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“Customers will have an easier time paying smaller monthly bills, so we will expect to see fewer cases of customers walking away without paying a final bill because it is just too high.”
Dave Andrew
“In response to higher electric costs, many customers have asked us to switch to monthly billing. We think monthly billing will especially help those on fixed incomes.”
“There was also an outage from Stella Road west to the county line, those folks were out, too.”
“The first outage was at 8:20 a.m., and the last customer was back on by 3:30 p.m.. Most problems were taken care of in one to three hours.”
“It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.”
“All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.”
“On South Cloverdale Road, there were both poles and lines down, which took crews four hours to replace. Most of the customers hit were residential. There may have been a school without power, but that is less of a problem on a Sunday.”
“We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need another rate-raising factor out of our control.”
“We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus larger, occasional rate increases.”
“If we need to drain the water, we will do it at a point where demand for electricity is low.”
