{"id":37159,"date":"2015-07-29T22:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crpud.net\/?p=37159"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:22:46","slug":"board-calls-for-public-hearing-on-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/board-calls-for-public-hearing-on-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Calls for Public Hearing on Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 29, 2015 \u2013 At their July 21 meeting, the PUD\u2019s Board of Directors called for a public hearing on August 18 to take comments on a proposed 4.6% overall rate increase.\u00a0<\/b>The rate change is the result of increasing wholesale power costs and lower-than-expected revenues due to the mild winter.<\/p>\n

Budget Reductions Made<\/h3>\n

In order to reduce the amount of the increase, the PUD has eliminated 7 unfilled positions and cancelled or deferred about $740,000 in projects, capital improvements and other expenses.\u00a0 These changes represent a 10.8% decrease in controllable expenses for 2015.<\/p>\n

Impacts to Customers<\/h3>\n

For residential customers, an increase in the monthly customer charge from $8 to $12 is proposed, and the cost per kilowatt-hour would remain the same. Customers who qualify for the Special Waiver Program would begin paying a $2 customer charge. For small general service customers, the monthly customer charge would increase from $15 to $20, and the cost per kilowatt-hour would remain the same.<\/p>\n

Public comments are welcome at the August 18 hearing, which begins at 6 p.m. It will be held in the Community Room at that PUD office, located at 64001 Columbia River Highway, Deer Island, Oregon.<\/p>\n

The rate changes, if approved, would take effect on October 1, 2015.<\/p>\n

Summary of Proposed Changes – Residential\/Small Commercial Customers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nResidential
\nCustomers
\n(RS 10)<\/th>\n		Low-Income
\nCustomers
\n(RS 13)<\/th>\n		General Service – Small
\n(RS 20)<\/th>\n		General Service – Small Non-Profit
\n(RS 22)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Customer Charge<\/strong>
\n(per Month)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n		Increasing from
\n$8 to $12<\/td>\n		Increasing from
\n$0 to $2<\/td>\n		Increasing from
\n$15 to $20<\/td>\n		Increasing from $8 to $12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Energy Charge<\/strong>
\n(per kWh used)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n		Unchanged at $0.064<\/td>\nUnchanged at $0.064<\/td>\nUnchanged at $0.068<\/td>\nUnchanged at $0.064<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Summary of Proposed Changes – Large General Service\/Industrial Customers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nGeneral Service – Large
\n(RS 24)<\/th>\n		Primary Voltage
\n(RS 30)<\/th>\n		Transmission Voltage
\n(RS 40)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Customer Charge<\/strong>
\n(per Month)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n		Increasing from
\n$40 to $50<\/td>\n		Increasing from
\n$50 to $80<\/td>\n		Increasing from
\n$100 to $150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Energy Charge<\/strong>
\n(per kWh used)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n		Unchanged at $0.051<\/td>\nUnchanged at $0.044<\/td>\nUnchanged at $0.035<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Demand Charge
\n(per kW-mo)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n		Increasing from $4.80 to $5.45<\/td>\nIncreasing from $4.95 to $5.75<\/td>\nIncreasing from $3.00 to $3.90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 29, 2015 \u2013 At their July 21 meeting, the PUD\u2019s Board of Directors called for a public hearing on August 18 to take comments on a proposed 4.6% overall rate increase.\u00a0The rate change is the result of increasing wholesale power costs and lower-than-expected revenues due to the mild winter. Budget Reductions Made In order […]\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crpud.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}