{"id":"AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-001","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Kentucky (State public utility commission)","state":"KY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG","eco":"","issuer":"Kentucky Public Service Commission","authority":"KRS 278.030, 278.040(1)-(2); Kentucky Public Service Com\u0027n v. Commonwealth ex rel. Conway, 324 S.W.3d 373, 383 (Ky. 2010) (recited)","instrument":"Order, Case No. 2020-00085, Electronic Emergency Docket Related to the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19","title":"Order establishing the COVID-19 emergency docket; directing utilities to cease disconnections for non-payment and waive late payment charges; granting deviations from filing and reporting regulations","dateIssued":"2020-03-16","effective":"2020-03-16 (entered March 16, 2020; \u0027in effect until further notice\u0027)","end":"Disconnection moratorium lifted beginning October 20, 2020 by the order of September 21, 2020 (Ex. 002); residential late-fee waiver continued to December 31, 2020 (Ex. 002)","startDate":"2020-03-16","endDate":"2020-10-20","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4"],"types":["OTHER","CRT"],"addressees":["all Commission-jurisdictional electric, natural gas, water and sewer utilities (investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, water districts and associations)","filers before the Commission"],"clause":"Based on the foregoing and being otherwise duly advised, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 1. Until otherwise ordered by the Commission, utilities shall cease disconnections for non-payment. 2. Until otherwise ordered by the Commission, utilities shall waive all late payment charges. 3. Until otherwise ordered by the Commission, filers are granted deviation from filing or transmitting physical documents... 7. Until further ordered by the Commission, utilities are granted deviation from the requirements found in: a. 807 KAR 5:006, Section 4(4); b. 807 KAR 5:006, Section 4(5) [disconnection reports]... 9. This case shall remain open until further order by the Commission.","enforcement":"Commission orders are enforceable under KRS 278.990 (civil penalties for willful violation of Commission orders) and KRS 278.390 (orders remain in force until changed by the Commission); the order recites the Commission\u0027s \u0027plenary authority to regulate and investigate utilities\u0027 under KRS 278.030 and 278.040 and states that \u0027nothing in this Order should be conveyed as relieving customers from the obligation to pay for service rendered\u0027","functions":["OP credit, collections and billing operations of every jurisdictional utility (disconnection for nonpayment prohibited; late fees prohibited)","SV field service crews and disconnection/reconnection contractors (disconnection work orders suspended)","CB customer base and cash flow (arrearages accumulate; payment plans mandated later)","OF regulatory filings converted to electronic; physical filings suspended","WF utilities\u0027 workforce redeployed from collections to continuity of service"],"notes":"The Commission noted that Duke Energy, American Water Works, American Electric Power, Central States Water Resources and Atmos Energy had announced voluntary suspensions and that \u0027many utilities in Kentucky have yet to officially announce\u0027 any suspension; the order made the suspension mandatory for all jurisdictional utilities. Footnotes 11-16 cite the parallel actions of New Jersey, Connecticut PURA, New York, the Ohio PUCO (Case 20-591-AU-UNC DocumentRecord), the Louisiana PSC Chairman\u0027s executive order and the Wisconsin PSC. Municipal utilities are outside the Commission\u0027s jurisdiction and were \u0027urged\u0027 to follow (n.1).","sourceUrl":"https://psc.ky.gov/pscscf/2020%20Cases/2020-00085/20200316_PSC_ORDER.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":4598459,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG","url":"/library/AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-001","citation":"Kentucky Public Service Commission, Order, Case No. 2020-00085, Electronic Emergency Docket Related to the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (Mar. 16, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-001)","stateName":"Kentucky","related":[]}