8-K 1 f8k_rateorder.htm GPE & KCPL 8-K KCC RATE ORDER Unassociated Document
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
Current Report
 
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 4, 2006
 


 
Commission
File Number
 
 
Registrant, State of Incorporation,
Address and Telephone Number
 
I.R.S. Employer
Identification
Number
         
         
001-32206
 
GREAT PLAINS ENERGY INCORPORATED
 
43-1916803
   
(A Missouri Corporation)
   
   
1201 Walnut Street
   
   
Kansas City, Missouri 64106
   
   
(816) 556-2200
   
         
   
NOT APPLICABLE
   
(Former name or former address,
if changed since last report)
         
         
000-51873
 
KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
 
44-0308720
   
(A Missouri Corporation)
   
   
1201 Walnut Street
   
   
Kansas City, Missouri 64106
   
   
(816) 556-2200
   
         
   
NOT APPLICABLE
   
(Former name or former address,
if changed since last report)

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Great Plains Energy Incorporated (Great Plains Energy) and Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCP&L) (Registrants) are separately filing this combined Current Report on Form 8-K (Report). Information contained herein relating to an individual Registrant is furnished by such registrant on its own behalf. Each Registrant makes representations only as to information relating to itself.

Item 8.01
Other Events

On February 1, 2006, KCP&L filed a rate increase request with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), requesting an additional $42.3 million in annual revenues. KCP&L reached a negotiated settlement of its request with certain parties to the rate proceedings, and filed on September 29, 2006, a Stipulation and Agreement (Agreement) containing the settlement with the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC). The filing of the Agreement was reported in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Registrants on October 2, 2006. On December 4, 2006, the KCC issued its order (Order) approving the Agreement in its entirety. Any party may file a petition for reconsideration within 15 days of service of the order.

The Order approves a $29 million increase in annual revenues effective January 1, 2007, with $4 million of that amount resulting from additional depreciation to help maintain cash flow levels. The Order also approves various accounting and other matters, including but not limited to: (i) establishing for regulatory purposes annual pension cost for the period beginning January 1, 2007, of approximately $42.6 million ($19.6 million on a Kansas jurisdictional basis) through the creation of a regulatory asset or liability, as appropriate; (ii) establishing, effective January 1, 2006, a regulatory asset or liability as appropriate for costs arising from defined benefit plan settlements and curtailments which will be amortized over a five-year period beginning with the effective date of rates approved in KCP&L’s next rate case; (iii) setting at 8.5% the equity rate for the equity component of the allowance for funds used during construction rate calculation for Iatan 2; and (iv) the filing by KCP&L of an energy cost adjustment (ECA) clause in its next rate case, to be filed no later than March 1, 2007.





SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


 
GREAT PLAINS ENERGY INCORPORATED
   
 
/s/Terry Bassham
   
 
Terry Bassham
 
Executive Vice President- Finance & Strategic Development and Chief Financial Officer
 
 
KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
   
 
/s/Terry Bassham
   
 
Terry Bassham
 
Chief Financial Officer


 
Date: December 5, 2006