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. EKPC's motion for confidential protection is granted in part and denied in part. 2. EKPC's request for confidential treatment of information set forth in its response to Staff's Post-Hearing Request, Item 2, is granted. The information set forth in EKPC's response to Staff's Post-Hearing Request, Item 2, shall remain confidential for a period of ten years. 3. EKPC's request for confidential treatment of information set forth in EKPC's response to Staff's Post-Hearing Request, Items 8 and 9, is denied. 4. Within seven days of the date of this Order, EKPC shall file a revised response to Staffs Post-Hearing Request, Items 8 and 9, reflecting as unredacted the information that has been denied confidential treatment. 5. The materials set forth in EKPC's response to Staffs Post-Hearing Request, Item 2, for which EKPC's request for confidential treatment has been granted, shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a period of ten years. 6. The materials set forth in EKPC's response to Staff's Post-Hearing Request, Items 8 and 9, for which EKPC's request for confidential treatment has been denied, shall not be placed in the public record or made available for inspection for 20 days from the date of this Order to allow Movant to seek a remedy afforded by law. 7. Use of the materials that were granted confidential treatment in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9).

Letter Filing Unredacted December 01, 2015 Order

Final Order Entered: 1. EKPC's requests to acquire Bluegrass Station and to assume the evidences of indebtedness associated with the Bluegrass Station acquisition are approved. 2. Within seven days after the closing of the Bluegrass Station transaction, EKPC shall file written notification to the Commission detailing the status of the transaction. 3. EKPC shall file an annual Operating Report setting forth details of the performance of the Bluegrass Station as discussed in the findings above no later than March 31, 2017, and annually thereafter until the Commission orders otherwise. 4. EKPC shall include in its Operating Report an annual evaluation of how the Bluegrass Station units would qualify for the CP market in the PJM capacity markets product and how EKPC is addressing the related risk exposure. 5. Within 30 days of the closing of the transaction, EKPC shall file the journal entries reflecting how the transaction was recorded. 6. Any documents filed pursuant to ordering paragraph 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Order shall reference the number of this case and shall be retained in the utility's general correspondence file.

LG&E and KU Answer to EKPC Complaint in Pending FERC Action

Order Entered: 1. EKPC's motion for confidential protection is granted in part and denied in part. 2. EKPC's request for confidential treatment of information set forth in Appendix A to this Order is granted. The information set forth in Appendix A shall remain confidential for a period of ten years. 3. EKPC's request for confidential treatment of information set forth in Appendix B to this Order is denied. 4. The materials set forth in Appendix A to this Order for which EKPC's request for confidential treatment has been granted shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a period of ten years. 5. The materials set forth in Appendix B to this Order for which EKPC's request for confidential treatment has been denied shall not be placed in the public record or made available for inspection for 20 days from the date of this Order in order to allow Movant to seek a remedy afforded by law. 6. Use of the materials that were granted confidential treatment in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 7. EKPC shall inform the Commission if the materials granted confidential treatment become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment.

Order Entered: 1. EKPC's Motion to Withdraw and Replace Document is granted. 2. EKPC's Supplemental Motion for Confidential Treatment of a portion of the O&M Agreement, submitted in response to Commission Staffs First Request for Information to EKPC, Item 1O.a., is granted. 3.The materials granted confidential protection shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a period of ten years, or until further Order of this Commission. 4. Use of the materials in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 5. EKPC shall inform the Commission if the materials granted confidential protection become publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment. 6. 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, EKPC 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 EKPC is unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection.

AG Notice Regarding Final Brief

EKPC Response to Post-Hearing Data Request and Motion for Confidential Treatment

Notice of Filing Hearing Documents

EKPC Notice of Publication

EKPC Revised Responses

Order Entered: The October 12, 2015 Order is modified to the limited extent that the hearing scheduled on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, shall commence at 9:00 a.m. EST, in Hearing Room 1 of the Commission's offices at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky. 2. All other provisions of the October 12, 2015 Order shall remain in full force and effect.

Order Entered: 1. A hearing in this matter shall be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 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. 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. 4. At the public hearing in this matter, neither opening statements nor summarization of direct testimonies shall be permitted.

East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. Motion to Schedule Hearing

LGE and KU Notice of Not Filing Testimony

EKPC Response to LGE and KU Supplemental Request for Information

EKPC Response to Second Request for Information

EKPC Revised Response to Item No. 52(b) of Commission Staff's First Request for Information

Commission Staff's Second Information Request to East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.

LGE and KU Supplemental Request for Information to EKPC

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Motion to Withdraw and Replace and Supplemental Motion for Confidential Treatment

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to LGE and KU Request for Information

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Motion for Confidential Treatment

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to AGs Request for Information

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to PSC First Request for Information with CD Attachments

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to PSC First Request for Information with CD Attachments

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to PSC First Request for Information with CD Attachments

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to PSC First Request for Information with CD Attachments

East Kentucky Power Coop. Inc. Response to PSC First Request for Information with CD Attachments

Commission Staff's First Request for Information to East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc.

LGE and KU Data Requests to East Kentucky Power

AG's Data Request

Order Entered: 1. The motion of the Companies to intervene is granted. 2. The Companies 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. The Companies shall comply with all provisions of the Commission's regulation, 807 KAR 5:001, Section 7, related to the service and filing of documents. 4. The Companies shall adhere to the procedural schedule set forth in the Commission's July 31 , 2015 Order and as amended by subsequent Orders. 5. Within seven days of entry of this Order, the Companies shall provide their electronic mail address to which all electronic documents issued by the Commission and other parties of record may be served upon the Companies in accordance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 4(8)(b) .

No Deficiency Letter

Order Entered: 1. The motion of Nucor to intervene is granted. 2. Nucor 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. Nucor shall comply with all provisions of the Commission's regulation, 807 KAR 5:001, Section 7, related to the service and filing of documents. 4. Nucor shall adhere to the procedural schedule set forth in the Commission's July 31 , 2015 Order and as amended by subsequent Orders. 5. Within seven days of entry of this Order, Nucor shall provide its electronic mail address to which all electronic documents issued by the Commission and other parties of record may be served upon Nucor in accordance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 4(8)(b).

Order Entered: 1. The motion of the Attorney General to intervene 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 and with filed testimony, exhibits, pleadings, correspondence, and all other documents submitted by parties 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 7, related to the service and filing of documents. 4. The Attorney General shall adhere to the procedural schedule set forth in the Commission's July 31 , 2015 Order and as amended by subsequent Orders.

Order Entered: 1. EKPC's request for approval to assume certain evidences of indebtedness in connection with the acquisition of the existing simple cycle combustion turbine facilities at Bluegrass Station as set forth in its application is continued beyond the 60-day period specified in KRS 278.300(2). 2. The procedural schedule set forth in the Appendix to this Order shall be followed. 3. a. Responses to requests for information shall be appropriately bound, tabbed and indexed and shall include the name of the witness responsible for responding to the questions related to the information provided, with copies to all parties of record and an original and ten copies to the Commission. b. Each response shall be answered under oath or, for representatives of a public or private corporation or a partnership or 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. Any 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.

KU and LGE Motion to Intervene

Nucor Steel Gallatin Motion to Intervene

AG's Motion to Intervene and Waiver

Acknowledge Receipt of Filing

EKPC Application for Approval of the Acquisition of Existing Combustion Turbine Facilities from Bluegrass Generation Company, LLC at the Bluegrass Generation Station in LaGrange, Oldham County, Kentucky and for Approval of the Assumption of Certain Evidences of Indebtedness

EKPC Application for Approval of the Acquisition of Existing Combustion Turbine Facilities from Bluegrass Generation Company, LLC at the Bluegrass Generation Station in LaGrange, Oldham County, Kentucky and for Approval of the Assumption of Certain Evidences of Indebtedness

EKPC Application for Approval of the Acquisition of Existing Combustion Turbine Facilities from Bluegrass Generation Company, LLC at the Bluegrass Generation Station in LaGrange, Oldham County, Kentucky and for Approval of the Assumption of Certain Evidences of Indebtedness