By Diego Mendoza-Moyers, El Paso Matters El Paso Electric is in the final stages of securing a rate increase from the Public Utility Commission of Texas that could lift average household electric bills in El Paso by as much as $22 per month, but PUC staffers say the utility is asking to make too much profit off of customers.  How much profit El Paso Electric is allowed to earn is a key point of contention that the state’s public utility commissioners will have to decide before issuing a final decision on the utility’s rate increase request, likely in December. 

If its rate request is approved as is, El Paso Electric has said the average residential customers’ annual bills will rise to $1,423 from $1,157 currently – or $118 monthly on average compared with an average bill of $96 currently.

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