{"id":233735,"date":"2013-01-09T17:54:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233735"},"modified":"2013-01-10T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:52:27","slug":"swepco-plans-rate-hike-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233735","title":{"rendered":"SWEPCO Plans Rate Hike Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=233736\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-233736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/thumb_power_lines-150x115.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_power_lines\" width=\"150\" height=\"115\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-233736\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 Public hearings on a rate hike request by AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company, or SWEPCO, are scheduled to begin in February. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report cities across SWEPCO\u2019s service area, including Longview, plan to continue fighting to have the 34% base rate increase denied. When combined with fuel charges and other factors, the average residential bill is expected to jump by about 16%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Public hearings on a rate hike request by AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company, or SWEPCO, are scheduled to begin in February. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report cities across SWEPCO\u2019s service area, including Longview, plan to continue fighting to have the 34% base rate increase denied. When combined with fuel charges and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=233735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SWEPCO Plans Rate Hike Hearings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:45:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233978,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233735\/revisions\/233978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}