Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-06-17 | Page 8 | Electric Rates Slashed Again

Electric Rates Slashed Again Carrying out a program of large scale rate reductions to Utah electric elec-tric service users, the Utah Power and Light Company has filed a series of new schedules with the state public service commission. George M. Gadsby, president and general manager, said the principal reduction will be in commercial lighting rates which will enable merchants to add greatly to their store lighting without additional cost. The new price will range downward from five cents per kilowatt kilo-watt hour to two and one-half cents per kilowatt hour after the minimum charge of ninety cents for eleven kilowatt kil-owatt hours. The schedule will be effective on meter readings after July 1 and is part of the $350,000 annual reductions reduc-tions ordered in the general rate case announced last December. Also effective July 1 the deferred payment charge will be reduced from 10 to 5 per cent. This means the gross bill will be the net bill plus five per cent instead of ten percent I as at present. Some power users, who obtained a reduction of fifteen per cent January Jan-uary 1, obtain an additional five per cent reduction after July 1. Reductions in rates which brought costs for residential and farm customers cus-tomers in Utah to approximately twenty per cent below the national average went into effect April 1 this year.