenda for the hearing are now available.

As part of the informal, en banc hearing process, Commissioners will pose questions to the speakers after their comments.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission balances the needs of consumers and utilities to ensure safe and reliable utility service at reasonable rates; protect the public interest; educate consumers to make independent and informed utility choices; further economic development; and foster new technologies and competitive markets in an environmentally sound manner.

For recent news releases, audio of select Commission proceedings or more information about the PUC, visit our Web site at www.puc.state.pa.us.

Docket Number M-2008-2066901

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