Rotunda Rumblings

No more sneak peeks: The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has put an end to its controversial policy of allowing utilities to review draft audits into their activities – which gave them a chance to push for unfavorable language to be softened or deleted before the audits were made public. As Jeremy Pelzer reports , the PUCO will instead, going forward, only allow utilities to see third-party audit reports once they’re completed, and give them a week to request (but not demand) redactions of proprietary information (but nothing else) before the audit is made public. A spokesman for the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, which sought the policy change, hailed the move as a “sea change” in transparency for the PUCO.

Twist and shout: A bipartisan House bill that would prohib

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