VOICE leaders are deeply concerned that the Corporation Commission Public Utilities Division, OG&E, and other interveners have an agreement for fuel charges related to the February 2021 freeze that sticks consumers with $1 billion in fuel charges and interest payments for the next 28 years while OG&E continues to increase its dividend to shareholders.

Few answers for ratepayers Tuesday when asked why consumers, instead of shareholders, should shoulder the burden for “astronomical” electricity costs

VOICE holds a proposed $92.5 million rate hike by OG&E to just $8.9 million, forcing the public utility to refund money to consumers due to an interim hike.

Our most important accomplishment has been building an organization that has crossed the lines that usually separate people — race, ethnicity, religious, political, economic, educational.