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Southwestern Electric Power Company, a utility serving more than 191,000 Texas customers, is set to increase monthly bills for a typical residential customer by 7.7% in a “black box” settlement agreement during its latest base rate case, according to an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute. That increase excludes a surcharge that will allow...

Oklahoma Gas & Electric, an investor-owned utility company, is lobbying Congress to make “substantial revisions” to the transmission reform sections of major energy legislation that Congress may consider after the election. OG&E’s position is laid out in a lobbying document, obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute, that the utility is using with Congressional offices....

Southwest Gas (SWG) is proposing a $101 million rate increase for its Arizona ratepayers, seeking nearly a 10.5% increase for residential customers. This rate case comes just over one year after the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) approved a 7.5% increase for SWG’s rates. SWG’s application includes a request for return on equity (ROE), the profit...

Salt River Project (SRP) customers may pay up to $704 per megawatt-hour for a Colorado coal plant to operate under emergency orders from the Trump administration in the first half of 2026. This is almost eight times the cost of solar plus storage resources, according to the utility’s estimates. Craig Generating Station in Moffat County,...