Recently, a newspaper article noted that electricity rates across the state are going to rise as supply is failing to keep pace with demand.
After years of little or no demand growth, a federal push for electric vehicles and household appliances such as stoves to replace those using fossil fuels, has boosted the demand for electricity. In conjunction with the retiring of fossil fuel plants such as the one in Springdale Boro, Allegheny County and Homer City in Indiana County, the demand began to outstrip supply. An increase in electricity price was inevitable.
