Kentucky

Legislation Passed
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Electric
Overview

• In 2001, the Kentucky Electricity Restructuring Task Force recommended that lawmakers wait until the 2002 General Assembly to consider opening the state’s electric industry to competition.
• The Kentucky Electricity Restructuring Task Force, established by the legislature in 1998, concluded in its 1999 report that the average rate level in Kentucky would be very similar under either a regulated or retail choice environment, and that customers would see higher prices in periods of tight capacity.

Natural Gas
Overview

• In January 2000, the Kentucky Public Service Commission approved a 5-year pilot customer choice program for residential and small-volume commercial customers of Columbia Gas of Kentucky. The program is effective from February 1, 2000, through January 31, 2005, and is available to all Columbia customers who consume less than 25 million cubic feet of natural gas per year.
• Columbia will continue as the supplier of last resort and remain in the merchant business, both selling and transporting natural gas to consumers. The company has about 126,000 residential and 14,000 commercial customers in Kentucky.
• Larger volume customers throughout the state have had access to unbundled service since the 1980s.

Choice Status

• The state has approved a pilot customer choice program for residential customers.

Utility Regulatory Commission
Kentucky Public Service Commission
502-564-3940
www.psc.state.ky.us/

Consumer advocate
Consumer Services Division
1-800-772-4636
www.psc.state.ky.us/agencies/psc/el_r_idx.htm