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Rocky Mountain Power requests rehearing on partial electricity rate hike, calls order ‘shortsighted’
After the Utah Public Service Commission only granted a small portion of Rocky Mountain Power’s proposed electricity rate hike, the utility is challenging the decision, arguing that denying its ability to fully recover cost increases is “shortsighted” and threatens the long-term reliability, safety and resiliency of the state’s electric grid. Last April, the public service commission approved a 4.7% increase in residential electric rates, only a quarter of the 18.1% bump the utility had requested last August after revising an original 30.5% proposal that dismayed Utah ...
