End date sought for SOBE rate hikes
In a filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel did not object to the significant emergency rate increases for downtown steam heat customers, but want the hikes to have an expiration date. If an end date isn’t set, the two entities urged the PUCO to require SOBE Thermal Systems LLC, the troubled utility company for most of downtown, to file an application for new permanent rate increases. In its joint filing, the city and the OCC wrote: “Absent an ending date for the emergency rates or a ...
