OLYMPIA — Puget Sound Energy customers can comment on the company’s proposed rate increase during a public hearing in Olympia on Tuesday.
PSE serves about 1 million electrical users in eastern Jefferson County and in 10 other Western Washington counties.
This is PSE’s first rate case following the sale of the utility to the Macquarie investor consortium.
Tuesday’s public hearing before the state Utilities and Transportation Commission is from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Commission’s Hearing Room on the second floor of the Richard Hemstad Building, 1300 S. Evergreen Park Drive S.W.
PSE’s rate request would cost its users about $113 million.
It is the company’s 10th request since 2002 to raise electric rates.
The Public Counsel Section of the state Attorney General’s Office has challenged the rate hike.
Public Counsel attorneys said that no rate increase is warranted and that a rate reduction may actually be appropriate.
The three-member UTC will make a decision on PSE’s rate-increase request early this spring.
New rates, if approved, would take effect in April.
The public can also submit written comments to UTC, P.O. Box 47250, Olympia, WA, 98504 or via e-mail to comments@utc.wa.gov.
Include name and mailing address, the name of the company (PSE) and docket no. UE-090704/UG-090705.
