Competitive Energy Services, LLC v. Public Utilities Commission

In Competitive Energy Services, LLC v. Public Utilities Commission, 2003 ME 12, P15 (January 30, 2003) the Law Court stated: "First, we determined de novo whether the statute is ambiguous or unambiguous.... Then we either review the Commission's construction of the ambiguous statute for reasonableness or plainly construe the unambiguous statute.... An agency's interpretation of an ambiguous statute it administers is reviewed with great deference and will be upheld unless the statute plainly compels a contrary result".