
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, April 14, 1990                   TAG: 9004140112
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

TERRY ASKS SCC TO REJECT REQUEST BY VA. POWER

Attorney General Mary Sue Terry asked the State Corporation Commission on Friday to dismiss Virginia Power's request for a $147.5 million rate increase.

Terry, in a motion filed with the state regulatory agency for utilities, said Virginia Power had not met the legal requirements for an expedited increase to take effect May 1.

If the SCC does not dismiss the utility's request outright, Terry said, it should suspend the increase for 150 days from the filing date.

Virginia Power, the state's largest electric utility with 1.7 million residential customers, filed the rate increase request March 30. If granted, the increase would raise the bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month $6.18.

- Associated Press

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