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

(CHEHALIS, WA) -- Lewis County PUD customers will see their monthly electric bill go up beginning March 1.  The PUD commissioners approved a 6.8 percent rate increase at their meeting on Tuesday.  That amounts to about $6 a month more for the average residential customer using 1,100 kilowatt hours per month.  The rate increase is across the board for both residential and commercial customers.  Corrie Moses with PUD says the increase comes as a result of Bonneville Power Administration raising its power rates to utilities in October.