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Rachel Walden: “Our rates are historical. The utility has to pay for the…”

Featuring: Rachel Walden, Republican | Arizona Corporation Commission

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AZ Votes Debate: Republican candidates for Corporation Commission | Apr. 4, 2024

Published | Video Starts at 27:05

Miss Walden, would you have approved this latest AP's rate increase? So I haven't reviewed all the documentation. I mean, there was 500 pages of documentation of things that AP's had to build. So Our rates are historical. The utility has to pay for the energy generation first, and then they get reimbursed in the rates. So we are back paying the utility companies and they present a documentation of natural gas expansion, transmission lines, transformer replacements, all that stuff that runs, goes into infrastructure and keeping the lights on, keeping things reliable. (27:05–27:13)

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Asserts that utility companies pay for energy generation upfront and get reimbursed through rates.

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