PR-09-147 -- MEDIA REMINDER: PSC To Hold Local Public Hearing In Lee's Summit In Electric Rate Case

Contact: Kevin Kelly (573) 751-9300

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- FEBRUARY 23, 2009

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing in Lee’s Summit on March 2, 2009 to receive customer comment on an electric rate case filed by KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company (formerly Aquila, Inc.).  The local public hearing will also give consumers an opportunity to bring any service related issues to the commission’s attention.  The local public hearing schedule appears below.

Lee’s Summit North High School

Lecture Hall  

901 NE Douglas St. 

5:30 p.m.   PSC staff information session starts.

 6:00 p.m.   Local public hearing begins.  The hearing will conclude when every person who wishes to testify has done so.

  This local public hearing will be held in a building that meets accessibility standards required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Any person who needs additional accommodations to participate in this hearing should call the Public Service Commission’s hotline at 1-800-392-4211 (voice) or Relay Missouri at 711 prior to the hearing.

Consumers unable to attend the local public hearing and wish to make written comments may contact the Office of the Public Counsel, Governor Office Building, 200 Madison Street, Suite 650, P.O. Box 2230, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-2230, telephone (866) 922-2959, e-mail opcservice@ded.mo.gov or the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102, telephone 800-392-4211, e-mail pscinfo@psc.mo.gov .

On September 5, 2008, KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company filed an electric rate case with the Missouri Public Service Commission.  The company seeks to increase annual electric revenues by approximately $66 million in the area formerly served by Aquila Networks-MPS (for a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity, the proposed increase would be approximately $12.50 a month).  The company seeks to increase annual electric revenues by approximately $17 million in the area formerly served by Aquila Networks-L&P (for a residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity, the proposed increase would be approximately $10.00 a month).  

KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company provides electric service to approximately 300,000 customers in Missouri.

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Case No. ER-2009-0090