Across Arizona, families are facing impossible choices: paying for groceries or paying the light bill, covering prescriptions or keeping the AC running in 110-degree heat.

These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are a daily reality for too many Arizonans.

Now, Arizona Public Service wants to make survival even harder. The utility is proposing a 14% rate increase that would add about $20 more per month to household electric bills, starting no earlier than July 8, 2026, if approved by regulators.

This isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous.

APS received rate increases in 2023 and 2024. Now, they’re back again, asking the Arizona Corporation Commission for even more.

The utility is requesting a $580 million increase in annual revenue, all while its parent company,........

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