The Arizona Corporation Commission has fielded some Valley residents’ concerns regarding a potential rate hike for the state’s largest utility.

Arizona Public Service Co. is expected to officially file a new rate case June 13 with the ACC where the utility’s customers could see an eventual rate hike.

APS wants to use another rate increase to recover costs officials say the utility has paid to improve its existing infrastructure for its 1.4 million Arizona customers.

And like other entities, APS wasn’t immune to inflationary price spikes that occurred during the past four years. Since June 2022, “macroeconomic volatility and other factors have driven up costs for a broad range of goods and services” related to providing reliable energy services to its customers, APS officials stated in t

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