California Mutual Water Companies Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission

— This is a proceeding pursuant to section 1756 of the Public Utilities Code to review portions of an order of the Public Utilities Commission affecting the rates of the Southern California Edison Company for the sale and distribution of its electrical energy. (Decision No. 50449, 53 Cal. P.U.C. 385.)

The petitioner California Mutual Water Companies Association is an unincorporated association of mutual water companies. The other petitioners are 18 duly incorporated mutual water companies engaged in pumping and delivering irrigation water to their shareholders and members at cost, and one irrigation district. The mutual water companies and the irrigation district are consumers of electrical energy from Edison’s system. These petitioners had been receiving and paying for electrical energy under a schedule applicable to irrigation pumping facilities only, and designated by Edison as Schedule PAP-2. Under this schedule each was entitled to a conjunctive billing feature which permitted a single facility to receive electrical energy at several metering points but to pay for the total energy consumed as if received through a single meter. As electrical energy was billed at a rate which…