Attorney General of Arizona calls for changes to the differences in use after the death of the heat

Phoenix (Azfamilie) – With the temperatures that three -digit digits hit, the Attorney General of Arizona, Kris Mayes, takes over the heat for APS and other power supply companies. Mayes calls on the state how it deals with services during the hottest part of the year.

The Attorney General says Arizona needs more regulations to protect the public. It puts the state's top supply regulatory authority under pressure to ensure that energy companies prioritize people before profit.

“It is the responsibility of the pension companies that people do not die due to the measures they have taken,” Mayes said from the connector during the recording of politics this week.

Mayes spoke of the death of Kate Korman, the 82-year-old who died last year after APS had switched off her power in one day of almost 100 degrees. At that time, she owed $ 500 to the company.

“This is a company, APS that has earned 500 million US dollars in the past two years with a profit, Dennis, and that's why it is not okay,” said the Attorney General, Dennis Welch, Arizona's family -political editor Dennis.

APS said they tried to contact Korman 10 times about their unpaid care. The company is currently excluded from the separation of power from June 1 to October 15th. Since Korman died in May, Mayes wants this directive to change.

“Therefore, I ask the Commission to change its separation guidelines from a date guideline to a heat or temperature-based guideline both on the cold side and on the heat side,” said Mayes.

Mayes has now sent a letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission, in which an investigation of the handling of interruptions from performance companies was requested. The Attorney General is the former chairman of the State Commission, which regulates the supply companies. At least Mayes said that companies and APS have to cover the costs of the unpaid invoices of customers in life and death heat situations.

“Again, APS has made profits of 500 million US dollars so that they can afford to eat some of it, and I would expect every ethical company. And every ethical corporate commission would require them to eat some of them,” said the Attorney General.

Mayes also said that the corporate commission and the energy supply companies should consider long -term payment plans to prevent deaths in connection with heat.

APS sent the von Arizona family an explanation on Friday afternoon, which was partly: “The separation of electricity is one last way out … We regularly work with customers to find solutions to pay off their bills.”

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