Francesca Hong: “We have to make sure the Public Service Commission has…”

“Yet We Energies is still trying to bypass this ruling by filing a separate rate case to jack up residential utility rates by over 9%. How will you prevent utilities from using data centers as a pretext to squeeze working families? Well, We have to make sure the Public Service Commission has statutes in place that actually give them enforcement mechanisms to reject rate hikes. We also have to make sure that there are transparency measures and accountability reports where these utility companies, We Energies, has to actually show where the rate hikes money is …” (35:50–36:02)

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