As community-owned, not-for-profit utilities, public power is uniquely concerned about reliability and affordability: we are the customers we serve.
While the average public power utility rate remains low relative to the national average, several factors are driving up costs for all utilities.
Public power utilities are working to ensure affordability for their customers, including by making sure that new large customers – not existing customers – pay their own way.
- Support increased funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
- Support changes in tax regulations that would protect customers from stranded costs by allowing public power utilities to lock large customers into 15-year contracts.
- Support bond modernization to help reduce costs and increase flexibility in financing the investments that make our communities livable and commerce possible.