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permit employment of qualified persons to recommend measures to the commission and gives the commission authority to approve, disapprove or alter the utility’s program in the public interest, should it be found that “inefficient or wasteful practices, procedures, designs or planning are found to exist.”
Potomac Edison claimed its greatly expanded power supply to Sperryville is for
86.4%