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Schools Seek Break from KU Price Hike

A school advocate urged state regulators to find a way to lessen the pain on public schools as they consider whether to approve Kentucky Utilities Co.’s request to raise its electric rates.Engineer Darrel Pfingston of Henderson, an energy manager for the Kentucky School Boards Association, proposed that the Kentucky Public Service Commission tie schools’ electric rates to the rate of inflation, which he said is about half the rate that energy has been escalating in recent decades.

 

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