As filed, a typical residential bill would rise about 13 dollars a month in 2027 and 8 to 9 dollars more in 2028, a combined 16.3 percent, but how much of that is really tied to data centers versus other grid needs is one of the contested questions in the case.
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Pending rate cases in Wisconsin
Ranked by what each would add to a typical monthly bill if approved as asked. Commissions usually approve less; here is how much less, measured. Cases without a published residential figure sit at the end. See what changed recently across every case we track.
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- Oct 15 Appalachian Power: 2026 biennial base rate review (comment deadline)
- Oct 19 Appalachian Power: 2026 biennial base rate review (hearing)
- Oct 26 Baltimore Gas and Electric: BGE 2027-2029 electric rate case (hearing)
- Nov 4 Entergy Arkansas: Entergy Arkansas 2027 formula rate plan filing (hearing)
- Nov 4 Puget Sound Energy: 2026 general rate case, electric (hearing)
- Nov 4 Puget Sound Energy: 2026 general rate case, natural gas (hearing)
- Nov 10 Portland General Electric: General rate case for 2027 rates (hearing)
- Nov 19 Entergy Arkansas: White Bluff coal-to-natural-gas conversion plan (hearing)
As filed, a typical WPS residential bill would rise about 11.19 dollars a month in 2027 and 5.43 dollars more in 2028; nothing has been decided yet.
Nothing changes on home bills unless and until this tariff is approved, but its purpose is to keep future data center grid costs off residential rates.
Transmission upgrades like this are typically billed to every electric customer in the state through transmission charges, not just to the data center that made the new line necessary, which is why the cost allocation question matters for ordinary bills even outside the counties involved.
If regulators approve it, Oracle would cover part of We Energies' nuclear power costs instead of spreading them to all customers, which the company says will lower everyone's fuel charges rather than raise them.
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Meta says the contract means other Alliant customers will not pay for the energy used by its Beaver Dam data center, though consumer advocates say the secrecy around the deal makes that hard for the public to independently verify.
This tariff does not change home electric rates by itself, but it is meant to make large new data centers pay the full cost of the power plants and lines built to serve them instead of spreading those costs across everyone's bill.
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