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Posted on September 02, 2008

By Sean CastenWisconsin's five regulated electric utilities have asked to have fuel increases in gas and coal costs automatically passed along to their customers rather than wait until they can file a formal rate case. Their regulator said no. In a bizarre bit of doublespeak, the utilities argued that passing 100 percent of fuel volatility risk along to their customers would be good because: Executives at several Wisconsin utilities said the changes could benefit shareholders and customers by reducing volatility. It certainly would reduce volatility for their shareholders. But cust...

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