{"id":115005,"date":"2026-01-08T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:18:09","slug":"president-ceo-of-el-paso-electric-discusses-why-the-rate-increase-is-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115005\/","title":{"rendered":"President, CEO of El Paso Electric discusses why the rate increase is necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The City of El Paso and El Paso Electric have been at odds for months over the utility company\u2019s rate increase. President and CEO of EPE, Kelly Tomblin, speaks with KTSM 9 News Anchor Andy Morgan live on why the rate increase is necessary and when the final decision will be made by the Public Utility Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of El Paso and El Paso Electric have been at odds for months over the utility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1109,138,32675,140,139,50611,38404,24068,16438],"class_list":{"0":"post-115005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-city-of-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-electric","11":"tag-el-paso-headlines","12":"tag-el-paso-news","13":"tag-kelly-tomblin","14":"tag-president-and-ceo","15":"tag-rate-increase","16":"tag-utility-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}