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Show UP&L Rates Going Up After Recent Decision The Utah Public Service Commission completed the revenue phase of hearings on a Utah Power & Light Company rate increase application late Thursday and granted the company an interim rate increase of $16,072,000 annually. annu-ally. The interim order is an across-the-board increase of 10.7 percent effective February Febru-ary 1. In the company's application applica-tion it asked for an annual increase in revenue of $28,463-000 $28,463-000 from Utah customers which represents an increase of about 19 percent for all classes of service. The commission is expected to announce a final decision on the company's application February 20. The commission granted the interim increase under a provision of Utah law that provides the commission may, by temporary order, allow any amount that has been fully justified up to 70 percent of the total requested increase to become effective pending the final decision. The interim increase granted grant-ed UP&L Thursday amounts to 56.5 percent of the initial request. |