Update: The Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel reiterated its position that DP&L is being uncooperative in the discovery process. The parties are currently engaged in a dispute about information pertaining to, among other things, DP&L’s operational and financial condition. In its procedural motion filed in the ESP case, DP&L also requested an aggressive procedural schedule for its distribution rate case. Although DP&L’s distribution rate case was filed first, DP&L is asking that the ESP hearing go forward first and is asking that many of the deadlines for both cases occur simultaneously. Basically, DP&L is asking that both cases be compacted and litigated simultaneously, the majority of the litigation for both cases occurring within four months. DP&L is requesting that the hearing on the distribution case commence on September 6, 2016 so that rates can go in effect on January 1, 2017.