Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. EKPC shall include a $522,666 monthly increase in its jurisdictional environmental revenue requirement determined in each of the first two billing months following the date of this Order, as discussed herein. 2. EKPC shall use a rate of return of 6.129 percent in all monthly environmental surcharge filings subsequent to the date of this Order until a revised rate of return is approved by the Commission. 3. EKPC shall revise its Rate ES-Environmental Surcharge tariff from a two month “true-up” adjustment to a one-month “true-up” adjustment at the wholesale level with regard to over- and under- recoveries. EKPC shall be allowed to implement this change by including two months of over- and under-recoveries in the first monthly environmental filing after the date of this Order. 4. Within 20 days of the date of this Order, EKPC shall file its revised Rate ES-Environmental Surcharge tariff reflecting the change discussed herein. 5. EKPC’s Member Cooperatives shall include the applicable monthly retail pass-through adjustments shown in the Appendix to this Order in the determination of each Member Cooperative’s pass-through mechanism in each of the first two billing months following the date of this Order, as discussed herein. 6. The 16 Member Cooperatives identified in the Appendix of this Order shall be authorized to discontinue the use of the two-month "true-up" adjustment and return to the practice that was in place prior to the final Order in Case No. 2009-0