{"id":97473,"date":"2018-01-13T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=97473"},"modified":"2018-01-13T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:29:08","slug":"ppec-announces-small-2018-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/01\/13\/ppec-announces-small-2018-rate-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"PPEC announces small 2018 rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative (PPEC) residential members will see a slight increase of around $3 a month beginning in March 2018.\u00a0The electric co-op hasn\u2019t had an increase in over four years, but recently underwent a cost of service study that indicated the small increase was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PPEC trustees and employees work hard to deliver electric power that is reliable, safe, and cost-competitive with our neighboring utilities,\u201d said PPEC President and CEO George Carter. \u201cBe assured that we are working to keep your rates competitive, while still working to replace aging facilities, increase efficiency and improve our service reliability. This slight rate adjustment will assist in those efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-82352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PPEC-logo-12-2-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" \/>Over the last several years, PPEC has invested in rebuilding its electric plant by rebuilding substations, replacing old wires, and increasing maintenance and tree cutting. This is all in an effort to minimize customer outage time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, an electric company has just one main measurement &#8212; is the power on, do I have good service reliability?\u201d Carter added. \u201cIf your power isn\u2019t on, then little else matters!\u00a0We don\u2019t take this rate adjustment lightly and have done everything possible to minimize its impact on you, our member-owners, but our main objective is to keep the lights on and, in order to do that, we must invest in our infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commercial and industrial rates will also see an adjustment. The monthly bill will vary depending on the usage and demand charge.<\/p>\n<p>Members wanting more info on the rate adjustment can find all the information posted at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppec.coop\/\">www.PPEC.coop<\/a> or call 800.686.2357. Members can also work at conserving energy to shave off the extra $3 they will incur beginning in March.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of rates and changes, visit the PPEC website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppec.coop\/\">www.PPEC.coop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information PAULDING &#8212; Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative (PPEC) residential members will see a slight increase of around $3 a month beginning in March 2018.\u00a0The electric co-op hasn\u2019t had an increase in over four years, but recently underwent a cost of service study that indicated the small increase was necessary. \u201cThe PPEC trustees and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 08:25:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}