Kleen Energy Systems, LLC v. Commissioner of Energy & Environmental Protection

Summary

The court held that the regulatory authority lacked subject matter jurisdiction to resolve a contractual pricing dispute because the dispute required only interpretation of a privately negotiated contract and did not require application of a specific statutory provision. The authority also lacked jurisdiction under the statute permitting it to alter its decisions because no statute authorized modification of the executed agreement or required the disputed contractual terms. The judgment sustaining the plaintiff's appeal from the declaratory ruling was ordered, while dismissal of the appeal from the remand order was affirmed because that appeal was moot.