Word: dpu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DPU has encouraged but not required the local company to use the new system...
...state attorney general's office was represented at the hearing and has presented a brief to the DPU taking issue with the new rates. Barrett said regulatory agencies such as the DPU tend to resist political pressure and that the agency is very autonomous with a powerful chairman...
Barrett described DPU's response to criticism as "fiercely protective of current policy" and added that although it acknowledges the effect on small users, the agency "sees some value in a pure, economic approach to pricing...
Barrett encouraged CELCO to embrace the "principle of continuity," and continue pressuring the Massachussetts DPU to reconsider the burden it would place on the "small person." The Council voted to encourage the company to examine the Attorney General's testimony before the DPU in favor of "shrinking base rates" to relieve smaller consumers...
...1970s, said Barrett, "the DPU revieweved itself as pro-consumer" and attentive to the prevention of "sudden rate shock" like that facing Cambridge residents now. Yet in recent years the department has used "abstract economic decision-making" which has resulted in a system of charging lower rates for those who consume the most, he said...