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Public Services Commission outlines staggered rate investigations, says Waste Management owes assessments
Summary
The Public Services Commission told a legislative committee on March 24 that it will stagger a series of rate and regulatory investigations in 2025 — beginning with an electric‑system inquiry — and said recent statutory language and precedent make it unlikely that the Waste Management Authority’s challenge to annual PSC assessments will succeed.
The Virgin Islands Public Services Commission (PSC) told the Senate Committee on Government Operations on March 24 that it plans to stagger a slate of rate and regulatory investigations across the territory in 2025, starting with an electric‑system rate case that will open in early April and addressing water, wastewater and solid‑waste dockets later in the year.
Sandra Satori, executive director of the PSC, said the commission has established several dockets and timelines: docket 706 to review electricity rates (with the formal process beginning April 8), docket 700/706‑series activities for water and wastewater, and dockets 704/708 to investigate solid waste and wastewater rates now that the Waste Management Authority has come under PSC jurisdiction following Act Number 8,471. The PSC said it will stagger investigations so as not to overburden staff and utilities and will engage external consultants for technical assistance where…
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