{"id":803625,"date":"2026-05-17T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803625\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:57:16","slug":"aps-to-hold-public-hearing-about-rate-hike-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803625\/","title":{"rendered":"APS to hold public hearing about rate hike in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 APS customers have a chance to speak out Monday about a proposal that could increase their utility bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The utility company filed an application last year to raise rates by about 14%. The increase would add an average of about $20 to monthly bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A spokesperson for APS said the increase is needed to cover money the company spent on operation and maintenance costs in previous years, including improvements to the electrical grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The company is set to hear public comment at the Arizona Corporation Commission at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/vzoemneWcru1r8LSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/vzoemneWcru1r8LSA\">1300 W. Washington St.<\/a> from 10 a.m. through 1 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 APS customers have a chance to speak out Monday about a proposal that could increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":803626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,40202,327161,327159,327160,5643,1587,7182,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-803625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-aps","10":"tag-aps-bills-in-arizona","11":"tag-aps-rate-hike","12":"tag-aps-rate-hike-in-arizona","13":"tag-arizona","14":"tag-az","15":"tag-azfamily","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116591922250483798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}