Kentucky Public Service Commission

Final Order Entered: 1. The amounts billed by Big Rivers through its environmental surcharge for the period August 1, 2015, through January 31 , 2016, are approved. 2. The amounts billed by Jackson Purchase and Kenergy through their respective environmental surcharge pass-through mechanisms for the period August 1, 2015, through January 31 , 2016, for all customers with dedicated delivery points are approved. 3. The amounts billed by the three Member Cooperatives through their respective environmental surcharge pass-through mechanisms for the period September 1, 2015, through February 28, 2016, for all other non-dedicated delivery point customers are approved. 4. The rates of return determined by Big Rivers for each month of the review period are approved.

Order Entered: 1. Big River's motion for confidential protection for attachments to its response to Staff's First Request, Item 7.b. , is granted. 2. Pursuant to KRS 61.878, the information for which Big Rivers requests confidential protection shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection indefinitely from the date of this Order, or until further Order of the Commission. 3. Use of the materials in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Big Rivers shall inform the Commission if the materials in question become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect materials granted confidential treatment by this Order, Big Rivers shall have 20 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the materials still fall within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If Big Rivers is unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for inspection. 6. The Commission shall not make the materials available for inspection for 20 days following an Order finding that the materials no longer qualify for confidential treatment in order to allow Big Rivers to seek a remedy afforded by law.

Big Rivers Electric Corp. Request to Submit the Matter for Adjudication

Big Rivers Electric Corp. Response to Second Request for Information w/CD

Commission Staff's Second Request for Information to Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Big Rivers Response to Request for Information, Inc. CD with Xcel Spread Sheet Formatting and Petition for Confidential Treatment

Big Rivers Response to Request for Information, Inc. CD with Xcel Spread Sheet Formatting and Petition for Confidential Treatment

Order Entered: 1 . Big Rivers and each of its three Member Cooperatives listed in footnote 2 shall be made parties to this case. 2. The procedural schedule set forth in Appendix A to this Order shall be followed in this proceeding. 3. Any person who submits a motion to intervene after May16, 2016, and upon a showing of good cause is granted full intervention, shall accept and abide by the existing procedural schedule. 4. Big Rivers shall, by the date set forth in Appendix A to this Order, file its prepared direct testimony in support of the reasonableness of the application of its environmental surcharge mechanism and the three Member Cooperatives, or Big Rivers on their behalf shall file by that date their prepared direct testimony in support of the reasonableness of the application of the pass-through mechanism during the periods under review. 5. Any party filing testimony shall file an original and seven copies. 6. a. The information requested herein is due on or before the date specified 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.