{"id":32876,"date":"2019-10-13T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=60826"},"modified":"2019-10-14T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:06:45","slug":"mountain-parks-electric-to-maintain-rates-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/mountain-parks-electric-to-maintain-rates-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Parks Electric to maintain rates in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Parks Electric customers will not see a rate increase on their bills in 2020, the electric cooperative\u2019s board decided on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rising costs of labor, benefits and system investments, the Mountain Parks Electric board approved a 2020 operating budget that does not require a rate increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping electricity affordable is one of Mountain Parks Electric\u2019s primary objectives,\u201d said General Manager Mark Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ways the cooperative has managed to keep costs down include investing in renewable energy sources, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/county-plans-solar-power-project-that-would-power-hundreds-of-local-homes\/\">solar projects being built near Walden and Fraser<\/a>, and reducing operating costs where possible.<\/p>\n<p>Electric sales in 2019 also increased, according to Mountain Parks Electric, which allowed the board to balance the budget without a rate increase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cooperative also shared that it delivered service with a 99.9% reliability rate last year, which amounts to only 128 minutes per consumer of outage time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Parks Electric customers will not see a rate increase on their bills in 2020, the electric cooperative\u2019s board decided on Friday. Despite the rising costs of labor, benefits and system investments, the Mountain Parks Electric board approved a 2020 operating budget that does not require a rate increase. \u201cKeeping electricity affordable is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 06:48:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32946,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions\/32946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}