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Ohio Consumers' Counsel warns AEP Ohio rate increases could raise Lima bills; urges residents to attend PUCO hearings
Summary
Angela O'Brien of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel told the Lima City Council that AEP Ohio has filed a distribution-rate case (PUCO case 25392) that could add about $4 a month to the typical household's distribution bill and that local public hearings and comments to the PUCO will be key opportunities for residents to weigh in.
Angela O’Brien, deputy consumers’ counsel for the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel, told the Lima City Council during its meeting that AEP Ohio’s pending application at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) could raise electric bills for local residents. O’Brien said AEP Ohio’s requested change to electric distribution rates would amount to about $4 a month for an average customer — roughly $50 a year — and that other components of electric bills (supply and transmission) are rising as well.
O’Brien said the Consumers’ Counsel has intervened in PUCO case number 25392 and is analyzing AEP’s filing. “When you put them all together it amounts to a drastic increase in your electric utility bills,” she said. She described three drivers of…
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