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Article: Rate hike request draws heat: ; 651 residents signed petitions, 45 wrote letters describing hard times on low incomes
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- Charleston Daily Mail
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- March 18, 2009
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Appalachian Power's request for a 43 percent rate increase is
generating a lot of heat from citizens and large consumers of
electricity.
Since the American Electric Power subsidiary filed its $442
million rate hike request on March 9, the state Public Service
Commission has received petitions opposing the increase with 651
signatures plus letters written by 45 individuals.
The petitions ask that the Public Service Commission deny
Appalachian's request "because of the undue hardship of this request
that families will endure." Tom Lester of Verner, Jenny Picard of
Man and Vada Kidd of Walton submitted the petitions.
Many of the letters received by the commission talk about being
on fixed ...