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Wisconsin PSC denies Cooley Cap single-meter waiver after split vote
Summary
The Public Service Commission denied Cooley Cap Inc.'s request for a permanent waiver of individual-metering rules for a proposed housing project, with commissioners split over whether the project met the high statutory standard; one commissioner dissented.
The Public Service Commission on March 6 denied Cooley Cap Inc.'s request for a permanent waiver of Wisconsin Administrative Code PSC 113.0803 for a proposed housing project (Docket 4220-EI-113), after a substantive, nearly two-hour discussion among commissioners.
Commissioners said the request comes amid an ongoing rulemaking to update the meter-waiver standard and stressed the commission must apply the existing law. Chair Strand said the commission must avoid creating an inconsistent regulatory “patchwork” while the rule is being rewritten and that the record lacked “strong, real, actual evidence and justification” to grant a permanent waiver.
The waiver request sought an exemption under PSC…
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