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Temple staff recommend suspending Encore rate request; city faces potential $483,000 annual increase
Summary
City staff told the council at a July 17 workshop that Encore Energy filed a rate request that would raise transmission and distribution charges and a separate charge tied to streetlighting; staff recommended suspending the request and asking the cities’ steering committee to review it.
City staff recommended the City Council suspend an Encore Energy rate request and let a multi‑city steering committee review the filing, city staff said during a July 17 budget workshop.
The recommendation follows Encore’s June 26 filing. City staff presented the company’s request as a systemwide transmission and distribution increase (13%) and a 51% increase in the item described to the council as the "streetlighting" or related pass‑through charge. Staff said the combined request would raise the city’s annual electric expense for municipal accounts from about $947,000 to roughly $1.43 million — an additional $483,000 per year if Encore’s filing were…
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