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The Bonneville Power Administration today announced several rate changes – none which will immediately affect customers of Tacoma Power and some that may affect customers of Puget Sound Energy.
The price the BPA charges its utilities customers for power will increase by an average of 6 percent in October, said a BPA release.
“This is the first power rate increase since 2002 and it’s driven by both rising costs and decreasing surplus revenues,” it said.
Additionally, customers “will also receive $163 million in returned overcharges due to a 2007 U.S. Ninth Circuit Court decision. Financial benefits for residential and small farm consumers of investor-owned utilities, which are based on BPA’s power rates as well as other factors, will be $173 million.”
At Tacoma Power, spokeswoman Chris Gleason said this afternoon, “At this point we don’t have any plans to raise rates. Obviously there are a lot of factors, but this is not a trigger for us to raise rates. Our goal is to get through 2010 before we raise rates again."
In 2011, she said, “there is a high likelihood that we will raise rates.”
At Puget Sound Energy, spokeswoman Dorothy Bracken said the utility was reviewing the BPA announcement and other data.
“We’ve just got the news. We haven’t yet reviewed all of the papers that will be coming, to know the exact amount. We will know tomorrow what the effect will be in October,” she said.
BPA markets more than a third of the electricity consumed in the Pacific Northwest. Its power is produced at 31 federal dams owned and operated by the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation and one nuclear plant. Power is sold to more than 140 Northwest utilities.
Claudia Burns, a 15-year veteran of Top Food & Drug, has been named as manager of the Tacoma Top Food at 3130 S. 23rd St.
Before joining the store's parent, Bellingham-based Haggen Inc., Burns spent 11 years in the catering and delicatessen field in Tacoma and her native Germany, according to a Haggen release today.
She previously served the company at Top Food stores in Lacey and Olympia. She lives in Olympia, and will supervise some 80 employees at the Tacoma branch.
