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Title: Regulators to the rescue: PSC's restrain runaway utilities. [Missouri PSC and Kansas City Power and Light Co]

Journal Article · · Power Line; (United States)
OSTI ID:5188620

The Missouri Public Service Commission's refusal to let the Kansas City utility include a new plant in its rate base because the utility already has excess capacity could set a precedent for halting expansion plans across the country. The Missouri PSC staff accused the utility of ignoring conservation goals, distorting facts, and planning to speculate on the wholesale power market at the ratepayers' expense. Other state regulators unhappy with poor utility planning can be expected to take a good look at the Missouri decision. Regulators in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have already taken a hard line with the nuclear industry since the Three Mile Island accident. (DCK)

OSTI ID:
5188620
Journal Information:
Power Line; (United States), Vol. 5:12
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English