STATE OF MISSOURI
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
At a session of the Public Service Commission held at its office in St. Joseph on the 3rd day of September, 2014.
In the Matter of the Resource Plan of KCP&L Greater )
Missouri
Operations Company Pursuant to 4 CSR 240-22 ) File
No. EO 2014-0257
Issue Date: September 3, 2014
The Commission’s Electric Utility Resource Planning Rule requires each Missouri electric utility to submit an annual update to its triennial compliance filing in each year for which it is not required to submit a new triennial compliance filing.[1] KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company (“GMO”) made a triennial compliance filing in 2012 and its next triennial compliance filing is due in 2015.[2]
As required by the regulation, GMO filed an Integrated Resource Plan Update and conducted an annual update workshop. The company filed a required summary report regarding that workshop on April 21, 2014.[3]
The regulation allows stakeholders to file comments regarding the utility’s annual update report and summary report within thirty days after the utility files the summary report.[4] On May 21[5], the Missouri Division of Energy (“DE”) and the Sierra Club filed comments.
DE’s comments praise GMO for having done a thorough job in updating its 2012 IRP. DE, however, believes that GMO should have included a detailed analysis of its solar rebate payments.
Sierra Club comments express concern that GMO’s annual update does not contain sufficient analysis of changing conditions and fails to address unresolved issues from the company’s 2012 IRP filing. GMO responded on July 1. GMO acknowledges the issues identified by Sierra Club, and represents that it will be filing a triennial report on or before April 1, 2015.
Commission Rule 4 CSR 240-22.080(3) establishes a utility’s obligation to host an annual update workshop and to file an annual update report following that workshop. 4 CSR 240-22.080(3)(D) allows stakeholders an opportunity to file comments regarding the utility’s annual update report, but that rule does not allow for a hearing regarding the annual update report and it does not require the Commission to take any action regarding that report. As a result, there is no need for further decision or action by the Commission at this time. Therefore, the Commission will close this file.
Morris L. Woodruff
Secretary
R. Kenney, Chm., Stoll, W. Kenney,
Hall, and Rupp, CC., concur.
Pridgin, Deputy Chief Regulatory Law Judge