Michael W. Hassell

Michael Hassell is a Principal in the Firm's Energy & Utilities Practice Group. He focuses his practice on representing public utilities before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and Pennsylvania's Appellate courts. With more than 30 years of experience representing utilities in rate proceedings, Mr. Hassell has served as lead counsel for several of Pennsylvania's major public water, gas, and electric utilities.

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• Utilities/Energy

• Represented a major electric utility in proceedings to establish default service rates.
• Served as counsel for water, gas and electric utilities in more than three dozen base-rate increase proceedings.
• Served as counsel for several gas utilities in annual purchased gas cost proceedings for more than 20 years.
• Served as counsel for water and gas utilities in proceedings to establish Distribution System Improvement Charges.
• Negotiated settlement of first base-rate proceeding in Pennsylvania to use the fully forecasted rate year provisions of Act 11 of 2012.

• "Fundamentals of Utility Ratemaking in Pennsylvania," Harrisburg, PA (October 2012)