The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission welcomes your participating in its decision-making process. Your voice is important!

If you have received a notice in your utility bill or been informed about a possible rate change, you can share your public comment with the commissioners.

Open Meetings
The vast majority of decisions regarding your utility services are made during the commissions regularly-scheduled open meetings. These meetings process thousands of filings a year. For information on the next open meeting and most recent filings by utility companies, visit our open meeting page.

Formal Cases
If the proceeding you are interested in has been "suspended" for formal review, the public comment process is different. In a formal case, the commissioners sit as judges and are not allowed to communicate with anyone about the case outside the hearing room. You can write the commission about the case but it does not become part of the record until formally submitted by a recognized party in the case. In most electric, natural gas and telephone cases, Public Counsel is a recognized party with the responsibility of representing the consumer.

• You can learn more about formal cases with our rate case primer.
• You can review the major active cases on our hearings page.
• Commission policy and its regulation of companies are established through rulemakings.

1) Use the Online comment form. Please include a return (email and postal) address and a brief description of the subject on which you are commenting; or
2) Write the UTC at P.O. Box 47250, Olympia, WA 98504.