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Oct 9, 2026
Paige BrowningHOST
The ban will go into effect September 1st of next year.
Paige BrowningHOST
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission is still considering Puget Sound Energy's proposed rate hikes and still accepting online feedback from the public.
Paige BrowningHOST
PSE is the state's largest utility and says it needs state regulators to approve the $1.5 billion spike so it can keep up with demand.
Paige BrowningHOST
As the USS Lincoln and its sailors settled into San Diego yesterday, we are waiting to find out when the aircraft carrier will return to Bremerton, Washington.
Mary KippGUEST
We do not have unlimited resources.
Mary KippGUEST
So although we've all put much more into them, and I'm really grateful to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission because they've actually given us a wildfire, fire tracker-
Nat BullardHOST
Mm-hmm
Mary KippGUEST
... to enable us, uh, to pay for this.
Paige BrowningHOST
PSE is asking state regulators to approve electric rate increases totaling about 29 percent and natural gas increases of nearly 20 percent over three years.
Paige BrowningHOST
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission is hosting the hearing on Zoom at 6 tonight.
Paige BrowningHOST
A couple of quick news notes tonight.
Paige BrowningHOST
Starbucks is laying off 51 more workers.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
Is this so that you can get your 10% return to your investors or clean energy? Which way are we going here?" So many questions, so few answers, but there's one particular point here that's really interesting.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
More than 100 Puget Sound Energy rate pickers packed a four-hour public hearing in Lacey, down by Tacoma, Tuesday night to urge members of the Utilities and Transportation Commission to reject Puget Sound Energy's proposed rate hikes for electricity and natural gas.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
Puget Sound Energy, they're asking for 15 in electricity, 14 in natural gas.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
Rates would climb again in 2028 and 2029, adding hundreds of dollars a year to power bills.
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Sean ReynoldsHOST
All right.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
Invest, um, yeah, r- rate taxpayers lined up well before the meeting started Tuesday evening for a chance to urge commissioners not to allow PSE to raise rates so high.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
So you got a situation where Puget Sound Energy comes to the commission, the Energy Commission, and they, they say yes or they say no. It's like the Insurance Commission down in California, right? They've made it so hard to get raises in insurance, on insurance for the insurers in California, that most of them just haven't raised rates in years.
Sean ReynoldsHOST
And then they got to a point where all the wildfires and everything else, their exposure, they're like, "Yeah, all right.
Barb ChurchUNKNOWN
So keep the HOPE Team, and I support, uh, enhancing the funding.
Barb ChurchUNKNOWN
Last night, I went to Utilities and Transportation Commission to challenge Puget Sound Energy's rate hikes.
Barb ChurchUNKNOWN
Eight mayors in the neighboring cities of here support saying no to those proposed rate hikes because of the ne- negative impact of people in their cities and its economy.
Barb ChurchUNKNOWN
I would like Mayor Ibsen to join in in saying no to those rate hikes to Utilities and Transportation.
John RyanCORRESPONDENT
State law requires power supplies to be carbon neutral by 2030 to help fight climate change.
John RyanCORRESPONDENT
The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission is holding a public comment hearing on the request tonight in Lacey and an online hearing next week.
John RyanCORRESPONDENT
John Ryan, KUOW News.
Paige BrowningHOST
Sticking with politics, the U.S. Senate has passed the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act, co-sponsored and championed by Washington Democrat Maria Cantwell.
David KromanHOST
It would have required that gas companies and utility companies provide natural gas to any person or corporation, even if other energy sources were available.
David KromanHOST
And it was going to prohibit the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission from approving any rate plan requiring or incentivizing getting rid of natural gas.
Libby DenkmannHOST
David, you just mentioned three or four different topics.
Libby DenkmannHOST
Is this an issue?