The Kansas Corporation Commission is now reviewing an electric rate study after sending a previous version back for more transparency.
Last year, the Legislature commissioned a rate study to help both lawmakers and regulators work on energy policy. Lawmakers then chose AECOM to finish the second part of the study after London Economics International worked on the first part, but AECOM submitted a heavily redacted report — prompting the KCC to tell AECOM to either remove the redactions or have legitimate reasons for them because lawmakers could not fully view the results.
The study involves electric public and cooperative utilities and the three largest municipally-owned or operated electric utilities by customer count. It delves into topics like cost recovery and rate design for electric vehicle charging services, so-called advanced energy solutions, costs and benefits of transmission investments on electricity imports and exports, grid stabilization rates and impacts of retail electric rates on economic development.
