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Missouri law allowing more frequent water, sewer rate hikes 'bad for ratepayers': Consumers group


Missouri law allowing more frequent water, sewer rate hikes bad for ratepayers : Consumers group
John Haughey, The Center Square
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Proponents say a bill adopted by Missouri lawmakers and waiting Gov. Mike Parson’s signature will “save ratepayers money.” Opponents disagree, saying it s bad for ratepayers and jobs.
Under Senate Bill 44, the Missouri Water and Infrastructure Act, sponsored by Sen. Bill White, R-Joplin, utilities serving more than 8,000 water/sewer customers can request a slight increase every six months through a new water and sewer infrastructure rate (WSIRA) surcharge to maintain equipment and recover growing costs.
Current Missouri law requires an 11-month process for water and sewer utilities to submit proposed non-emergency rate hikes, a cycle that can take up to three years of evaluation and hearings before the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) approves a rate adjustment. ....

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ENERGY TRANSITIONS: Can a 1990s strategy help states quit coal?


Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Coal power plant in Michigan. Photo credit: Consumers Energy/Flickr
Michigan utility company Consumers Energy plans to shutter the last two units of its coal-burning D.E. Karn generating station in 2023. The power plant, pictured here in 2010, is located on the shore of Saginaw Bay in Hampton Township.
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Michigan utility Consumers Energy will take another step toward meeting its carbon-reduction goals in the spring of 2023 when it pulls the plug on the last two units at the coal-burning D.E. Karn generating station on the shore of Saginaw Bay.
But shutting down the 544-megawatt plant doesn t eliminate almost $700 million in unrecovered investments in Karn costs that will fall to the utility s 1.8 million customers even after the plant is no longer generating electricity. ....

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