Republican Congresswoman Carol Miller contends her proposed legislation will save West Virginia’s utilities and its ratepayers money.
The District 1 representative toured a West Virginia American Water treatment plant in Charleston and held a closed-door roundtable meeting with electric and water utilities.
Miller is pushing
the Resilience Act of 2025
, claiming it will allow utilities to deduct repair costs from the corporate alternative minimum tax and avoid passing some of that burden onto customers.
“It gives them the ability to not pass on terrible expenses to the customer because it will help rate how they have to handle things,” Miller said. “Of course, we need to have more sponsors as we’re moving forward, but it’s definitely a bipartisan bill.”
Backers of the legislation contend it will help keep customer costs low but still help with system reliability.
Critics are concerned that the potential may exist to push profits over grid modernization despite the bill’s title.
