Arippa V. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

ARIPPA, Mid-Atlantic Power Supply Association (Mid-Atlantic), York County Solid Waste and Refuse Authority (York County), Clean Air Council (Clean Air) and Citizen Power, Inc., (Citizen) appeal from two orders of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission): the first dated May 24, 2001, granting the application filed by GPU, Inc. and its Pennsylvania public utility subsidiaries, Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed) and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec) (collectively, GPU Energy) and FirstEnergy Corp. for the merger of GPU into FirstEnergy and the second dated June 20, 2001, approving the "Settlement Stipulation" proposed by GPU Energy and First Energy joined by the Consumer Advocate (as well as other signatories to the Settlement Stipulation who are not parties to this appeal)*fn3 and accepting a deferral accounting mechanism as a means to recover their increased costs above the rate cap imposed in return for recovering stranded costs under the Electricity Generation Customer Choice and Competition Act (Competition Act).*fn4