Lewis County PUD Proposes Rate Increase (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)

(CHEHALIS, WA) -- Electricity rates could be going up for Lewis County PUD customers.  PUD is proposing an increase that would see the monthly bill go up by about $6 for customers using 1,100 kilowatt hours a month.  The proposed rate increase is a result of Bonneville Power Administration’s increase in wholesale rates to utilities in October 2013.  If Lewis county PUD approves the rate increase, it would begin March 1, 2014.  PUD is holding public hearings on January 28 in Chehalis and on February 4 in Morton on the proposed rate increase.