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Updike said, pointing out that REC has not raised the rates it controls since June, 1982. He acknowledged, however, that customers did receive a 7.8 percent rate increase in October, a “pass through” charge caused by a wholesale power hike from VEPCO.
Systemwide, REC’s kilowatt hour sales went up 8.7 percent in December, 1983, compared to the same month the previous year and then jumped 28.1 percent in January, 1984, versus January, 1983.
Even households without electric heat have seen electrical bills climb, according to Updike. “We don’t have
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