Evergy customers across the KVOE listening area can expect to pay slightly more in their monthly bills beginning next month.
The Kansas Corporation Commission says residential customers will pay an additional 36 cents per month, or around $4.32 additional per year on average. Evergy had applied for $310 million in so-called Transmission Delivery Charge revenues, up over $20 million from its prior request.
Evergy and other utilities are authorized to adjust their so-called TDCs to cover changes in costs. The KCC has no discretion to adjust or refuse those changes initially, but it can order refunds or other adjustments if “irregularities” are discovered later.
Evergy, meanwhile, says major increases in natural gas and wholesale power prices last year led to higher net fuel and purchased power costs, and that does not include the devastating cold period in February 2021. The utility says it had an “under-recovery” of around $172 million, but it also says it has asked the KCC to delay the recovery of about $52 million of that amount. Approval is pending, but residential customers’ monthly bills could still go up around $3 starting next month if the KCC signs off.
