Debt, infrastructure and fish helping to drive the price Cheney pays for its power
Cheney Residents who use an average 1,000 kilowatt hours will see their monthly bill increase to $66.40. In spite of an rate increase, Cheney's rate remains the lowest in the similar size areas.
If you think there is something fishy about Cheney's upcoming 6 percent power rate increase, you'd be correct.
The City Council recently approved the increase, the first in 14 years, in order to replenish Light Department coffers that have been steadily dwindling due not only to infrastructure requirements but increases in wholesale power costs from the city's supplier, the Bonneville Power Administration. One of the factors behind BPA's increases stems from a 2008 settlement between BPA and four of five Northwest tribes that would leave Columbia Basin hydroelectric facilities intact while imp...
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