Ouch! Surcharge, Cold Snap Boost Electricity Bills
Billings Gazette, The › September 02, 2009
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Beartooth Electric's long-term power supply contracts expire in 2011, he said, and the co-op, which serves about 4,000 rural customers, will be forced to buy power on the open market at much higher prices. Because of increasing demand nationwide and a shortage of power generation facilities, it could become difficult to purchase power at any price, the co-ops reasoned.
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Ouch! Surcharge, Cold Snap Boost Electricity Bills
A whopping 50 percent increase in power rates made a hard landing this month on Montana customers of Beartooth Electric Cooperative Inc.
"It was staggering," said George Nelson, a teacher in Roberts who rents a home there.With the rate increase and a long cold snap, his bill jumped from $130 in Novem...See the full content of this document
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