Are electricity rates getting another hike in Utah?

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Rocky Mountain Power proposes a 4.5% rate hike to fund wildfire insurance.

The Utah Public Service Commission must approve the increase, facing public scrutiny.

Critics argue continued coal use drives rate hikes and climate change impacts in Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY — Another electricity rate hike is being proposed by Rocky Mountain Power to offset the cost of wildfires in Utah. But critics are wondering when the prices of electricity will stop increasing.

The utility company wants to raise Utah customers' monthly electric bills another 4.5% to pay for its new wildfire liability insurance fund.

Filed the day before Thanksgiving, the utility's latest rate hike request would add an average $3.70 per-month surcharge for the next 10 years or un