{"id":568598,"date":"2016-12-16T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=568598"},"modified":"2016-12-19T03:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T09:35:51","slug":"swepco-seeking-base-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=568598","title":{"rendered":"SWEPCO Seeking Base Rate Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/electricity-distribution.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/electricity-distribution-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-345465\" \/><\/a>SHREVEPORT &#8211; AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company is asking the Texas Public Utility Commission to raise its rates by about $69 Million annually. The company says the 12.7% rate increase  is to cover $34.4 million annually for additional investment in environmental controls at four major power plants. The two in Texas are the Welsh Plant Units 1 and 3 at Pittsburg and the Pirkey Plant at Hallsville.  If approved, new rates could go into effect in mid-to-late 2017.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHREVEPORT &#8211; AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company is asking the Texas Public Utility Commission to raise its rates by about $69 Million annually. The company says the 12.7% rate increase is to cover $34.4 million annually for additional investment in environmental controls at four major power plants. The two in Texas are the Welsh Plant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=568598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SWEPCO Seeking Base Rate Hike<\/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-568598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 01:36:11","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\/568598","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=568598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568599,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568598\/revisions\/568599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}