(File Photo Provided with Release Courtesy of Peoples Natural Gas)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release courtesy of Peoples Natural Gas, they filed a request on Friday with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (“PUC”) for a base rate increase to support its Long-Term Infrastructure Improvement Plan (“LTIIP”), among other operations and safety initiatives. The LTIIP involves the retirement and replacement of aging pipelines while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. The ongoing LTIIP from Peoples Natural Gas is the largest single infrastructure initiative in its history.  Peoples’ base rate request will also provide for the recovery of their ongoing business costs. The request requires an investigation and an approval by the PUC, which may approve all, some or none of Peoples’ request. The rate review process can take up to nine months, which means that customers can expect any approved increases to take effect towards the end of December of 2026 at the earliest.