Mid-Hudson Streetlight Consortium and CLP submit a request to the PSC to eliminate the field survey fee charged when a municipality applies for street lights in new locations.
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“The [Mid-Hudson Streetlight Consortium] applauds the commission’s ruling that companies cannot charge municipalities for a field audit, since it is the responsibility of the companies to keep accurate records of the facilities they own,” Jennifer Metzger, director of Citizens for Local Power and a member of the Rosendale Town Board, wrote in a letter to the Public Service Commission.
“We believe that the commission’s ruling ... should be consistently applied across existing tariffs and proposed amendments,” Metzger wrote.
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“We do not believe there is a justifiable basis for requiring municipal customers to pay for a field survey prior to purchasing the streetlight system,” Metzger’s letter says.