CITIZEN POWER ALLIANCE

Public hearings, including one in Rochester, have been scheduled by the state Public Service Commission related to proposed rate increases by Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. and New York State Electric & Gas Corp.

The Rochester hearing is on Tuesday from 1 to 3 p.m. in council chambers at City Hall, the commission said. Also on that day, a hearing is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Geneva Community Center in Ontario County.

Other hearings are scheduled for next Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Broome County Public Library in Binghamton, and next Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Lancaster Village Municipal Building in Erie County.

The public can comment at the hearings before an administrative law judge assigned by the commission to these cases, PSC officials said. Verbatim transcripts of the hearings will be made for inclusion in the record of the proceeding, officials said.

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