Across Arizona, families are facing impossible choices: paying for groceries or paying the light bill, covering prescriptions or keeping the AC running in 110-degree heat. These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are a daily reality for too many Arizonans.

Now, Arizona Public Service wants to make survival even harder. The utility is proposing a 14% rate increase that would add about $20 more per month to household electric bills, starting no earlier than July 8, 2026, if approved by regulators.

This isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous.