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a 10-year construction program of approximately $1.8 billion between 1978 and 1987.
McCardell maintained that without adequate rates curtailment of the present construction designed to meet future needs is inevitable. Such a curtailment. he said, would jeopardize PE’s ability to provide adquate and reliable service in thre future.
PE's rate request represents an increase of approximately 16 per cent in total normal revenues on an annual basis. However, McCardell noted that the percentage increase is smaller when compared to bills now being received by customers. For a typical residential customer using S80 kilowatthours per month, the total bill, including fuel and the temporary energy surcharge resulting from the coal miners' strike, would increase by about five per cent. For an electric heating customer using 2,000 kilowatthours per month, the bill—on the same basis—would increase by about 6‘/j per cent. The temporary energy surcharge will end in October.
Potomac Edison’s last rate increase here, which went into effect last July, was based on the company's operations in Virginia in 1976, A request for an interim increase of $2.1 million, designed to restore earnings to previously authorized levels based on 1977 statistics, was filed July 19 but was denied by the SCC. The current filing is
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