Alabama Power said this week it would stop charging customers for advertising costs except those related to public safety, following a request from the Alabama Public Service Commission, the state utility regulator.
A state law passed in the spring will require the utility to stop using customer money for advertising by 2029. But PSC President Cynthia Almond moved to ask the utility to implement it on an interim basis at the commission’s meeting on Nov. 3.
“I don’t see any reason that we shouldn’t take steps now to begin that process rather than waiting Jan. 1, 2029,” she said during the meeting…