WPS To Return More Than $2.1 Million To Customers

Wisconsin Public Service will be returning nearly $2.2 million to customers in 2013 for extra fuel costs it collected last year.

But consumers shouldn't expect to get a check in the mail.

The Public Service Commission says it will use the $2,178,000 fuel refund to offset a price increase that WPS has requested for 2013.

In April WPS applied for a 9.2 percent increase in electric rates and a 3.7 percent increase in natural gas distribution rates, although the utility says those needs might be less by the time rates are approved later this year.