NORTON — City resident Christina Sexton summed up many people's fears about how a proposed Old Dominion Power Co. rate increase will affect customers. The proposal to increase ODP's base rate by nearly 31 percent could cost her family an extra $1,000-plus per year and force them to make some very hard choices, Sexton told State Corporation Commission officials Wednesday during public hearings. Sexton's household of three adults and three kids has used as many as 8,000-plus kilowatt hours of electricity in a single month, she told SCC Chief Hearing Examiner Deborah Ellenberg. Using the pow...
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