Tell the PSC: Put Ratepayers First
The West Virginia Public Service Commission has proposed rules that risk increasing electric bills for West Virginians. They encourage our utilities to run their power plants even when the power from that is more expensive than buying from the market. West Virginia's monopoly utilities should use the cheapest power available to serve customers, even if it comes from elsewhere on the grid.
Here's what that means for you:
Your electric utility could run its coal-fired power plants almost all of the time, and charge you and your neighbors the extra costs that come from that.
Your electric bills could go up by quite a bit. Already, running coal plants at a loss has cost WV customers millions of dollars annually. If adopted, the rule could require them to double down and run their expensive plants nearly twice as often, at even more of a loss.
The proposal is bad for West Virginians—we don't need to pay higher electric bills than we already do.
Submit a comment to tell the West Virginia Public Service Commission to protect ratepayers.
