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Updated Jun 1, 2026Utility Landscape
Rocky Mountain Power (PacifiCorp)
IOUMajority of Utah, covering most of the state outside Salt Lake City municipal service areas
Utah's dominant electric IOU; filed a significant multi-year rate case in 2023-2024 seeking large increases tied to wildfire mitigation, transmission upgrades, and coal plant retirement costs. Faces ongoing scrutiny over wildfire liability exposure and its Integrated Resource Plan transition away from coal.
Questar Gas (Dominion Energy Utah)
IOUWasatch Front and much of northern and central Utah natural gas distribution
Recently rebranded under Dominion Energy; subject to rate cases focused on pipeline safety capital recovery and customer growth in northern Utah. Commission scrutiny has increased around long-term gas infrastructure prudency given state and federal clean energy trajectories.
Utah Gas (Southwest Gas)
IOUSouthern Utah counties including Washington, Iron, and Kane counties
Smaller IOU serving fast-growing St. George metro area; has pursued rate adjustments to recover infrastructure expansion costs. Subject to PSCU oversight on GRIP-type infrastructure riders.
Provo City Power
muniProvo city limits and portions of southern Utah County
Municipally owned electric utility largely exempt from PSCU rate jurisdiction but participates in broader wholesale power market discussions; has pursued renewable portfolio expansion through power purchase agreements.
Bridger Valley Electric Association
coopUinta Basin and northeastern Utah rural areas
Rural electric cooperative serving sparse, energy-intensive agricultural and oil-and-gas customers; rate structures subject to PSCU jurisdiction; reliability investment pressures driven by aging distribution infrastructure.
Moon Lake Electric Association
coopDuchesne and Uintah counties in the Uinta Basin
Serves oil and gas production load in the Uinta Basin; has experienced load volatility tied to energy commodity cycles. PSCU has reviewed cost-of-service allocations between residential and commercial-industrial customer classes.
Key Issues
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Rocky Mountain Power general rate case outcome and implementation: The Commission is managing compliance filings and potential rehearing petitions following the 2025 rate case order, with disputed cost recovery for wildfire mitigation capital and the Deer Creek and Hunter coal plant transition timelines central to ongoing proceedings.
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Rocky Mountain Power Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) review: The 2025 IRP filing, which proposes accelerated coal retirement and large-scale wind, solar, and battery storage additions, is under active Commission review with intervenor challenges focused on resource adequacy, ratepayer cost prudency, and reliability under Western grid stress conditions.
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Dominion Energy Utah infrastructure cost recovery and decarbonization pressure: The Commission is evaluating Dominion's pipeline safety and system modernization rider requests against a backdrop of growing legislative and stakeholder debate over long-term natural gas infrastructure investment prudency and potential stranded asset risk.
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Net metering and distributed generation compensation reform: PSCU has an open docket examining the successor tariff structure for rooftop solar customers as Utah's residential solar adoption accelerates, with utilities pushing for value-of-solar frameworks and solar advocates opposing reductions to retail-rate credits.
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Wildfire cost allocation and liability framework: Following multistate wildfire litigation against PacifiCorp, the Commission has opened inquiry into whether Utah ratepayers should bear any portion of wildfire damage settlements and what forward-looking wildfire mitigation cost recovery standards should apply to Rocky Mountain Power.
Upcoming
Rocky Mountain Power wildfire mitigation cost recovery compliance filing deadline (estimated) — Commission order from 2025 rate case required RMP to submit detailed accounting of approved wildfire capital expenditures; intervenor comment period anticipated to follow within 30 days.
Rocky Mountain Power 2025 Integrated Resource Plan evidentiary hearing (estimated) — Commission technical hearing on IRP resource mix, coal retirement schedule, and transmission upgrade cost-benefit analysis; Western Resource Advocates and Utah Division of Public Utilities expected as active intervenors.
Dominion Energy Utah annual pipeline safety and system integrity rider true-up filing deadline (estimated) — Annual reconciliation and prospective rate adjustment filing required under existing Commission-approved rider tariff; consumer advocate review period follows.
Net metering successor tariff final order anticipated (estimated) — Commission has been deliberating on distributed generation compensation structure reform since 2025 petition; final order expected by Q4 2026 with potential phased implementation of value-of-solar or avoided-cost rate structures affecting existing and new solar customers.
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Staff
11| Name | Title | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Yvonne Hogle | Executive Staff Director | (801) 530-6716 |
| Gary Widerburg | Commission Secretary | (801) 530-6713 |
| Michele Beck | Director, Office of Consumer Services | (801) 530-6716 |
| John Delaney | Legal Counsel / Administrative Law Judge | (801) 530-6724 |
| Jacob Gudmundsen | Utility Technical Consultant | (801) 530-6707 |
| Melinda Krahenbuhl Ph.D | Technical Consultant | (801) 530-6711 |
| Xian Li | Utility Technical Consultant | (801) 530-6715 |
| Eric Martinson | Utility Technical Consultant | (801) 530-6770 |
| Fred Nass | Paralegal | (801) 530-6716 |
| Melissa Paschal | Accounting Technician/Paralegal | (801) 530-6716 |
| Jacob Richardson | Utility Technical Consultant | (801) 530-6707 |
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