The average Dominion Virginia Power customer is now paying $1.84 more per month to help pay for construction of a coal-fired generation plant.
Dominion spokesman Jim Norvelle says the rate increase took effect Jan. 1. The company did not announce the rate increase in January, but confirmed it yesterday.
A state law passed in 2007 authorizes power companies to recoup from customers some of the costs of new construction projects to meet growing demand for electricity. Previously, Norvelle said, utilities could not start recovering costs until a new power station began operating.
The new plant in Wise County in southwest Virginia is scheduled to come online in 2012.
-- The Associated Press
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