Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. Cumberland Valley's Motion to Withdraw and Replace Documents is hereby granted. 2. Cumberland Valley's Motion for Confidential Treatment is granted in part and denied in part. 3. Pursuant to KRS 61.878, except for executive officer compensation information, the information for which Cumberland Valley requests confidential protection shall not be placed in the public record or made available for inspection for ten years, or until further Order of the Commission. 4. The executive officer compensation information for which Cumberland Valley requests confidential protection does not fall within the scope of KRS 61.878, and, therefore, is denied confidential protection. 5. Within 14 days of the date of this Order, Cumberland Valley shall file a revised Application and Responses reflecting as unredacted the information which has been denied confidential treatment in accordance with ordering paragraphs 2 and 3. 6. Use of the materials deemed confidential in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 7. Cumberland Valley shall inform the Commission if the materials deemed confidential become publicly available or no longer qualify for confidential treatment.

Final Order Entered: 1. The rates proposed by Cumberland Valley would produce revenues in excess of the amount found reasonable herein and are hereby denied. 2. The rates set forth in the Appendix to this Order are approved for services rendered by Cumberland Valley on and after the date of this Order. 3. Within 20 days of the date of this Order, Cumberland Valley shall file with this Commission, using the Commission's electronic Tariff Filing System, new tariff sheets setting forth the rates and charges approved herein and reflecting their effective date and that they were authorized by this Order. 4. In future rate applications, Cumberland Valley shall perform a formal study that provides local wage and benefit information for the geographic area where Cumberland Valley operates, which shall include state data where available. 5. Cumberland Valley shall file a report, within 60 days of the date of this Order, setting forth the employer and employee contribution amounts and percentages Cumberland Valley will implement for health and dental insurance premiums offered to salaried employees, along with the date the revised contribution schedule will be implemented. Within 30 days of the date that the revised employer/employee health and dental insurance premium contribution schedule is implemented, Cumberland Valley shall file evidence of its implementation.

Order Entered: 1. Cumberland Valley's petition for confidential protection for its response to Staff's Fourth Request, Item 8, is granted. 2. The materials set forth in Cumberland Valley's response to Staff's Fourth Request, Item 8, shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection for a period of ten years, 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. Cumberland Valley 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 Cumberland Valley 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 Cumberland Valley is unable to make such demonstration, the requested materials shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection.

Attorney Generals Read1st and Notice to Submit Case on the Record

Angela M. Goad Office of the Attorney General

CVEs Statement re Briefing and Submission of Case

M. Evan Buckley Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

CVEs Responses to Post-Hearing Requests for Information

M. Evan Buckley Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

20161208_PSC Notice of Filing.pdf

Data Request

Attorney Generals Post Hearing Data Requests

Kent A Chandler Kentucky Office of the Attorney General

Proof of Publication of Notice of Hearing

Mark David Goss Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

CVEs Response to Staffs Fourth Request for Information (redacted) with M. for Confidential Treatment

Mark David Goss Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Requests for Newspaper Publication and copy of Notice re hearing 11/30/16 (per Order of 9/28/16).

Mark David Goss Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Data Request

CVEs Supplemental Response to Item No. 2 of the Attorney General’s Initial Request for Information (rate case expense update)

Mark David Goss Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Order Entered: 1. A hearing in this matter shall be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, at the offices of the Public Service Commission at 211 Sower Boulevard, Frankfort, Kentucky. 2. Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. ("Cumberland Valley") shall give notice of the hearing in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 9(2)(b). In addition, the notice of hearing shall include the following statement: "This hearing will be streamed live and may be viewed on the PSC website, psc.ky.gov." At the time the notice is mailed or publication is requested, Cumberland Valley shall forward a duplicate of the notice and request to the Commission. 3. Pursuant to KRS 278.360 and 807 KAR 5:001, Section 9(9)(a), the record of the formal hearing in this matter shall be by digital video recording.

Cumberland Valleys Response to Commission Staffs Third Request for Information and Attorney Generals Second Request for Information in Case No. 2016-00169.

Robert Dell Tolliver Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Notice of Entry of Appearance of Goss Samford, PLLC, on behalf of Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Mark David Goss Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Attorney Generals Supplemental Request for Information

Angela M. Goad Office of the Attorney General

Data Request

Cumberland Valley Electrics response to Attorney Generals Initial Request for Information.

Robert Dell Tolliver Cumberland Valley Electric

Cumberland Valley Electrics response to Commission Staffs Second Request for Information.

Robert Dell Tolliver Cumberland Valley Electric

Attorney Generals Initial Request for Information

Kent A Chandler Kentucky Office of the Attorney General

Data Request

Attorney Generals Written Statement

Angela M. Goad Office of the Attorney General

Order Entered: 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 regulations, 807 KAR 5:001, Section 8, related to the service and filing of documents.

Attorney Generals Motion to Intervene

Angela M. Goad Office of the Attorney General

Order Entered: Cumberland Valley's rates are suspended for five months from July 25, 2016, up to and including December 24, 2016. 2. The procedural schedule set forth in the Appendix to this Order, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be followed. 3- 3- Responses to requests for information in paper medium shall be appropriately bound, tabbed and indexed and shall include the name of the witness responsible for responding to questions related to the information provided, with an original and five copies in paper medium and an electronic version to the Commission. 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. 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. 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.

20160627_PSC Deficiency Cured Letter.pdf

Find attached Cumberland Valley Electrics response to filing deficiency as referenced in letter from the PSC dated June 10, 2016 in case #2016-00169.

Robert Dell Tolliver Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Cumberland Valley Electrics response to Commission Staffs First Request for Information in Case No. 2016-00169.

Robert Dell Tolliver Cumberland Valley Electric

20160614_PSC IC Memo.pdf

20160610_PSC Deficiency Letter.pdf

Notice of Informal Conference

Application for adjustment of rates.

Robert Dell Tolliver Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc.

Data Request

20160505_PSC Acknowledgement Letter.pdf

Cumberland Valley Electric, Inc. Notice of Intent to File Application for a General Rate Increase Using Electronic Filing Procedures