Sen. Juan M. Ayuyu, chairman of the committee, said CUC did not comply with the Commission on Public Utilities Commission’s order to reduce the power rate when the gasoline price on island went down by 10 cents two months ago.
Before the gas prices went up again last month, Ayuyu said consumers could have saved some money had the CUC applied for a reduction of its power rate pursuant to the order CPUC issued in April.
Ayuyu, Ind.-Rota, noted that reducing the power rate in the event of a gas price rollback was one of the conditions when CPUC approved CUC’s request to increase its rate earlier this year.
CUC made the request in light of the continuous increase in gas prices from December last year to May 2011.
In his letter, Ayuyu asked CUC Executive Director Abe Malae to explain why CUC failed to abide by CPUC’s April 2011 order.
“The Senate PUTC committee is very concerned about this issue and how the customers are affected by CUC’s non-compliance of the CPUC order,” Ayuyu said.
