PHOENIX — Dozens of business owners and homeowners beholden to APS electricity rates appeared at a downtown Phoenix hearing room to ask regulators to deny a rate hike for the utility.
APS – the state’s largest regulated monopoly – is seeking to raise average bills for residential customers, churches and schools between 14-16%. The company also seeks to double a grid access charge to rooftop solar customers. They propose a 45% average rate hike for data centers.
“This is not a struggling company. This is a corporation asking for working people to pay more, so shareholders and executives can keep winning,” said Ricardo Reyes of consumer group Vets Forward…