The Wisconsin Citizens Utility Board thinks an $800 million rate increase request from We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service Corporation is too high. The utilities filed rate cases this month with the PSC for customers in eastern and northern Wisconsin. CUB executive director Tom Content tells WFDL news it appears that We Energies want to make money on new solar and natural gas plants and keep profiting on coal plants long after they’re shut down. Content says saddling hundreds of millions of dollars of additional costs on customers already paying among the highest prices in the Midwest for electricity is something the PSC needs to evaluate very carefully.
