The commission’s sewer charges reach more than 395,000 residents and about 7,655 businesses in the Providence and Blackstone Valley areas. The baseline the PUC accepts will frame NBC’s next request, for rates starting July 1, 2027.
Before a utility can ask regulators for more money, it has to pick a year to measure itself against. The Narragansett Bay Commission picked one Monday, and it is not the year the rules point to by default.
In a miscellaneous petition filed with the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission in Docket 26-40-WW, the commission asks to use fiscal year 2027 (July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027) as the “test year” for what it calls an Abbreviated Filing it says it will make later. The rates from that filing would cover fiscal 2028, which begins July 1, 2027…