PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ELECTIC RATES
Public And Private Electric Rates AN EDITORIAL Can the PSC Explain This Rate Difference? ARECENT editorial in The Progressive pointed out the low electric bills in Wisconsin communities served by...
...Let us compare their rates with rates of Appleton and Neenah, cities served privately by the same company: Residential Commercial Commercial (100 kwh) Lighting Power Appleton $3.98 $29.75 $710.50** 148.49*»* •New London 3.00 18.63 125.00" 1O6.00*** Neenah 3.98 29.75 170.50** 148.49»«» 2.85 14.88 90.00 •Municipal Plant...
...Why...
...two municipally owned plants —New London and Shawano—buy their wholesale energy Irom the private company...
...ARECENT editorial in The Progressive pointed out the low electric bills in Wisconsin communities served by municipally owned plants as contrasted with the rates charged by private power companies...
...Here we have the same electricity, produced at the same source and with the same machinery, and sent over the same wires—but sold at widely varying rates...
...Lighting and power...
...In the Wisconsin territory served by the Wisconsin - Michigan Power Co...
...Notice that the rates of Shawano, municipally served, are drastically lower than those of Appleton and Neenah...
...Heating and cooking...
...For the same amount of electricity, Shawano citizens pay SI.13 less monthly for residential service, $14.87 less for commercial light, 580.50 less for commercial lighting: and power, and $58.49 less for commercial power...
...Can the public service commission tell the housewives and business men of Appleton and Neenah why...
...Appleton is a city of more than 25,000 and Neenah has a population of nearly 10,000...
...The residential and commercial light users of Appleton and Neenah have to pay the high price of private service, while the citizens of New London and Shawano, much smaller communities, enjoy the benefits of cheap electricity through public ownership...
...Another outstanding example of the wide difference in public and private rates has just been brought to our attention...
...It would seem logical that these two cities should have lower rates than New London and Shawano, each with a population of about 5,000...
...The Investment per customer should be less in a larger city...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
