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Opinion: Kentucky Power Company customers can’t get a break on rate increases
BY CARRIE RAY Kentucky Power Company customers can’t seem to get a break. With base rate increases about every two years and smaller hits in between, residential customers have seen their rates go up by almost 50% compared to 10 years ago. Small commercial customers’ rates have gone up 32-37%, and their demand rate, which
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Cutting LIHEAP is a deadly blow to Eastern Kentucky
BY CHRIS WOOLERY By any measure, the economy of Eastern Kentucky and the wider Appalachian region is struggling. The collapse of the coal industry, the opioid crisis, and the recurring natural disasters have left scars that are slow to heal. Families and individual households trying to make ends meet rely on an array of federal
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Will crypto-mining companies coming to Kentucky raise your electric bills?
BY JOSH BILLS A Chinese crypto-mining company is proposing to build a $250 million plant near the town of Louisa. At the same time, another crypto-mining firm is proposing a plant near Waverly, Kentucky. Kentucky Power and Kentucky Utilities propose to give them special rates on their electric bills – deals that the Kentucky Public
