We Energies proposes rate hike for 2025, 2026 [Video]

We Energies has filed proposals with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin for rate hikes in 2025 and 2026. It says the funds would help reduce customer power outages, build infrastructure and meet new environmental standards.”The vast, vast majority of this filing is to pay for new power plants, solar, wind and natural gas plants that have already been approved by the Public Service Commission,” said Brendan Conway, We Energies spokesperson.This comes after a January storm knocked out power to more than 200,000 We Energies customers. Some of this money would help keep power on during storms by burying power lines and increasing the trimming of trees.”We’ve seen an incredible increase in severe weather power outages and that’s 100,000 customers or more have lost power,” Conway said. “So since 2020, we’ve had eight times that has happened. In the previous 43 years, it happened six times.”If the proposals are passed, …