{"id":2834,"date":"2025-12-09T04:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/?post_type=article&#038;p=2834"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:42:31","slug":"mia-lewis-testifies-at-the-public-utilities-commission-of-ohio","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/zh\/articles\/\u7c73\u5a05\u00b7\u5218\u6613\u65af\u5728\u4fc4\u4ea5\u4fc4\u5dde\u516c\u5171\u4e8b\u4e1a\u59d4\u5458\u4f1a\u4f5c\u8bc1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7c73\u5a05\u00b7\u5218\u6613\u65af\u5728\u4fc4\u4ea5\u4fc4\u5dde\u516c\u5171\u4e8b\u4e1a\u59d4\u5458\u4f1a\u4f5c\u8bc1"},"template":"","class_list":["post-2834","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","article_type":153,"authors":"","related_issues":[423],"related_work":false,"location":38},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Mia Lewis, Associate Director of Common Cause Ohio, testified at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to make sure the commissioners know Ohioans are <em>still <\/em>tracking the fallout of the Larry Householder House Bill 6 scandal:\r\n\r\n\"Do you remember the (still unfolding) House Bill 6 scandal? Because of HB6, Ohio electricity consumers <u data-stringify-type=\"underline\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiomfg.informz.net\/ohiomfg\/data\/images\/HB6%20OVEC%20Subsidies%20Again%20See%20High%20Costs%20-%207.22.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/ohiomfg.informz.net\/ohiomfg\/data\/images\/HB6%20OVEC%20Subsidies%20Again%20See%20High%20Costs%20-%207.22.24.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">spent more than $500 million to prop up aging coal plants<\/a><\/u>, including one in Indiana.\r\n\r\nAmerican Electric Power (AEP) managed to fly under the radar in the HB6 corruption scandal, but in January this year the SEC announced that AEP <u data-stringify-type=\"underline\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/admin\/2025\/33-11356.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/files\/litigation\/admin\/2025\/33-11356.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">agreed to pay a $19 million fine<\/a><\/u> because of their $1.2 million dark money payments in the corruption scheme and because of lies to investors. Nevertheless, in August,\u00a0<u data-stringify-type=\"underline\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/business\/2025\/08\/08\/aep-quarter-profits-soar-as-ohio-customers-face-higher-electric-bills\/85508652007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/business\/2025\/08\/08\/aep-quarter-profits-soar-as-ohio-customers-face-higher-electric-bills\/85508652007\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">AEP reported record profits.<\/a><\/u> So, they had plenty of money to pay a huge fine and still reward investors. Now they want to\u00a0<u data-stringify-type=\"underline\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/puco.ohio.gov\/news\/public-hearings-scheduled-for-aep-rate-distribution-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/puco.ohio.gov\/news\/public-hearings-scheduled-for-aep-rate-distribution-case\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">raise rates<\/a><\/u>. Why? That $19 million should not be on us! And they\u2019re clearly doing just fine.\"\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_53083\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"768\"]<img class=\"wp-image-53083 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OH_MiaPUCO_120925-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/> Mia Lewis testifies at the PUCO on December 9, 2025[\/caption]"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_related_articles","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_related_articles":{"heading":"Updates","button_text":"See all Related Articles","manually_curate":false,"articles":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mia Lewis Testifies at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio - 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