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Rate watch
Rate cases, commission orders, and energy regulatory news, pulled live from public utility commission and federal agency feeds. Your rates change because of proceedings like these, usually months before the bill does.
Every item below is fetched at request time from the named upstream feed and links to that source. Nothing here is written, rewritten, ranked, or summarized by us — we do not stand between you and the primary document.
Items are split into filings — actual commission and federal agency documents — and press coverage, which is reporting about proceedings rather than the proceedings themselves. The distinction matters: only one of them is citable.
If a feed is down, it is named under "sources unavailable" rather than quietly filled in with something else. An empty page means the sources were empty, not that we had nothing to say. The raw response is at /api/rate-watch.
The gap in this page, stated up front
We tested 162 candidate feeds across state commissions, federal agencies, and trade press to build this. 39 work. The rest fail, and the pattern of failure is worth knowing if you ever try to track your own rate cases:
- Most state commissions publish nothing machine-readable. Of the sixteen states where our clients concentrate, exactly one — Maryland — has a working commission feed. Georgia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Colorado, Arizona, California, Illinois, Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri publish no usable feed at any path we could find.
- Two federal agencies block automated access to their own publications. FERC and the FCC both refuse programmatic clients on their own domains. Their documents reach this page through the Federal Register instead.
- Several feeds fail in ways that look like success. Florida's commission returns a valid page on every URL you ask for, including ones that do not exist. Alabama serves a structurally perfect feed containing zero items. A monitoring system that checks status codes would report both as healthy.
So the honest position: this page gives you federal filings, a handful of state commissions, and press coverage everywhere else. Docket-level tracking for the states that matter most to our clients is not available from public feeds and would require scraping each commission's search interface. We would rather say that than imply coverage we do not have.
Why an operator should care
Three practical reasons to watch proceedings rather than react to bills:
- Rate design changes are where the money moves. A change to the demand ratchet percentage, the tail block of a rate schedule, or the sewer-to-water ratio can matter more to a portfolio than the headline percentage increase that gets reported.
- New rate schedules create new misclassifications. When a utility restructures its commercial classes, accounts get mapped across automatically and imperfectly. The months after a rate case are the richest hunting ground for schedule errors.
- Deduction and exemption programs appear and change quietly. Evaporation credits, irrigation deductions, and exemption thresholds are usually created or modified in a tariff filing, not announced to customers.