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Fayetteville staff: SWEPCO rate increase cut in half in settlement; city gets seat at coal‑plant retirement study
Summary
Environmental staff told the council a settlement in the SWEPCO rate case reduced a requested 27.3% residential increase to about 13.8%; the utility also agreed to fund a study that could include early retirements for Flint Creek and to include clean energy procurement commitments. Staff also updated a municipal solar array expected to provide 3.77 MW to the city.
Fayetteville’s environmental director reported progress in the city’s intervenor work in SWEPCO’s rate case and gave the council an update on municipal energy usage and a shared solar project.
Peter Nierngarten said the city objected to SWEPCO’s roughly 27.3% residential rate increase request (about $31 million, partly for Flint Creek coal‑plant upgrades). “The result of that settlement discussion is a reduction in that rate increase…basically cut in half at 13.8%,” he…
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