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Posted: 4/18/2024 9:05:42 PM EDT
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If you're one of Rocky Mountain Power's 144,511 customers in Wyoming, your monthly electricity bill may soon increase again. For the second year in a row, the utility a division of Warren Buffet's PacifiCorp says it underestimated costs for coal and natural gas to fuel power plants and to buy electricity on the open market, and it wants to tap Wyoming ratepayers to make up the difference. Rocky Mountain Power on Monday filed for a 12.3% rate increase that if approved would tap Wyoming customers for a one-time $86.4 million, mostly due to higher-than-expected fuel costs in 2023. If Wyoming regulators approve the full amount, the company's typical residential customer will experience a 9.3% increase, or about $12 more to their monthly bill, beginning July 1 and lasting for 12 months, according to Rocky Mountain Power. The utility's large industrial customers in the state trona mines, oil and natural gas refineries, for example consume about 70% of the electricity it provides in Wyoming and would pay a higher percentage, according to filings with the state. In another request filed earlier this month, Rocky Mountain Power is asking permission to cancel a ratepayer credit derived from the President Donald Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act because it is set to expire, resulting in another 4.2% hike, or about $29.9 million. That's not all. |
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Originally Posted By mistro07: #OFFGRID #FTHEGOVERNMENT Absolutely agreed. Originally Posted By Staggunner: RMP got the rest of their requested 30% increase last week. I think the main reason they want these increases is to build transmission lines to new wind farms. Somebody has to pay for that and it's gonna be the residential customers. I can see two of those monstrosities from my house. What a fuckin' waste. If they had put a nuke plant in the same spot, I'd smile every time I look that way. Most of that wind-generated power is going out of state anyway, isn't it? |
"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
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Originally Posted By lew: Absolutely agreed. I can see two of those monstrosities from my house. What a fuckin' waste. If they had put a nuke plant in the same spot, I'd smile every time I look that way. Most of that wind-generated power is going out of state anyway, isn't it? Originally Posted By lew: Originally Posted By mistro07: #OFFGRID #FTHEGOVERNMENT Absolutely agreed. Originally Posted By Staggunner: RMP got the rest of their requested 30% increase last week. I think the main reason they want these increases is to build transmission lines to new wind farms. Somebody has to pay for that and it's gonna be the residential customers. I can see two of those monstrosities from my house. What a fuckin' waste. If they had put a nuke plant in the same spot, I'd smile every time I look that way. Most of that wind-generated power is going out of state anyway, isn't it? I used to be a wind tech and can see far more than 2 from my home, but I agree 100000% with everything you said, esp about nuclear power. |
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Originally Posted By Claytonhoneyberry: I used to be a wind tech and can see far more than 2 from my home, but I agree 100000% with everything you said, esp about nuclear power. There are 20+ more on the other side of the hill to my north. Thank God I can't see them. Good thing the blades are recyclable. Oh... wait... they're not. A few of my wife's patients are turbine techs. Everything about those turbines is a clusterfuck. Hell, I want a small nuke "power cell" or whatever on my property. |
"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken