Docket No. D-06-13

Joint Petition for Purchase and Sale of Assets by the Narragansett Electric Co. d/b/a National Grid and Southern Union Company - Docket No. D-06-13

Status of Docket: Closed.

Division of Public Utilities and Carriers issues Report and Order No. 18676 approving the purchase by the Narragansett Electric Company of the assets associated with the regulated gas distribution business owned and operated by Southern Union Company in Rhode Island as the New Gas Company (7/25/06)
Joint Petition for the approval Narragansett Electric Co. purchase of the assets associated with regulated gas distribution business, New England Gas Co., that is owned and operated by Southern Union Company (filed on 3/16/06). The filing incorporates the following testimony and exhibits in support of the petition:
- Exhibit 1 - Purchase and Sale Agreement between Southern Union and National Grid USA dated February 16, 2006
- Exhibit 2 - Testimony of Ronald T. Gerwatowski
- Exhibit 3 - Testimony of Richand N. Marshall
- Exhibit 4 - Filing of Name Change in New England Company's tariffs. Clean and Redlined Tariffs
Narragansett Electric Co. - Rebuttal testimony of witnesses Ronald T. Gerwatowski and Michael D. Laflamme (6/23/06)
Division of Public Utilities ("Division") issues Notice of Deadline to Intervene. Deadline to file a Motion to Intervene is April 10, 2006
The following parties filed a Motion to Intervene
- City of Providence
- City of East Providence
- Patrick C. Lynch on behalf of the Office of Attorney General
- Town of Tiverton Residents
- Town of Tiverton
- George Wiley Center
- The Energy Council of Rhode Island
- United Steel Workers of America Local 12431
- Department of Environmental Management
Southern Union Co. - Response and objection to the various motions to intervene filed by the parties (4/21/06)
Narragansett Electric - Response to the various motions to intervene filed by the parties (4/21/06)
Division of Public Utilities issues a decision, Order No. 18591, in response to the various motions to intervenve filed by the parties listed above (5/4/06)
Division of Public Utilities issues Procedural Schedule for docket. Evidentiary hearings scheduled June 29 & June 30, 2006 at 9:00 A.M. at Division's office.
Division issues Amended Procedural Schedule (on 6/19/06)
Attorney General -Motion to compel more responsive answers and/or document production directed to Southern Union; and request to amend hearing schedule (5/19/06)
Southern Union - Reply to Attorney General's request to modify discovery schedule (5/23/06)
Attorney General - Correspondence to Southern Union concerning discovery schedule (5/24/06)
Southern Union - Correspondence to Attorney General concerning discovery schedule (5/25/06)
Division issues Order No. 18620 granting the Attorney General's request for extension of deadline on discovery (5/26/06)
City of East Providence - Motion for Stay any action in the National Grid and Southern Union merger proceeding and request for an emergency hearing (5/26/06)
Division issues Order No. 18626 denying the City of East Providence's Motion for Stay and Request for an Emergency Hearing (6/1/06)
Town of Tiverton - Response indicating that it has no objection to the City of East Providence's Motion To Stay and Request for Emergency Hearing (6/6/06)
George Wiley Center - Motion for extension of time to submit testimony by 6/23/06
Division issues Order No. 18641 in response to the several motions to compel the utilities to respond to data requests (6/16/06)
Division issues Order No. 18657 denying the Attorney General's Motion to Compel Southern Union Document Production & Request for Preliminary Examination (6/27/06)
Division issues Order No. 18659 denying the Attorney General's Motion to Compel Southern Union to Answer Third Set of Data Requests (6/30/06)

Testimony & Exhibits of the Division of Public Utilities Advocacy and Intervernors':

Division Advocacy - Testimony of David J. Effron (6/19/06)
Division Advocacy - Testimony of Bruce R. Oliver (6/19/06)
Attorney General - Testimony of Philip L. Sussler (6/26/06)
George Wiley Center - Testimony of John Howat (6/26/06)
George Wiley Center - Supplemental Exhbits (6/27/06)
Town of Tiverton - Testimony of David Sousa (6/26/06)

Post Hearing Briefs by the Parties

Narragansett Electric Co. - Brief - (7/11/06)
Southern Union Co. - Brief (7/11/06)
Attorney General - Brief (7/11/06)
Division of Public Utilities Advocacy Section - Brief (7/11/06)
George Wiley Center - Brief (7/11/06)
Town of Tiverton (7/11/06)

Narragansett Electric & Southern Union's Responses to Interrogatories: