Paducah Power System Public Hearing Tonight for Possible Rate Increase

WKMS | By Whitney Jones

Published March 18, 2013 at 3:29 PM CDT

Paducah Power System residential customers may have another rate increase starting in April.

PPS spokeswoman Andrea Underwood says the proposed residential 7.5 percent jump would begin April 1. This proposed increase follows a 5 percent November increase. PPS is also proposing another rate increase in April 2014 for its residential customers.

Underwood says the increase is due to a depressed market for industrial power, which limits how much excess power PPS can sell.

The Paducah Electric Plant Board holds a public hearing tonight at 5 p.m. in Paducah to discuss the results of a third party rate study.

The proposed rate changes would net a 5 percent increase in revenue for the utility. The electric plant board makes its decision March 25^th.

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Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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