WREA challenges Tri-State rates at PUC

MEEKER I White River Electric Association, Inc. (WREA), along with La Plata Electric Association of Durango, Colo., and Empire Electric Association of Cortez, Colo., filed a formal complaint on March 4 at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) against their wholesale power supplier Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Inc., challenging Tri-State’s A37 wholesale power rate that went into effect this January.
The three cooperatives joined with the Rural Electric Consumer Alliance, which consists of many of…