Hastings, Wilkin, Shaffer to attend PUCO, AEP meeting
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Hastings, Wilkin, Shaffer to participate Friday in PUCO hearing on AEP
Hillsboro Mayor Drew Hastings will testify at a hearing scheduled Friday by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to review a modified Electric Security Plan (ESP) submitted by American Electric Power
(AEP).
Highland County commissioners Shane Wilkin and Jeremy Shaffer also will attend the hearing.
The meeting has been scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday, March 23 at the Public Utility Commission of Ohio hearing room, 11B, 180 E. Broad St., Columbus.
In a March 16 letter from AEP senior counsel Matthew J. Satterwhite to the PUCO chairman, Todd A. Snitchler, the commission was informed that the meeting will address the "matter of application of Columbus Southern Ohio Power and Ohio Power Company for authority to establish a standard service offer pursuant to Section 4928.143 of the Ohio Revised Code of an electric security plan."
The AEP letter references Case Nos. 11-346-EL-SSO (Highland County consumers' case number), 11-348-EL-SSO, 11-349-EL-AAM, and 11-350-EL-AAM, and seeks "approval of certain accounting authority."
After numerous complaints from Highland County small business owners and other consumers over excessive increases in their recent AEP bills, last month PUCO ordered AEP to restore its rates to December 2011 levels.
In late February, the commission disapproved AEP-Ohio’s electric security plan (ESP) as it was outlined in a settlement agreement submitted by 21 of 31 parties to the case.
“I am asking citizens of Hillsboro and Highland County to send me copies of their AEP electric bills by Friday at 10 a.m. to my office at 130 N. High Street in Hillsboro to take with me to show the PUCO
commissioners,” Hastings said.
“I will be asking for a resolution of this matter that does not result in significant electric increases for
citizens. I will also be asking for a refund for the large increases that landed on consumers starting in January. This is only fair,” he said.
“Our citizens have experienced electric prices that, if they were gas prices, would probably be the equivalent of $8 per gallon,” Hastings said.
At Wednesday's county commissioners' meeting, it was announced that Wilkin and Shaffer also would attend the meeting.
Hillsboro Mayor Drew Hastings will testify at a hearing scheduled Friday by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to review a modified Electric Security Plan (ESP) submitted by American Electric Power (AEP).
Highland County commissioners Shane Wilkin and Jeremy Shaffer also will attend the hearing.
The meeting has been scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday, March 23 at the Public Utility Commission of Ohio hearing room, 11B, 180 E. Broad St., Columbus.
In a March 16 letter from AEP senior counsel Matthew J. Satterwhite to the PUCO chairman, Todd A. Snitchler, the commission was informed that the meeting will address the "matter of application of Columbus Southern Ohio Power and Ohio Power
Company for authority to establish a standard service offer pursuant to Section 4928.143 of the Ohio Revised Code of an electric security plan."
The AEP letter references Case Nos. 11-346-EL-SSO (Highland County consumers' case number), 11-348-EL-SSO, 11-349-EL-AAM, and 11-350-EL-AAM, and seeks "approval of certain accounting authority."
After numerous complaints from Highland County small business owners and other consumers over excessive increases in their recent AEP bills, last month PUCO ordered AEP to restore its rates to December 2011 levels.
In late February, the commission disapproved AEP-Ohio’s electric security plan (ESP) as it was outlined in a settlement agreement submitted by 21 of 31 parties to the case.
“I am asking citizens of Hillsboro and Highland County to send me copies of their AEP electric bills by Friday at 10 a.m. to my office at 130 N. High Street in Hillsboro to take with me to show the PUCO commissioners,” Hastings said.
“I will be asking for a resolution of this matter that does not result in significant electric increases for citizens. I will also be asking for a refund for the large increases that landed on consumers starting in January. This is only fair,” he said.
“Our citizens have experienced electric prices that, if they were gas prices, would probably be the equivalent of $8 per gallon,” Hastings said.
At Wednesday's county commissioners' meeting, it was announced that Wilkin and Shaffer also would attend the meeting.