Tag Archives: Kansas Corporation Commission
Hostile Crowd Greets Westar at Rate Hearing
Westar has asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to allow it to increase its rates primarily to offset increased expenses for employee pensions, to expand tree trimming and to offset the effects of a cold summer. Continue reading
Officials Argue For, Against Westar Rate Hike
Westar’s requested rate bump is 5.85 percent, which would add about $6.44 per month to the average 900 kilowatt-hour residential electric bill. Continue reading
Diversion of Weatherization Funds in Kansas Perplexes Homeowners
Kansas lost more than a thousand jobs and the chance to weatherize thousands of homes, thanks to a state-run loan program that rolled out too slowly. The Brownback administration gave over $20 million to two organizations as a grant, as opposed to having this money flow for years through communities to all kinds of middle class residents. Continue reading
Planned Westar Rate Hike Would be Fifth Since 2008
By Dion Lefler for The Wichita Eagle Since its last official rate review in 2008, Westar Energy has raised its electric rates four times. Those four increases have already cost Kansas customers more than the $91 million the company requested … Continue reading
Utilities Companies Weighing Cost of Environmental Retrofits with Building Newer, Cleaner Energy
An energy case before the Kansas Corporation Commission could set a precedent for how utility companies handle expensive environmental upgrades to their coal plants. Continue reading
Who Should Pay Utilities’ Legal Fees When They Soar?
With only 14 cents a month at stake, Kansas customers of Kansas City Power & Light Co. probably won’t notice the effect of the current battle over their electricity rates. The fight, however, promises to spread to other utilities in the state and across the state line into Missourians’ utility bills of all kinds. At issue is how much the customers of a utility should pay for the outside lawyers and experts the company hires to help win approval of a rate increase Continue reading
Kansas Settles on Route for High-Voltage Power Line
The Kansas Corporation Commission on Tuesday approved the 122-mile “V” route in southwest Kansas that will stretch from near Spearville to east of Medicine Lodge. The decision was the last regulatory hurdle and clears the way for buying land along the route. Continue reading
Kansas Corporation Commission Coal Plant Retrofit Dockets
Table of Contents Background Submit Public Comment Kansas City Power and Light’s Proposal KCP&L’s Proposal and Effect on Westar Customers Links and Resources for Comments Rates Health Environment Economic Development Jobs Background On January 21, 2011 the Kansas Corporation Commission … Continue reading
Retrofitting Power Plants Studied
Staff with the Kansas Corporation Commission have filed a petition to start investigating whether it made more sense to close down large, aging power plants to build new ones or to spend billions retrofitting the plants to meet pending environmental regulations. Continue reading
Public Hearings – Rate Impacts and Coal Plant Retrofits
We strongly encourage you to attend one or both of the public meetings on May 5th or May 10th. These are official KCC public hearings where Westar and KCP&L will make presentations and where the public can ask questions and comment about the retrofits and the request to pass those costs onto customers. Continue reading →