Kentucky Public Service Commission


View Case Filings for: 2015-00281


Case Number:2015-00281
Service Type:Electric
Filing Date:8/31/2015
Category:Regular
Utilities:

East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.


Case Nature:

AN EXAMINATION BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SURCHARGE MECHANISM OF EAST KENTUCKY POWER COOPERATIVE, INC. FOR THE SIX-MONTH BILLING PERIODS ENDING JUNE 30, 2014 AND DECEMBER 31, 2014, FOR THE TWO-YEAR BILLING PERIOD ENDING JUNE 30, 2015, AND THE PASS THROUGH MECHANISM FOR ITS SIXTEEN MEMBER DISTRIBUTION COOPERATIVES









Case Filings
FilingDocuments
4/8/2016 2:25:23 PM

Final Order Entered: 1. The amounts billed by EKPC through its environmental surcharge for the period July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2015, are approved. 2. Beginning in the first full-billing month following the date of this Order, EKPC shall increase its jurisdictional environmental revenue requirement by $195,578 for one month, and $195,577 for one month. 3. EKPC's request to include the over-recovery for June 2015 through February 2016 in the adjustment in this review is denied. 4. EKPC shall use a rate of return of 6.045 percent in all monthly environmental surcharge filings subsequent to the date of this Order. 5. EKPC's Member Cooperatives shall include the applicable monthly retail pass-through adjustments, shown in the Appendix to this Order, in the determination of each Member Cooperative's respective pass-through mechanism, as discussed herein, following the date of this order. 6. The Member Cooperatives shall use the proposed calculation methodology as discussed herein to calculate their monthly over/under amounts beginning with the next review proceeding to be opened following the closure of this matter.


4/5/2016

EKPC Revised Response to Request for Information Including CD with Excel Formatted Answers


3/31/2016 10:49:56 AM

Order Entered: EKPC's motion to withdraw its March 15, 2016 motion to submit this matter on the existing record and to file a revised response to Commission Staff's First Request for Information, Item 1, is granted.


3/24/2016

EKPC Motion to Withdraw March 15, 2016 Motion to Submit


3/15/2016

EKPC Revised Methodology, Et AL and a Motion to Submit Case on the Record


3/14/2016 12:08:42 PM

Memorandum dated 3/14for Informal Conference of 3/2; Comments, if any, due within 5 days of receipt of this letter


3/10/2016

Farmers RECC Supplemental Response


2/18/2016 12:10:14 PM

Order Entered: 1. EKPC's motion to file supplemental testimony is granted, and the supplemental testimony is accepted for filing as of the date of this Order. 2. EKPC's motion to schedule an informal conference is granted. 3. EKPC's motion to suspend the procedural schedule is granted. 4. The date by which EKPC is to either request a hearing or submit the case for decision based on the record is suspended until further Order of the Commission. 5. An informal conference shall be held on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at 1 :30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, KY 40602.


2/12/2016

EKPC Affidavits of Ted Hampton and Michael Miller


1/28/2016

EKPC Motion for Leave to File Supplemental Testimony, Schedule IC and Suspension of Schedule


12/28/2015 2:35:07 PM

Order Entered: 1 . EKPC's motion for an extension of time to file a request for hearing or submit the case for decision based on the record is granted. 2. EKPC and its member cooperatives shall request a hearing or submit the case for decision based on the record no later than January 29, 2016.


12/22/2015

EKPC Motion for Extension of Time to File Request for Hearing or Submit Case


11/16/2015

Owen Electric Coop. Corp. Revised Responses


11/12/2015

EKPC Response to Second Request for Information


11/12/2015

Farmers RECC Response to Second Request for Information


11/12/2015

Owen Electric Coop. Inc. Response to Second Data Request


11/4/2015

Cumberland Valley Electric Inc. Response to Second Request for Information


10/28/2015 2:19:06 PM

Commission Staff's Second Request for Information to East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc., Cumberland Valley Electric, Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation and Owen Electric Cooperative, Inc.


10/2/2015

Taylor County RECC Supplemental Response


10/2/2015

Nolin RECC Response to Information Request


10/2/2015

Licking Valley RECC Response to Information Request


10/1/2015

Cumberland Valley Electric Inc. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

South Kentucky R.E.C.C. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

Grayson RECC Response to Request for Information


9/30/2015

Jackson Energy Coop. Corp. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

Blue Grass Energy Coop. Corp. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

Farmers RECC Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

Inter-County Energy Coop. Corp. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

Shelby Energy Cooperative, Inc. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

Owen Electric Coop. Inc. Response to Information Request


9/30/2015

EKPC Response to Information Request Inc. Responses from EKPC Member Systems w/Additional Information on Disk


9/30/2015

Clark Energy Coop. Inc. Response to Information Request w/CD


9/29/2015

Big Sandy RECC Response to Information Request


9/29/2015

Fleming-Mason Energy Coop. Inc. Response to Information Request


9/29/2015

Taylor County RECC Response to Information Request


9/29/2015

Salt River Electric Cooperative Corp. Response to Information Request


9/11/2015 1:56:34 PM

Order Entered: EKPC's motion is granted. 2. EKPC is granted an extension of time to file its testimony and responses to the August 31, 2015 information requests up to and including September 30, 2015. 3. The procedural schedule set forth in the Appendix to this Order shall be followed. 4. All provisions of the Commission's August 31, 2015 Order not in conflict with this Order shall remain in full force and effect.


9/3/2015

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Motion for Extension of Time


8/31/2015 1:59:29 PM

Order Entered: 1. EKPC and each of its Member Cooperatives listed in footnote 2 shall be parties to this case. 2. The procedural schedule set forth in Appendix A to this Order shall be followed in this proceeding. 3. East Kentucky shall , by the date set forth in Appendix A, file its prepared direct testimony in support of the reasonableness of the application of its environmental surcharge mechanism and the application of the pass-through mechanism during the periods under review. 4. Any party filing testimony shall file an original and seven copies. 5. Any proposal by EKPC and its Member Cooperatives to change the existing methodology shall comply with the Commission's August 25, 2015 Order in Case No. 2014-00051. 6. a. EKPC and each of its 16 Member Cooperatives shall file responses to the questions asked of the particular cooperative in Appendix B to this Order. The information requested herein is due by the date set forth in Appendix A to this Order. Responses to requests for information shall be appropriately bound, tabbed and indexed and shall include the name of the witness responsible for responding to the questions related to the information provided, with copies to all parties of record and seven copies to the Commission. b. Each response shall be answered under oath or, for representatives of a public or private corporation or a partnership or association or a governmental agency, be accompanied by a signed certification of the preparer