07/02: House Bill 1402, the "Consumer Clean Energy Act," required
retail electric suppliers to set net metering standards by August 28, 2003.
According to the Missouri House of Representatives' summary, the Missouri Public
Service Commission would develop a contract that allowed excess electricity
produced by the consumer to be sold to the local utility. The seller would "receive
credit for renewable energy generation and emission avoidance." The PSC
would issue the contracts "on a first-come, first-served basis until statewide
capacity equaled the lesser of 10,000 kilowatts or 0.1 percent of the peak
demand for each supplier of electricity during the previous year."
09/01: The Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) approved the reorganization
of Kansas City Power & Light (KCPL). KCPL would form a holding company,
Great Plains Energy, Inc., with three subsidiaries: KCPL which engaged in the
generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to approximately
467,000 customers located in western Missouri and eastern Kansas; Great Plains
Power, Inc. which developed competitive generation for the wholesale market;
KLT, an unregulated subsidiary with investments in energy-related businesses.
Conditions of the reorganization were designed to protect KCPL customers. Also,
purchase supply agreements between KCPL and Great Plains Power or its affiliates
would require PSC approval and would be cost-based.
05/98: The Retail Electric Competition Task Force issued its Final Report
to the PSC with recommendations on issues including public interest programs,
stranded costs, taxes, reliability, and market power.
09/97: As part of the settlement for merger of Union Electric and Central
Illinois Public Service, Union Electric would implement a pilot program for
100 MW and about 5,000 customers. An Utilicorp (Aquila) 2-year pilot was limited
to 10 customers with a demand of at least 2.5 MW.
03/97: The PSC established the Retail Electric Competition Task Force to study
retail wheeling and related issues and prepare reports for the PSC. Four working
groups were established and were scheduled to submit reports no later than
April 1998.
1997: HCR 7 created a panel of legislators to study retail wheeling; a report
was scheduled to be due by January 1998.
