Ketchikan City Council plans to hike electricity and water rates in 2021
Posted by Eric Stone | Dec 21, 2020
Aerial view of Ketchikan (KRBD stock photo).
Electricity and water rates in Ketchikan will likely rise next year. That’s after the City Council approved a budget that takes into account higher utility rates to balance its 2021 spending plan.
There’s good news and bad. The good news is that nobody at the city faces losing their jobs. But as for the bad: utility rates are likely to go up.
Ketchikan mayor Bob Sivertsen says the rise is in anticipation of higher wholesale power rates set by the Southeast Alaska Power Agency.