Beginning April 1st, Evergy Kansas Central residential customers will pay an average of $0.36 more per month to have electricity delivered to their homes. That amounts to $4.32 per year, based on an average monthly usage of 900 kWh.
Kansas law allows electric utilities regulated by the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) to recover costs associated with the transmission of electric power through a separate transmission delivery charge (TDC) on customer bills, without approval from the KCC.
The Commission acknowledged the effective date of the increase. While the KCC generally has jurisdiction over Evergy’s retail rates and terms of service, a regulated electric utility is statutorily authorized to adjust its Transmission Delivery Charge due to changes in cost under current law.
Evergy’s application requested $310 million in TDC revenues, an increase of $20.4 million from the prior TDC. That increases the transmission-related portion of a residential customer’s bill from $0.018810 per kWh to $0.019214 per kWh.
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