Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: (1) Ordering paragraph 9 of the July 24, 2012 Order is amended to state as follows: All other provisions of the Commission's October 6, 2011 Order shall remain in full force and effect. (2) All other provisions of the July 24, 2012 Order that are not if conflict with the terms of this Order shall remain in full force and effect.

Order Entered: 1. The Commission’s 10/6/12 Order is amended. the last sentence beginning on page 10 is revised to read: The Commission’s decision herein on the four PURPA standards relating to Efficiency Investments, Consideration of Smart Grid Investments, and Smart Grid Information, as well as the non-PURPA waste energy standard, apply to all jurisdictional electric utilities that were made parties to this proceeding. 2. The Kentucky IRP Standard, set forth in the Commission’s 10/6/11 Order, is revised to read: Each electric utility shall integrate energy efficiency resources into its plans and shall adopt policies establishing cost-effective energy efficiency resources with equal priority as other resource options. In each integrated resource plan, certificate case, and rate case, the subject electric utility shall fully explain its consideration of cost-effective energy efficiency resources as defined in the Commission’s IRP regulation (807 KAR 5:058). 3. The revised Kentucky IRP Standard shall be adopted. 4. The five major LDCs shall develop policies that ensure cost-effective energy efficiency is given the same priority as other cost-effective resources. 5. The Commission’s October 6, 2011 Order is amended, ordering paragraph 3 is modified to read: The Smart Grid Investment Standard shall not be adopted at this time, and a decision on whether or not to adopt that standard will be deferred until the completion of a new Smart Grid/Smart Meter administrative case.

Duke Energy of Kentucky, Inc. Counsel Notice of Change of Practice Affiliation and Change of Address

EKPC Counsel Notice of Change of Practice Affiliation and Change of Address

Joint Brief

Joint Intervenors Joint Motion

Order Entered: (1) The requests for rehearing filed by EKPC and the Movants are granted. (2) Within 60 days of the date of this Order, any party may submit a brief addressing any of the issues upon which rehearing has been granted. (3) Within 60 days of the date of this Order, each non-utility party may file and each utility party shall file, individually or jointly, a brief on the legal issues of whether adoption of the Kentucky IRP Standard and the EISA 2007 Smart Grid constitute the adoption of new policy.

Movants Joint Motion for Clarification and Amendment of Order

East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.'s Application for Rehearing of Commission's Order of October 6, 2011

Final Order: 1. PURPA standards set forth in ElSA 2007 relating to IRP, electric & gas rate design, & gas energy efficiency are not to be adopted. 2. 5 major LDCs shall develop policies & procedures that ensure cost-effective energy efficiency is considered priority resource. 3. The Smart Grid Investment standard set forth in ElSA 2007 is hereby adopted. 4.The Smart Grid Information standard set forth in EISA 2007 shall be considered in a separate matter. 5. A record of efforts of the Smart Grid Collaborative, as detailed in the Commission Staffs informal conference (“IC”) memo of 11/02/2009, Staffs IC memo of 2/19/2010, & EON’S Joint Response on behalf of parties filed 4/29/2010, shall be incorporated into the record of the separate upcoming proceeding. 6. The Waste Energy standard is deferred & shall be considered at the time an application to apply the standard to a customer has been filed. 7. The Kentucky IRP Standard set forth herein shall be adopted by each jurisdictional electric generating utility. (8) Within 30 days, each jurisdictional electric generating utility shall submit a statement indicating adoption of Kentucky IRP Standard. (9) Within 90 days, the 5 major LDCs shall submit pertinent policies & procedures to ensure cost-effective energy efficiency is considered priority resource. (10) Within 30 days, each jurisdictional electric generating utility shall submit a statement indicating adoption of Smart Grid Investment standard as set forth in ElSA 2007.

Community Action Council and Attorney General's Joint Comments to letter dated 5/28/10

LG&E and KU's Joint Response report addressing issued in Staff's Smart Meter and Smart Grid Guidance Document dated 2/19/2010

Memorandum dated 2/07/11 for Informal Conference of 1/13/11; Comments, if any, due within five days of receipt

PSC staff notice of informal Conference

Joint Motion for Informal Conference