Public hearings next week for National Grid proposed rate hike

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- Customers could soon be shelling out more for electricity if National Grid gets its way. The company is proposing raising rates by $8.93 a month for the average customer.
“How can you make millions and millions of dollars in profit but tell us you need to raise the rates for people who can ill afford it?” said William Yelder, a member of the grassroots organization PUSH Buffalo.
He joined more than half a dozen other frustrated Buffalo residents to urge peo