"While the residential and small business rates are among the five most expensive in the country, the industrial rate is much lower, ranking right in the middle

"While the residential and small business rates are among the five most expensive in the country, the industrial rate is much lower, ranking right in the middle among the states." There's an obvious solution here. Residential rates went up 10% because the local utility has a simplistic demand pricing program that allows cheap industrial demand to drive up expensive residential rates.