Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-05
ELECTRIC RATES
REDUCTION FILED
Power Company Gives Pro-
posed 1891 Schedule to
Utilities Commission.

Substantial reductions in the sched-
ules for domestic heating and cooking
and for commercial general uses were
the features Of the rate reduction pro-
posal submitted by the Potomac Electric
Power Co. to the Public Utilities Com
mission today to go into effect in 1891
If approved by the commission.
The commission viii take the rates
under consideration and q decision is
expected at its meeting Monday.
In schedule K, on which the house,
holder gets his current for any house.
hold use other than lighting, the re-
duction in the rate is from Al cents to
AZ per kllowatt hour for the first 10
hours and from as to al cents for ali
over the, first 10. This involves re-
duction Of $36,190 and 1t affects 6,239
consumers.
Lighting Cut Largest.
In the commercial lighting and gen.
eral use schedule, known as schedule d,
the proposed reduction, involving 15,105
consumers, is $236, 607. The primary
rate is proposed to be reduced from
4!6 to A cents per kilowat hour fol
the first $50 hours. For the next 1,50C
hours che proposed drop Is from Al
to SO cents. For the next $500 from
SIS to 80 cents. For the next 5000
from rs to "a cents and AL over that
2 cents per hour.
The largest reduction, as previously
announced, would be made in schedule
A, which Is the domestic lighting sched-
ule, which Is proposed to be reduced
from al to AZ cents per kilowat hour
granting to 120.964 consumers de-
crease Of $33l,s50.
In schedule G the proposed reduction,
Involving 1883 consumers and 926, 469,
Is from 4.6 to ~ cents for the first 400
hours, from SO to 81 cents for the next
$50 hours, from 3 to 40 cents for the
next 1000 The rate for the next 1900
there is q new rate for all IN excess Of
Z, 500 Of cents per hour. This schedule
Is used for apartment lighting and other
electrical uses for apartment buildings.
Other Proposals.
In schedule b, the proposed reduction
Of the primary rate Is from AZ TO AZ
cents and there Is no proposed change
in the secondary rate Of cents pei
kilowatt hour. This involves 1921 con-
suners and q reduction Of 1910. This
Va
electricity other than lighting.
In schedule H there is q proposed re-
duction from Al to Al In the primary
rate and from rs to 81 cents in the
secondary. This schedule, used for COM
mercial heating and cooking only, In
wolves 800 consumers and Is q proposed
reduction of $5,579.
The reduction in the prices for street
lights and traff1c signals on COM
plicated schedule involves $21, 1888.
The schedule submitted today by the
company meets, in part, suggestions
made by the Public Utilities Commits
sion yesterday. Some of the features
of the schedule, according to Chairman
Mason M. Patrick of the commission,
are new and have not been studied.
VIII Act Monday.
The commission expects to deal with
two motions involving the new electric
rates at its meeting next Monday. One
Of them, by Peoples Counsel Richmond
B. Keech, seeks greater reduction and
the other, by William NICK. Clayton OF
the Federation of Citizens Associations,
a change Of the consent decree In
Equity Court under which the rates are
annually adjusted.
This decree, entered in 1924, allows
the company to earn 7la per cent on
its agreed valuation and to keep one
half of the excess over. such earnings
returning the other half the following
year to the consumers In the way OF
| rate reductions.