(“It has long been the policy of our courts to recognize that the setting of utility rates must take into account the interests of utility consumers as well as utility shareholders.”). The consideration of consumer interests in setting just and reasonable rates fulfills the protective role the constitutional framers envisioned in creating the Commission and clothing it with exclusive power to set rates and regulate utilities. See Arizona Corp. Comm’n v. State ex rel. Woods, 171 Ariz. 286, 290, 830 P.2d 807, 811 (1992) (“The founders expected the Commission to provide both effective regulation of public service corporations and consumer protection against overreaching by those corporations.”); State v. Tucson Gas, Elec. Light & Power Co., 15 Ariz. 294, 306-08, 138 P. 781, 786 (1914) (<HOLDING>). ¶31 Bearing in mind the Commission’s duty to
holding that the texas legislature limited jurisdiction to the public utilities commission for disputes about rates operations and services of an electric utility by stating that the commission has exclusive original jurisdiction over these issues citing tex utilcode  32001 west 2007 holding that a debtor has primarily consumer debts if the aggregate amount of consumer debt is more than 50 of the total debt holding that the commission applied its technical knowledge and expertise to the facts presented and the commissioners decision  should be afforded deference when the commission conducted investigations reviewed accounting practices and solicited comments from several agencies and organizations involved in the regulatory process in the course of balancing the interests of the public utility and the public to reach its decision holding commission created and given full power to investigate hear and determine disputes between utility and general public primarily for the interest of the consumer holding commission cannot authorize utility to increase rates based solely on return on stock and warning of potential danger of tying rates to one factor over which the utility exercises total control  without regard for the interests of the consumer