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"It is never a good time to impose such large increases of utility expenses. "We believe the scope of the requested increases are unreasonable to residential and commercial customers, and taxpayers, particularly as negative economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to resonate in our rural community. Taxpayers do not deserve and cannot afford to take such as hit. "Further, speaking specifically on behalf of county government, such increases would result in an additional expense of about $10,000 annually to continue basic operations at the Pike County Administration Building, which is only one of several necessary county facilities that serve the needs of our residents. "In Pike County, the negative impacts would be felt by 4,800 residential and commercial electric customers and 1,200 residential and commercial gas customers. Pike County families and small businesses simply cannot bear the financial burdens of these sharp and sudden increases such as the requested 17.3 percent (electric) and 19.7 percent (gas) rates. "As stated in our November request to you for this hearing, we firmly object to the rate increases as they are currently proposed.
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On behalf of my fellow Commissioners, Ron Schmalzle and Steve Guccini, I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today about the requested increases for both gas and electricity rates by Pike County Light & Power Company. I’m Matt Osterberg, Chairman of the Pike County Commissioners. Pike County Chairman Matt Osterberg made testimony to PUC opposing the proposed increase. The average electric customer's rate would increase by 17.3 percent and a natural gas customer's rate would increase by 19.7 percent. If its proposal is approved, the company's annual operating revenues for electric would increase by nearly $2 million, or 24.7 percent, and by $262,000, or 16 percent, for natural gas. The company provides service to around 4,800 electric customers and about 1,200 natural gas customers in Pike County. “The majority of those customer were restored within 24 hours, many sooner.PIKE COUNTY, PA - On Monday, February 8, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission conducted hearings on Pike County Light & Power's request to raise its rates for electric and gas. “The cause of most of these outages were off-right-of-way trees falling into one of our main power lines running from Bushkill Falls to Birchwood Lake,” said Todd Meyers of Met-Ed. 15 and 16 knocked out thousands of customers in Pike County, including 3,700 in Delaware Township, 1,325 in Dingman Township, and 4,800 in Lehman Township. Crews had to check lines and isolate circuits to find the cause.Ī much smaller outage affecting eight Met-Ed customers in Dingmans Ferry happened at the same time.Ī windstorm that hit the area on Nov. The utility was at first unable to provide a restoration time because the cause of the outage was not obvious, such as downed trees on lines. Thank you for your patience while we worked to complete this difficult restoration.” (Monday), except for a localized area along Route 6 & 209, affecting one commercial building. Pike County Light & Power has turned the lights back on after an outage that affected Westfall, Milford Township, Milford Borough and Dingman Township, starting just after midnight early Monday morning.Ī PCL&P Facebook (/pikecountylightandpower) post stated: “All customers should be restored as of 4:20 p.m.