Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. EKPC's petition for confidential protection for Response No. 4, Response No. 5, and Response No. 11 is granted. 2. The designated information shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for ten years or until further Order of this Commission. 3. Use of the material in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. EKPC shall inform the Commission if the material in question becomes publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect the material granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the material has been granted confidential treatment has not expired, then EKPC shall have 30 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the material still falls within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If EKPC is unable to make such demonstration, the requested material shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection. 6. The Commission shall not make the requested material available for inspection for 30 days following an Order finding that the material no longer qualifies for confidential treatment in order to allow EKPC to seek a remedy afforded by law.

Final Order Entered: 1. The charges and credits applied by EKPG through the FAG for the period from November 1, 2016, through October 31, 2018, are approved. 2. EKPG's proposed base fuel cost of $0.02624 per kWh is approved 3. EKPC shall reduce its base energy rates by $0.00152 per kWh to reflect the reestablishment of base fuel costs. 4. The rates in the Appendix to this Order are approved effective with service rendered on and after February 1, 2020. The rates in the Appendix to this Order are designed to reflect the reduction of $0.00152 per kWh to base energy rates, which is the differential between the old base fuel cost of $0.02776 per kWh and the new base fuel cost of $0.02624 per kWh. 5. Beginning with the expense month for February 2020, EKPC shall use an FAC rate based upon a base fuel cost of $0.02624 per kWh. 6. Within 20 days of the date of this Order, EKPC shall file, using the Commission's electronic Tariff Filing System, its revised tariff sheets with the Commission setting out the rates approved herein and reflecting that they were approved pursuant to this Order. 7. This case is closed and removed from the Commission's docket.

EKPCs response to Staffs PH DR2 dated July 9, 2019.

Patrick C. Woods East Kentucky Power Cooperative

Data Request

EKPCs responses to PH DR dated 05-07-19.

Patrick Woods East Kentucky Power Cooperative

Data Request

20190506_PSC Notice of Filing.pdf

Proof of Public Hearing Notice

Patrick C. Woods East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.

Responses to PSC DR2 dated 03-11-19

Patrick C. Woods East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.

Data Request

EKPCs testimony and responses to Staffs Information Requests dated February 11, 2019.

Patrick C. Woods East Kentucky Power Cooperative

Written Statement waiving right to service of Commission Orders by US Mail.

Patrick C. Woods East Kentucky Power Cooperative

Order Entered: 1. East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. (EKPC), shall appear in Hearing Room 1 of the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky, on April 16, 2019, at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, to submit itself to examination on the application of its Fuel Adjustment Clause (FAC) from November 1, 2016, to October 31, 2018. 2. Not less than 7 days and no more than 21 days prior to the scheduled hearing, EKPC shall publish, in a newspaper of general circulation in each area in which it serves, notice of the purpose, time, place, and date of the scheduled hearing. In addition, the notice of hearing shall include the following statement: "This hearing will be streamed live and may be viewed on the PSC website, psc.ky.gov." 3. EKPC shall file with the Commission no later than April 15, 2019, proof of publication of its notice for the hearing. 4. The official record of the proceeding shall be by digital video recording only. 5. Neither opening statements nor summaries of pre-filed testimony will be permitted at the scheduled hearing. 6. The Commission adopts the procedural schedule set forth in Appendix A to this Order, which is incorporated by reference herein. 7. a. The information requested in Appendix B to this Order is due no later than 14 days from the date of entry of this Order. Responses to requests for information in paper medium shall be appropriately bound, tabbed, and indexed.