Utilities Criticize NCTA Pole Attachment Arguments

Utility companies Dominion Energy and Xcel Energy this week slammed comments in an NCTA letter last month on pole attachments. “NCTA demands a thirty day timeline for approval of all attacher-proposed third-party contractors, coupled with a ‘deemed approved’ remedy applicable in any case where the requested timeline is not met,” said a filing in docket 17-84. “NCTA’s proposal is contrary to critical factual determinations made by the Commission in its 2018 Pole Attachment Order, unnecessary, and completely at odds with the safety practices, processes, and policies of electric utility companies.”