Groups fight AEP

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The Office of the Ohio Counsel said Fridaythe agency, Kroger, the and Ohio Association will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to block the retroactiver portion of AEP’s rate increase. In the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio granted AEPsubsidiariesz , which serves Central Ohio, and rate increasea averaging about 7 percent this year and also in 2010 and 2011. The increasesd are retroactiveto Jan. 1. The retroactive chargr will cost Columbus Southern Power customersabout $30 said a release from the counsel office. Ohio Power customers would pay $33 million.
On Marcbh 30, the denied a consumers’ counsel request to prohibit the retroactive leading to the effort to get the Supreme Court toblock them. Ohio Consumers’ Counsel Janine Migden-Ostrander has contended that Ohio law prohibitszretroactive rate-making by the commission. “The PUCO made an unlawfulk decision when it imposed a full year of rate increases to be paid by AEP customerse innine months,” said Migden-Ostrander in the release.
“The retroactive increase is like charging a studenr an increase in tuition payments three months aftere the student has No one should standfor