PUCO rejects request for end date for SOBE rate increases
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio rejected a request from the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel to require an expiration date for large emergency rate increases for downtown steam heat customers. In a 4-0 vote Wednesday affirming its June 24 decision, the PUCO wrote the OCC and Youngstown request “did not demonstrate in their assignments of error that the finding and order was in any respect unjust or unwarranted.” The city and the OCC asked if an end date isn’t set for the emergency rate hikes that the PUCO require SOBE Thermal Energy ...
