"YOU WIN AGAIN" bee gees
Recently a group of Bowling Green, Ohio residents attended a city council meeting with questions concerning the increase in their electric bills.
Bowling Green Utilities has decided to raise electric rates 5% in 2014...... 5% in 2015, 5% 2016 and 5% 2017.
They questioned if this was due to Bowling Green signing on to purchase 50% of the power the city needed from Prairie State Energy Campus?
They were informed that although Prairie State costs are higher than promised the main cause of these increases has to do with new capacity charges for transmission of power. AND the completion of several hydro electric power sources developed by AMP-OHIO along the Ohio River. Now when first proposed one of these hydro plant Cannelton was developed to produce 84MW of power with a construction cost of $455,000,000. Has something gone wrong? Hydro power should be the cheapest power after you build the plant the energy used to run the plant (water) is free. Maybe someone from Painesville should "gather some data" on what the cost over-runs have occurred at these plants. Or is Bowling Green council just making up stories?
Either way with "take or pay" AMP-OHIO comes out a winner AGAIN.
posted by terminator1 @ 11:06 AM
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13 Comments:
Bowling Green will actuallty raise rates 5% a year for the next 10 years. BG got screwed over in the MEIGS county fiaco for 3 million plus, and the assertion rates are going upto due to HYDRO ( DAM ) power is absurd as BG signed up for less than 5% of it's power for Hydro.
This is all PRAIRIE STATE, BG contracted a massive 35MW of power vs less than 10 for Painesville and Galion.
AMP - the gift that keeps on giving.
Does anyone there have a clue why the assertion rates went up on the Hydro power? Yes Bowling Green bought almost 4 times as much as Painesville, Galion. So in November of last year can BG resident be on the hook for almost $800,000 in levilization charges?
I have a few questions about the parking ban, in question.
1. If your street has already been plowed, are you still not allow to park on it, when it has snowed over 2 inches earlier?
2. I had to occasion to come home and I could not get into my driveway, because of the heavy snow that had occurred earlier. I had to park on the street until, I cleared my driveway. (It took about an hour.) Should I be fined, in that situation?
3. Sometimes a car has a problem and cannot be moved immediately. Are they also to be subjected to a fine?
12:42 I think the best way to get these answered is to call the non-emergency number at the police station.
1.If the snow ban is in effect it's in effect. park at your own risk. The city may want to "mop up" the plowing.
2. If your working cleaning your drive and the officer sees you working on it , I guess it's up to him. Second if you see the plows coming move your car to a clean driveway while they pass.
3. Again digression of the officer . If the car poses a dander to traffic he will probably have it towed. Again ask the experts.
Bowling Green residents make Painesville resident look like Lottery winners.
$701,175.32 in levelization costs for November. Well they paid back $204,421.82 in December.
They must have bought into the Fremont plant because there are two bills one for 6X16 power and one for 7X24 working on the math but it ain't cheap.
Why are you purchasing power from Morgan Stanley?
Look I get no satisfaction seeing someone in worse shape than us, but if your city council is telling rates are going up due to a Hydro plant there full of S#@T.
On another note Bowling Green is the home of a large state college. Maybe someone in Columbus will get curious about the rates?
Councilman Flock on Fox 8 explaining the increase in the snow ban ticket. When asked about the $100 ticket, councilman Flock mentioned it got everyone's attention didn't it.
Well I see your city council in Bowling Green has fed you the $73.66 MW figure. Like that was some kind of deal? Now ask them what Bowling Green presently owes in levelization fees, and does this money have to be repaid. Why isn't in shown in the true cost of power from PSEC?
In another state Batavia, Illinois is planning to raise electric rates 16% this spring do to PSEC. PLUS an added $4.00 per month residential service charge. Also viewed is a 1/2% increase in city sales tax. The wheels are coming off folks.
I had someone come to my door asking questions of what I knew abot Prairie State. I told them to read the blog.
10:15: You had someone come to your door?! Do you know who it was? Unless it was someone with a petition to force an investigation, that sounds scary.
9:53 I believe Ohio Citizen Action was canvassing Painesville resident's to see if and how many were aware of the costs of the Prairie State electric deal?
Maybe Ohio Citizen Action could hold a meeting, if they have not done it already, if they are willing to do so to help the citizens understand just how badly they were duped, robbed and cheated.
2:54 They did at Flock's Town Hall Meeting in January.
This is far from over.
Good, because I'm still waiting for the investigations, and I hope they don't forget about our dear, dear Ms. McMahon.
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