Here's a Jolt

By CHRIS KRAUL

Nov. 6, 1996 12 AM PT

TIMES STAFF WRITER

The price of electricity varies wildly in the West, and Southern Californians have been on the short end of the kilowatt. One expected entry in the power market here, Oregon-based PacifiCorp, illustrates the benefits of deregulation--and the challenge facing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Southern California Edison.

As the accompanying chart illustrates, DWP’s industrial power rates are 42% higher than Edison’s and 155% more than those of PacifiCorp.

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Average 1995 Retail Electricity Rates

(cents per kilowatt-hour)

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DWP Edison PacifiCorp Residential: 9.68 12.60 6.10 Commercial: 8.79 10.77 5.42 Industrial: 8.79 6.20 3.44

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Source: Fitch Investors Service

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Chris Kraul

Chris Kraul covered South America for the Los Angeles Times from his base in Bogota, Colombia. He joined the paper in 1987 and was business editor of the San Diego edition until it closed in 1992. He then began covering the border and Mexican economies until his assignment to The Times’ Mexico City bureau in 2001. He reopened the paper’s Bogota bureau in 2006. He has also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida and also has been a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal.

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