Six more power companies have joined the fray over the...
Six more power companies have joined the fray over the FCC’s pole attachment order. Calling themselves the “Coalition of Concerned Utilities,” Consumers Energy, Detroit Edison, FirstEnergy, Hawaiian Electric, NSTAR and Pepco filed a petition to reconsider the April order. The…
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coalition said it has concerns over make-ready deadlines, public safety and “issues” over attacher rearrangements, joint pole ownership and refunds. “All of the Coalition’s members, like other electric utilities across the country, are responsible for the safe and efficient delivery of electric services to their consumers. None is in a position to sacrifice electric system safety and reliability as a cost of making its distribution poles available on an expedited basis for use by communications attachers. The Coalition urges the Commission to reconsider its rules accordingly,” the group said in a filing released Friday on dockets 07-245 and 09-51. The commission has already declined a request to reconsider the order and other utility companies are already suing in federal court to overturn the rules (CD June 3 p1).