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Consumer advocate seeks clearer agency roles; PUC and DOE caution about stripping investigatory authority
Summary
The Office of the Consumer Advocate asked legislators to reassign investigatory and policy duties to the Department of Energy and limit the Public Utilities Commission to adjudicative roles; the PUC and DOE warned that the proposed change would strip essential investigative authority and raise costs and enforcement risks.
The Office of the Consumer Advocate asked the committee to clarify statutory roles between the Department of Energy and the Public Utilities Commission with House Bill 535, arguing that the 2021 reorganization left ambiguous authority and resulted in procedural inefficiencies that increase costs for ratepayers.
Consumer Advocate Donald Kreese told the committee that experience since the split has shown the DOE and the PUC “talking past each other,” and he recommended statutory language that narrows the commission’s role to adjudication…
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