By Katie Meyer of Spotlight PA

HARRISBURG — Steeper energy costs are coming this summer, and bills are expected to be even worse next year, thanks to a recent power auction that saw utilities pay record-high prices.

The rising summer prices in Pennsylvania are partly driven by unavoidable factors.

As the Public Utility Commission (PUC) wrote in a warning to consumers Friday, the state has seen “soaring power usage during multiple heat waves since mid-June and scorching conditions that pushed electricity demand on the regional power grid to its highest level in 14 years.”

That record-setting usage, the commission warned, “will soon be reflected in monthly electric bills.”

Nils Hagen-Frederiksen, a spokesperson for the PUC, said that coinciding with the heat waves, which began earlier t

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