Ames v. Public Utilities Commission (S. California Edison Co.)

In a petition for review of decisions concerning aspects of a utility rate approval process on the ground that the defendant erred by approving certain revenue allocation and rate design settlement agreements submitted by real party in interest, decisions of the defendant are affirmed where petitioner’s arguments that the effect of the approved agreements is to unreasonably flatten electricity rates for large power customers by reducing the rate differential between peak and non-peak hours, and that a commissioner should have been disqualified from participation in the pertinent proceedings fail.