By Jill Monier
FOX 10 News
An SRP board today approved giving a million dollars in services and contributions to the Super Bowl Host Committee. It has some wondering if it’s a good idea for the nonprofit utility to use customer funds to help fund the Super Bowl.
Their ads are heard on the radio, seen on TV, in the newspapers and online. Each year SRP and APS utility companies spend millions of your dollars on advertising. But why?
There’s no competition between utility companies SRP and APS. They are utility monopolies.
Where you live dictates which company controls your utilities — but that’s not stopping them from spending millions of ratepayer money on advertising, even as one of the utilities just raised its rates.
It’s something at least one lawmaker wants to take a closer look at.
Over the years, you may have noticed your utility bill going up. Both APS and SRP have had rate hikes in the last 2 years. SRP just raised their rates in November by 3.9 percent.
But where it that money going? FOX 10 found millions are being used on commercials and billboards.
