Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. Duke Kentucky's petition for confidential protection for Response 4, Response 22, Response 30, Response 31, and Response 32 is granted. 2. The designated information shall not be placed in the public record or made available 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. Duke Kentucky 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 Duke Kentucky 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 Duke Kentucky 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 Duke Kentucky to seek a remedy afforded by law.

Final Order Entered: 1. Duke Kentucky's proposed base fuel cost of $0.023241 per kWh is denied. 2. Duke Kentucky shall continue to use the base fuel cost of $0.023837 per kWh. 3. The charges and credits applied by Duke Kentucky through the FAC for the period from November 1, 2016, through October 31 , 2018, except for costs related to the Green Hat default, are approved. 4. Beginning with the expense month for February 2020, Duke Kentucky should credit an amount equal to $37,079.84 for three months until May 2020. 5. Duke Kentucky shall file with the Commission, within 20 days of the date of entry of this Order, the original and an electronic version of the information requested in the Appendix to this Order. 6. a. Responses to requests for information in paper medium shall be appropriately bound, tabbed, and indexed. Electronic documents shall be in portable document format (PDF), shall be searchable, and shall be appropriately bookmarked. Each response shall include the name of the witness responsible for responding to the questions related to the information provided.

Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. submits its Post-Hearing Response to Commissions Staff Post-Hearing Request for Information

Deborah Gates Rocco O. DAscenzo

Data Request

20190506_PSC Notice of Filing.pdf

Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. hereby submits revised pages Attachments STAFF-DR-01-026 and STAFF-DR-01-027 to its 1st Response to Commission Staffs First Request for Information

Deborah Gates Rocco O. DAscenzo

Publications of the Notice of Hearing set for April 16, 2019

Deborah Gates Rocco O. DAscenzo

Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. submits its 2nd Response to Commissions Staff Second Request for Information

Deborah Gates Rocco O. DAscenzo

Data Request

Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. submits its 1st Response to Commissions Staff First Request for Information

Deborah Gates Rocco O. DAscenzo

Direct Testimony of Theodore H. Czupik, Jr., Brett Phipps, John D. Swez and John A. Verderame on behalf of Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc.

Deborah Gates Rocco O. DAscenzo

Order Entered: 1. Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. (Duke Kentucky), 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, Duke Kentucky 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. Duke Kentucky 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.