Atmos Energy wants to increase Dallas rates

Atmos Power is requesting to extend its charges in Dallas, which may price residential prospects about $6.10 extra a month.

Driving the information: The Dallas-based power firm filed a request this month with the town to extend charges 6.36% to drive up the enterprise’s income.

• If authorised, the speed would go into impact June 1.

Why it issues: Clients are already complaining about excessive payments attributable to rising pure gasoline costs and winter climate.

Flashback: Atmos despatched a discover to prospects within the fall, warning that their payments could possibly be dearer this winter.

Particulars: Atmos mentioned in a request to the Metropolis of Dallas it desires to extend its annual income by $20.6 million to cowl the $180 million the corporate spent between October 2021 and September 2022 to switch miles of pipe within the space.

• “Present charges do not enable us to recuperate our extra spending on security and reliability,” the corporate mentioned in its request.
• Metropolis workers members are reviewing the request and can current suggestions to Metropolis Council on Could 10.

Sure, however: The Texas Railroad Fee, which oversees pipeline corporations, discovered that Atmos didn’t adequately detect leaks in gasoline strains within the days and months earlier than a 2018 explosion that killed a 12-year-old woman in her Northwest Dallas house.

• After the deadly explosion, the corporate mentioned it will exchange the entire metropolis’s 456 miles of forged iron piping.

Zoom out: The corporate is requesting an identical fee enhance in Kansas, in accordance with a public discover.

• Atmos desires to extend its revenues there by $8.3 million to offset prices of updating its methods and hikes in wages and medical bills.