RICHMOND — The State Corporation Commission (SCC) will hold an additional hearing on November 18, 2009, in Norton to receive testimony from public witnesses on a request by Kentucky Utilities to increase its electric base rates. The additional hearing will begin at 10 a.m. and will be held in Norton City Council Chambers at 618 Virginia Avenue.

The hearings previously scheduled for November 18 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at John I. Burton High School are changed to the Norton City Council Chambers at the same times. Any person wishing to testify at the hearings should arrive early and notify the SCC bailiff.

The evidentiary phase of the case will continue in Richmond on January 6, 2010, in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building at 1300 East Main Street.

The company seeks an increase in base rates in the amount of $12.2 million over present total revenue. The proposed rate increase would raise the monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity from $70.05 to $91.64, an increase of $21.59 or 30.81 percent.

Written comments on the base rate request must be submitted by December 30, 2009. All correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and refer to case number PUE-2009-00029.

Interested persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so at the SCC’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link and then the SUBMIT COMMENTS button for case number PUE-2009-00029.

Kentucky Utilities, doing business in Virginia as Old Dominion Power Company, serves 30,000 retail customers in Wise, Lee, Russell, Scott, and Dickenson counties.

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Case Number PUE-2009-00029