The crowd offering comments about a request by the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to raise electric rates was sparse at a public meeting on Wednesday.
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission hosted the public hearing in Albuquerque to gather input about how a rate increase could impact customers.
PNM has reached an unopposed agreement with advocacy groups, local governments and other entities that have intervened in the case. The groups reached that agreement in late November…