{"id":78149,"date":"2025-12-06T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78149\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:00:08","slug":"abc-7-xtra-sunday-increasing-utility-rates-on-the-horizon-for-the-borderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/78149\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC-7 Xtra Sunday &#8211; Increasing utility rates on the horizon for the Borderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Major utility companies serving the Borderland are considering raising their rates.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Electric, El Paso Water and Texas Gas Service have all announced the intention to increase the cost of their services to local consumers across the board.<\/p>\n<p>None of it is a done deal just yet. Each must go through a different regulatory process or before a different agency. Further action and final approvals for any increase are expected early next year.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0why do the utilities say the increase is necessary, and what would it mean for you?<\/p>\n<p>Join host Andrew J. Polk as he speaks with representatives local utilities and breaks down what the impacts could be, and what happens next. Tune in Sunday at 10:35 p.m., right after ABC-7 at 10 Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Major utility companies serving the Borderland are considering raising their rates. El Paso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-78149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78149","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=78149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}