After months of widespread speculation, the Public Service Company of Oklahoma confirmed in a January 2 news release that your electricity rates will likely soon be going up. And now we know by how much and when.
The average residential customer will experience a 15% increase to their monthly bill—about $25—by July 2026, should the utility's latest filing be approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
What's driving that increased cost? New large-load customers have been coming on to the grid, including data centers and crypto mines. On the upside, PSO says it's "proposing new special terms and conditions for new large customers to ensure they pay full costs to connect to the grid."
Markwayne Mullin Defends Minnesota ICE Killing In National News Interview
“Listen, if you don’t want to put yourself in harm’s way, don’t put yourself in a position like that,” Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin said of yesterday’s killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mullin, who sits on the Senate’s Armed Services Committee, said in the same interview with ABC that the U.S. is not committing troops to Greenland and that we were right to commit troops to Venezuela over the weekend. Mullin spent a lot of political capital early last year pushing President Trump’s freakishly unqualified cabinet nominations through the Senate, and is no stranger to cringingly debasing himself in public. But watching him blame a victim, coerce a foreign country into a land sale and defend the military extraction of a foreign head of state all in a single interview is a new low, even for him. Have a look for yourself: