{"id":33671,"date":"2023-07-14T16:33:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=33671"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T20:33:45","slug":"lakeland-electric-looks-for-a-larger-base-rate-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/07\/14\/lakeland-electric-looks-for-a-larger-base-rate-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Electric looks for a larger base-rate increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Electric is looking for city officials to ratchet up&nbsp;its base rate for electricity&nbsp;this October, in part because of residents working to reduce their usage.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download-4.jpg?resize=290%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33672\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland commissioners are anticipated to vote Monday on whether to allow the municipal-owned utility to increase its scheduled base rate hike from 2.25% to 3.5% as of Oct. 1. If approved, it means the customer charge on bills will increase from $12 to $13.50 a month, in addition to a higher price per kilowatt-hour used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland Electric is looking for city officials to ratchet up&nbsp;its base rate for electricity&nbsp;this October, in part because of residents working to reduce their usage. Lakeland commissioners are anticipated to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5446],"class_list":["post-33671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-electric-looks-for-a-larger-base-rate-increase"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}