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Impacted public power utilities are looking at high bills coming <br />due for fuel and power. They have no choice but to pay. <br /> Unless relief comes, these high costs will need to be shouldered— <br />eventually—by customers and baked into electric rates. <br /> This event underscores the importance of electric utilities <br />embracing a diverse, robust resource mix. <br /> This situation also underscores the benefits of utilities owning and <br />operating their own generation resources. <br />o We need access to comparable incentives for developing <br />renewables, we are effectively not given that option. <br /> <br />What can be done? <br /> APPA and APGA asked President Biden to take action by capping <br />the price of natural gas. <br /> APPA and APGA asked FERC and DOE to investigate the cause of <br />high natural gas prices during Uri. <br /> We are working with our members to determine longer-term <br />advocacy priorities, including—but not limited to—legislative <br />action. <br />360 <br />