Kentucky General Counsel
Kentucky PSC
"We do placement of cell towers in areas that do not have local planning and zoning."
The States
Kentucky Executive Directors
Kentucky PSC
"We tag-team a lot of work. She takes the rate cases, and I take all the administrative-type cases."
Commissioner Talina Mathews
Kentucky PSC
"We are responsible for setting rates that are fair, just and reasonable, not accepting rates that someone else has agreed to. That’s a culture change from the utility perspective."
Vice Chair Robert Cicero
Kentucky PSC
"We are trying to bring a private sector perspective to the process."
Chair Michael Schmitt
Kentucky PSC
"We developed a pilot program allowing periodic rate increases without filing a full-blown rate case, to reduce the time to process rural electric cooperative rate cases."
A Day at the Kentucky Public Service Commission
Eleven Interviews
PUF met with the PSC's three commissioners and its staff.
Broadband Policy Coordinator William Vallee
Office of Consumer Counsel
Google Fiber often stated its greatest expense in providing affordable broadband internet access service across the U.S. is pole attachment procedures, costs, market entry hurdles.
Analysts, Examiners and an Economist, Connecticut Consumer Counsel
Office of Consumer Counsel
Interviews with Financial Analysis Supervisor Richard Sobolewski, Utilities Examiners Dave Thompson and Tyra Anne Peluso, and Economist John Viglione.
Attorneys, Connecticut Consumer Counsel
Office of Consumer Counsel
Interviews with principal Attorney Joseph Rosenthal and staff attorneys Lauren Henault Bidra and Andrew Minikowski.
Elin Swanson Katz, Connecticut Consumer Counsel
Office of Consumer Counsel
“All of us are on the edge of the frontier right now. There’s something going on in electric that’s never happened before.”