Kentucky Public Service Commission

Final Order Entered: 1. This case is opened to address certain outstanding petitions for confidential treatment. 2. The petitions for confidential treatment listed in Appendix B to this Order are granted. 3. The granting of these petitions shall not be cited as precedent in other proceedings before the Commission. 4. All movants shall review the petitions to determine if the material for which confidential treatment was requested still warrants confidential treatment. 5. A movant shall inform the Commission in writing, and filed in the original case file, if it determines that the information contained in a petition that is granted by this Order no longer warrants confidential treatment. 6. The Commission shall make available for inspection, upon request, any materials that a movant determines no longer warrants confidential treatment. 7. This case is closed and removed from the Commission's docket.

Order Entered: 1. LG&E/KU's March 27, 2014 petition for confidential protection is granted in part and denied in part. 2. LG&E/KU's request for confidential treatment for an indefinite period for the designated material pertaining to its infrastructure information is granted. 3. LG&E/KU's request for confidential treatment for the remaining materials for which confidentiality was requested for a five-year period is denied as moot. 4. The designated materials for which confidentiality was granted shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for an indefinite period, or until further Orders of this Commission. 5. Use of the designated materials pertaining to the designated materials for which confidentiality was granted in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 6. LG&E/KU shall inform the Commission if the designated materials for which confidentiality was granted become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment.

Order Entered: 1. LG&E/KU's January 17, 2014 petition for confidential protection is granted. 2. The designated materials shall not be placed in the public record or made available for an indefinite period, or until further Orders of this Commission. 3. Use of the designated materials in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. LG&E/KU shall inform the Commission if the designated materials become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect the designated materials granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the materials have been granted confidential treatment has not expired, LG&E/KU shall have 30 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the materials still fall within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If LG&E/KU is unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection. 6. The Commission shall not make the designated materials available for inspection for 30 days following an Order finding that the materials no longer qualify for confidential treatment in order to allow LG&E/KU to seek a remedy afforded by law.

Order Entered: 1. Movants' Petition for Confidential Protection is hereby granted. 2. The materials contained in LG&E-KU's responses to the Attorney General's Third Request for Information, Items 2 and 6, and Kentucky Industrial Utility Customers' Third Request for Information, Item 1(a), are hereby granted confidential protection and will not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a period of five years from the date of this Order, or upon further Orders of this Commission. 3. Use of the materials in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Movants shall inform the Commission if the materials granted confidential protection become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect materials granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the materials have been granted confidential treatment has not run, Movants shall have 20 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the materials still fall within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If Movants are unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for Inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for Inspection.

Final Order Entered: (1) The Joint Applicants' request for a CPCN to construct the Brown Solar Facility is granted. (2)The Stipulation filed on October 1, 2014 is approved, including, but not limited to, those provisions of the Stipulation that require: a. The Joint Applicants to use their competitive bidding process for all significant aspects of construction including the award of one or more engineering, procurement, and construction contracts; and b. The Joint Applicants, in future rate proceedings, to allocate the revenues and costs associated with the Brown Solar Facility consistent with the Joint Applicants' jurisdictional Separation Study and cost-of-service principles.

20141215_PSC_Notice of Filing.pdf

LGE and KU Responses to Commission Staffs Post Hearing Request for Information

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Notarized Affidavit-Notice of Public Hearing and Petition for Approval to Deviate from Rule

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Order Entered: A hearing in this matter shall be held on Monday, November 24, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, in Hearing Room 1 of the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky. 2. The official record of these proceedings shall be by video only. 3. Louisville Gas & Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company shall publish notice of the scheduled hearing in accordance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 9(2). 4. Any request to cancel or postpone this hearing shall be made by motion filed with the Commission at least one week before the hearing is scheduled to commence.

Joint Motion for Consideration and Approval of Agreement, Stipulation and Recommendation

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU and LGE

Order Entered: (1) LG&E and KU's Joint Petition for Confidential Treatment is hereby granted. (2) The materials for which LG&E and KU seeks confidential treatment shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a five-year period from the date of this Order, or until further Orders of this Commission. (3) Use of the materials in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). (4) LG&E and KU shall inform the Commission if the materials in question become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment. (5) If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect materials granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the materials have been granted confidential treatment has not run, then LG&E and KU shall have 20 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the materials still fall within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If LG&E and KU are unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection. (6) The Commission shall not make the requested materials available for inspection for 20 days following an Order finding that the materials no longer qualify for confidential treatment in order to allow LG&E and KU to seek a remedy afforded by law.

LGE and KU Joint Petition for Confidential Protection

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses to KIUCs Third Set of Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses o the Attorney Generals Third Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses to Commission Staffs Third Request for Information

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

20140909_PSC_IC Memo.pdf

Data Request

OAGs Third Request for Information from LGE/KU

Gregory T. Dutton Office of the Attorney General

Kentucky Industrial Utility Customers, Inc.s Third Set of Data Requests to Louisville Gas Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities Company

Michael L. Kurtz Kentucky Industrial Utility Customers

20140829_PSC_Letter Regarding Richard Raff Participation.pdf

Order Entered: Joint Applicants' notice of withdrawal is granted and the January 17, 2014 Joint Application shall be treated as amended to remove the CPCN request for the Green River NGCC. 2. The investigation of the request for a CPCN to construct a 10-MW solar photovoltaic facility at the E.W. Brown Generating Station is resumed and the procedural schedule set forth in the appendix, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, to this Order shall be followed.

Supplemental testimony and exhibits of Mr. Sinclair and Petition for Confidential Protection

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Notice of Withdrawal of CPCN for 700 MW Green River Generating Station

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Order Entered: Joint Movants' motion to extend the abeyance of the procedural schedule is granted.

20140814_PSC_IC Memo.pdf

Joint Applicants Motion to Extend Abeyance of Procedural Schedule

Lindsey W. Ingram III Joint Applicants

Order Entered: The Informal Conference currently scheduled for August 7, 2014 at 1100 a.m. shall be rescheduled to August 12, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Hearing Room 2 at the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Blvd., Frankfort, Kentucky

Order Entered: 1. Applicants' Motion to Hold Procedural Schedule in Abeyance is granted. 2. The current procedural schedule as established by the February 6, 2014 Order shall be held in abeyance for a period of 90 days from the date of this Order. 3. The hearing scheduled to begin on July 8, 2014, pursuant to the March 7, 2014 Order, shall be cancelled and rescheduled, if necessary, after the conclusion of the abeyance period. 4. An informal conference shall be scheduled on Thursday, August 7, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, in Conference Room 2 of the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Motion to Hold Procedural Schedule in Abeyance

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU and LGE

LGE and KU files an attachment to the supplemental response to KIUC Question 1-1(e).

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Order Entered: Bluegrass Generation's motion for rehearing and reconsideration is denied.

LGE and KU filing of a supplement to David S. Sinclairs Testimony, Exhibit DSS-1, Appendix A

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Supplemental Response to KIUCs First Set of Data Requests, Question No. 1(e)

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses to Wallace McMullen and Sierra Clubs Second Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Joint Motion for Deviation

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company

LGE and KU Joint Petition for Confidential Protection

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses to KIUCs Second Set of Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses to AGs Supplemental Requests for Information

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU responses to Commission Staffs Second Information Request

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Motion to Admit Kristin Henry Pro Hac Vice

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Joint Applicants Response to Bluegrass Motion for Rehearing

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU LGE

Wallace McMullens and Sierra Clubs Corrected Supplemental Data Requests to Companies

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Order Entered: Shannon W. Fisk is admitted pro hac vice for the purpose of representing Sierra Club in the above-styled proceeding, provided that Joe Childers or another member of the Kentucky Bar Association acts as co-counsel and is present at any and all proceedings before this Commission.

Order Entered: Susan Laureign Williams is admitted pro hac vice for the purpose of representing Sierra Club in the above-styled proceeding, provided that Joe Childers or another member of the Kentucky Bar Association acts as co-counsel and is present at any and all proceedings before this Commission.

Order Entered: Matthew E. Gerhart is admitted pro hac vice for the purpose of representing Sierra Club in the above-styled proceeding, provided that Joe Childers or another member of the Kentucky Bar Association acts as co-counsel and is present at any and all proceedings before this Commission.

Wallace McMullens and Sierra Clubs Supplemental Data Requests

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

KIUCs 2nd Set of Data Requests to Kentucky Utilities Company and Louisville Gas Electric Company

Michael L. Kurtz Kentucky Industrial Utility Customers

Data Request

Supplemental Requests for Information

Gregory T. Dutton Office of the Attorney General

Intervention rehearing motion

John N. Hughes Bluegrass Generation Company LLC

Public Comments of Big Rivers Electric Corporation

James M. Miller, Counsel Big Rivers Electric Corporation

LGE and KU Supplemental Attachment to Response to Wallace McMullen and Sierra Clubs Initial Data Request No. 1.18(a)

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Motion to Admit Susan Laureign Williams Pro Hac Vice

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Motions to Admit Shannon Fisk and Matthew Gerhart Pro Hac Vice

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Order Entered: Khanjee's motion to intervene is denied.

Joint Motion for Deviation

Kendrick R. Riggs, Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Joint Petition for Confidential Protection of Responses to Initial Request from Commission Staff and Intervenors

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Responses to Wallace McMullen and Sierra Clubs Initial Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Responses to KIUCs First Set of Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Responses to the Attorney Generals Initial Data Requests

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

LGE and KU Responses to the Commission Staffs First Information Request

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Khanjee Infrastructure Development, LLCs Response to LGE and KUs Response to Khanjees Motion to Intervene

Order Entered: Bluegrass's motion to intervene is denied.

Order Entered: Big Rivers' motion to intervene is denied.

Order Entered Denying Robert S. Chatham's Motion to Intervene.

Instructions to the Attorney General’s Initial Requests for Information

Gregory T. Dutton Office of the Attorney General

KIUC 1st Set Data Requests to KU and LGE

Michael L. Kurtz Kentucky Industrial Utility Customers

Data request

John N. Hughes Bluegrass Generation Company

Sierra Clubs Initial Data Requests to Companies

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Attorney Generals First Request for Information to LGE/KU

Gregory T. Dutton Office of the Attorney General

Data Request

Order Entered: (1) Petitioners' request for full intervenor status is granted, and Petitioners shall accept the existing procedural schedule. (2) Petitioners shall be entitled to the full rights of a party and shall be served with the Commission's Orders after the date of this Order. (3) Petitioners shall comply with all provisions of the Commission's regulations, 807 KAR 5:001, Section 8, related to the service and electronic filing of documents. (4) Pursuant to 807 KAR 5:001, Section (8)(9), the Petitioners shall file with the Commission within seven days from the date of this Order, a written statement that Petitioners waive their right to service of any Commission Order by mail for purposes of this proceeding only, and certify that they possess the facilities to receive electronic transmission.

Reply Brief in Support of Motion for Leave to Intervene

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Joint Applicants Response to Chatham Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III LGE and KU

Order Entered: (1) A hearing in this matter shall be held on July 8, 2014, at 10:00 am. Eastern Daylight Time, in Hearing Room 1 of the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky. (2) Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company ("Joint Applicants") shall publish notice of this hearing in compliance with KRS 424.300 and 807 KAR 5:001, Section 9(2). (3) The Joint Applicants shall file with the Commission no later than July 7, 2014, proof of publication of its notice of the hearing in each of the publications in which it published notice. (4) The official record of these proceedings shall be by video only. (5) Any request to cancel or postpone this hearing shall be made by motion filed with the Commission at least one week before the hearing scheduled to commence.

Joint Applicants Respnose to McMulllen and Sierra Club Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III LGE and KU

Robert S. Chatham Motion to Intervene

Public Filing of Joint Applicants February 21, 2014 Response to Bluegrass Generation Company, LLCs Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU and LGE

Joint Applicants Response to Khanjee Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU and LGE

Reply

John N. Hughes Bluegrass Generation Company

Motion of Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club to Intervene

Joe F. Childers Wallace McMullen and Sierra Club

Attorney Generals Reply and Notice of Protest to Joint Applicants Confidential Response to Bluegrass Generation Companys Motion to Intervene

Angela M. Goad Office of Attorney General

Big Rivers letter in response to the Sur-reply of KU and LGE

Tyson Kamuf Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Joint Applicants Response to Bluegrass Generation Companys Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU and LGE

Joint Applicants Sur-Reply to Big Rivers Reply to Joint Applicants Response to Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III KU and LGE

Khanjee Infrastructure Development LLCs Petition to Intervene

Reply of Big Rivers to LGE and KUs Response to Big Rivers Motion to Intervene.

Tyson Kamuf Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Motion to Intervene

John N. Hughes Bluegrass Generation Company LLC

Joint Applicants Response to BREC Motion to Intervene

Lindsey W. Ingram III

Order Entered: 1. The procedural schedule set forth in the Appendix, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be followed. 2. a. All requests for information and responses thereto shall be appropriately bound, tabbed, and indexed and shall include the name of the witness who will be responsible for responding to questions related to the information provided. Any request for information from the Commission Staff shall be responded to as if set forth in a Commission Order. b. Each response shall be answered under oath, or for representatives of a public or private corporation or a partnership or an association or a governmental agency, be accompanied by a signed certification of the preparer or person supervising the preparation of the response on behalf of the entity that the response is true and accurate to the best of that person's knowledge, information, and belief formed after a reasonable inquiry. c. A party shall make timely amendment to any prior response if it obtains information which indicates that the response was incorrect when made or, though correct when made, is now incorrect in any material respect. d. For any request to which a party fails or refuses to furnish all or part of the requested information, that party shall provide a written explanation of the specific grounds for its failure to completely and precisely respond.

Attorney Generals Written Statement waiving right to service of Commission Orders by U.S. mail for this proceeding.

Gregory T. Dutton Office of the Attorney General

Order Entered: 1. The Attorney General's motion is granted. 2. The Attorney General shall be entitled to the full rights of a party and shall be served with the Commission's Orders after the date of this Order. 3. The Attorney General shall comply with all provisions of the Commission's regulation, 807 KAR 5:001, Section 8, related to the service and electronic filing of documents. 4. Pursuant to 807 KAR 5:001, Section 8(9), the Attorney General shall file with the Commission within seven days from the date of this Order, a written statement that the Attorney General waives his right to service of any Commission Order by mail for purposes of this proceeding only, and certifies that he possesses the facilities to receive electronic transmission.

Big Rivers Electric Corporations Motion to Intervene

Tyson Kamuf Big Rivers Electric Corporation

Motion to Intervene

Gregory T. Dutton Office of the Attorney General

20140128_PSC_No Deficiency Letter.pdf

Order Entered: (1) The petition of KIUC to intervene is granted. (2) KIUC shall be entitled to the full rights of a party and shall be served with the Commission's Orders and with filed testimony, exhibits, pleadings, correspondence, and all other documents submitted by parties after the date of this Order. (3) Should KIUC file documents of any kind with the Commission in the course of these proceedings, KIUC shall also serve a copy of said documents on all other parties of record.

JOINT APPLICATION OF LOUISVILLE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY AND KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY FOR CERTIFICATES OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMBINED CYCLE COMBUSTION TURBINE AT THE GREEN RIVER GENERATING STATION AND A SOLAR PHOTO

Rick E. Lovekamp Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company

Kentucky Industrial Utility Customers Inc. Petition to Intervene

20140102_PSC_Acknowledgement Letter.pdf

LGE and KU Notice of Intent and Election to File Joint Application for Certificates of PCN for the Construction of a Combined Cycle Combustion Turbine at the Green River Generating Station and a Solar Photovoltaic Facility at the E.W. Brown Generating Stat