Kentucky Public Service Commission

Final Order Entered: 1. The Solar Facilities as proposed and discussed herein are properly classified as an ordinary extension of existing systems in the usual course of business, and a CPCN, pursuant to KRS 278.020.(1 ), is not required for their construction. 2. Duke Kentucky shall file a notice with the Commission when each of the three Solar Facilities has been constructed. 3. Any documents filed in the future pursuant to ordering paragraph 2 herein shall reference this case number and shall be retained in the utility's general correspondence files. 4. The Executive Director is delegated authority to grant reasonable extension of time for the filing of any documents required by ordering paragraph 2 of this Order upon Duke Kentucky's showing of good cause.

Order Entered: 1. Duke's petition for confidential protection for the designated material contained in its response to Item 9 is granted. 2. The designated material contained in the response to Item 9 shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection until further Orders of this Commission. 3. Use of the material in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Duke shall inform the Commission if the material in question becomes publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect the material granted confidential treatment by this Order and the period during which the material has been granted confidential treatment has not expired, then Duke shall have 20 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the material still falls within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If Duke is unable to make such demonstration, the requested material shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection. 6. The Commission shall not make the requested material available for inspection for 20 days following an Order finding that the material no longer qualifies for confidential treatment in order to allow Duke to seek a remedy afforded by law.

Case No. 2017-00155 - Commission Staffs Second Set of Data Request

Deborah Gates Rocco DAscenzo

Data Request

Case No. 2017-00155 - In the Matter of the Application of Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc., for an Order Declaring the Construction of Solar Facilities is an Ordinary Extension of Existing Systems in the Usual Course of Business

Deborah Gates Rocco DAscenzo

Data Request

Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc.s Application for an Order Declaring the Construction of Solar Facilities is an Ordinary Extension of Existing Systems in the Usual Course of Business.

Adele M. Frisch Rocco O. DAscenzo

Order Entered: 1. All future correspondence or filings in connection with this case shall reference the above case number. 2. All documents submitted in this proceeding shall comply with the Commission’s rules of procedure as set forth in 807 KAR 5:001 and any deviation from these rules shall be submitted in writing to the Commission for consideration. 3. Any party filing a paper shall upload an electronic version using the Commission's E-Filing System and shall file an original and six copies in paper medium, except that only two copies in paper medium shall be filed of maps, plans, specifications, and drawings pursuant to 807 KAR 5:001, Section 15(2)(d). 4. Any request for confidential treatment of material submitted shall conform to the requirements in 807 KAR 5:001(13). 5. Materials submitted to the Commission which do not comply with the rules of procedure or that do not have an approved deviation are subject to rejection pursuant to 807 KAR 5:001, Section 3.

Duke Energy Kentucky, Inc. Notice of Intent to File Application for an Order Declaring the Construction of Solar Facilities is an Ordinary Extension of Existing Systems in the Usual Course of Business Using Electronic Filing Procedures