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Mountaineer Gas customers will now pay
16.5 percent more for service.
The state Public Service Commission formally
signed off on a $23 million rate
increase this week. The rate hike is less than half
of what the company wanted.
Mountaineer Gas serves about 205,000
customers in 47 counties.
The average residential customer will pay about
$98 a month, up from the current
$84 a month.
Mountaineer Gas is owned by Allegheny
Power.
Allegheny's rates have been frozen since 1998,
when it and several other natural gas utilities
agreed to freeze rates in exchange for less
PSC intervention. Allegheny's agreement
expired yesterday.
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