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wtowner@newsandsentinel.com BELPRE Belpre residents participating in the city electric aggregation program will see an increase in the cost as a scheduled price reset goes into effect at the start of June. Belpre City Council held its regular meeting Monday evening. Due to COVID-19 cases, the Belpre City Building has been closed since November, with all business conducted by mail, phone and electronically or by appointment. Monday’s meeting was held by Zoom, with most council members meeting in-person in the Belpre Council Chamber and the public attending virtually. Luke Sulfridge, with the Southeast Ohio Public Energy Council, said the electric aggregation agreement approved by council in October 2020 will see its price reset as scheduled on June 1. There will be a slight increase in the cost due to market pressures, from 4.867 cents per kilowatt hour to 5.64 cents. ....
Reply (Shutterstock) TOLEDO, OH The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Ohio state experienced 5.09 hours without power in 2019 0.39 more hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA. ....
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