If you are a Tucson Electric Power customer, instead of the red and blue, you will soon start seeing black and blue. TEP is pushing for an eye-popping windfall by demanding an extra $194 million in Base Rate Revenue — a 16.5% increase, although it nets to 14% after taking into account other changes.

Worse yet, the monopoly is also seeking to ram the ratepayers with ARAM, an annual rate adjustment mechanism, to ensure it gets future increases on an annual autopilot, which will dispense with obstacles that get in the way of monopolies reaching into our pockets faster.