utility rates

Columbus City Council will meet virtually on Monday, Jan. 26, following a record-setting snowfall over the weekend. Zoning and utility rate hikes are on the agenda.

AEP says the proposed decrease would drop bills by a little more than $1 a month for average customers. AEP is using money it already owes customers from two years ago when consumers overpaid deferred income taxes by $82 million.

Columbus City Council voted unanimously to pass regulations that would cap fees landlords pass on to tenants who are not directly billed for utility services.

Submetering is when third party middlemen purchase electric or another utility at wholesale prices and then resell it.

The Columbus Division of Water said in a statement the overcharge was caused by a billing error that the city is working to correct.

The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld a pricing structure for fees that competitors must pay American Electric Power as the utility transitions to a…