REPORTS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI _______________ Volume 24 MPSC 3d January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014 _______________ Morris Woodruff Reporter of Opinions _______________ JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (2017) PREFACE _________________ This volume of the Reports of the Public Service Commission of the State of Missouri contains selected Reports and Orders issued by this Commission during the period beginning January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014. It is published pursuant to the provisions of Section 386.170, et seq., Revised Statutes of Missouri, 2016. The syllabi or headnotes appended to the Reports and Orders are not a part of the findings and conclusions of the Commission, but are prepared for the purpose of facilitating reference to the opinions. In preparing the various syllabi for a particular case an effort has been made to include therein every point taken by the Commission essential to the decision. The Digest of Reports found at the end of this volume has been prepared to assist in the finding of cases. Each of the syllabi found at the beginning of the cases has been catalogued under specific topics which in turn have been classified under more general topics. Case citations, including page numbers, follow each syllabi contained in the Digest. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS __________________ Commission Organization ........................................................................ iv Table of cases reported .......................................................................... xiii Reports and Orders of the Commission ................................................... 1 Digest ................................................................................................... 236 iii THE COMMISSION ____________________ The following Commissioners served during all or part of the period covered by this volume DANIEL YVES HALL ROBERT S. KENNEY STEPHEN M. STOLL WILLIAM P. KENNEY SCOTT RUPP CURRENT COMMISSIONERS AS OF FEBRUARY, 2018 DANIEL YVES HALL RYAN SILVEY WILLIAM P. KENNEY SCOTT RUPP MAIDA COLEMAN _____________________ GENERAL COUNSEL SHELLEY BRUEGGEMANN SECRETARY MORRIS WOODRUFF ADMINISTRATION & REGULATORY POLICY LOYD WILSON COMMISSION STAFF DIRECTOR NATELLE DIETRICH iv STAFF COUNSEL KEVIN A. THOMPSON STEVEN DOTTHEIM Chief Staff Counsel Chief Deputy Counsel BOB BERLIN JEFF KEEVIL Deputy Counsel Deputy Counsel JACOB WESTEN NICOLE MERS Deputy Counsel Deputy Counsel MARK JOHNSON MARCELLA (FORCK) MUETH Senior Counsel Associate Counsel WHITNEY (HAMPTON) PAYNE ALEXANDRA “LEXI” KLAUS Associate Counsel Legal Counsel RON IRVING Legal Counsel JAMIE OTT SARAH KLIETHERMES SAMUEL RITCHIE RACHEL LEWIS ERIC DEARMONT MEGHAN (MCCLOWRY) WOOLERY JOHN BORGMEYER CULLY DALE JENNIFER HERNANDEZ ALEXANDER ANTAL AKAYLA JONES TIMOTHY OPITZ CASI ASLIN NATHAN WILLIAMS v GENERAL COUNSEL SHELLEY BRUEGGEMANN JENNIFER HEINTZ General Counsel Chief Litigation Counsel JOHN BORGMEYER RODNEY MASSMAN Litigation Counsel Assistant General Counsel CURTIS STOKES Litigation Counsel STEVEN REED ANNETTE SLACK JOSH HARDEN ADJUDICATION MORRIS WOODRUFF RON PRIDGIN Chief RLJ Deputy RLJ DANIEL JORDAN KIM BURTON Senior RLJ Senior RLJ MICHAEL BUSHMANN NANCY DIPPELL Senior RLJ Senior RLJ JOHN CLARK RLJ KENNARD JONES vi Reported Cases -A- Page In the Matter of the Application of Union Electric EA-2012-0281 79 Company d/b/a Ameren Missouri for Permission and Approval and a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Authorizing it to Construct, Install, Own, Operate, Maintain, and Otherwise Control and Manage a Utility Waste Landfill and Related Facilities At its Labadie Energy Center. In the Matter of the Application of Union Electric EA-2012-0281 98 Company, d/b/a Ameren Missouri for Permission and Approval and a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Authorizing it to Construct, Install, Own, Operate, Maintain, and Otherwise Control and Manage a Utility Waste Landfill and Related Facilities At its Labadie Energy Center. In the Matter of Ameren Missouri’s Application ET-2014-0350 133 for Authorization to Suspend Payment of Solar Rebates Noranda Aluminum, Inc., et al., Complainants, v. EC-2014-0224 114 Union Electric Company d/b/a Ameren Missouri, Respondent. Noranda Aluminum, Inc., et al., Complainants, v. EC-2014-0223 136 Union Electric Company Ameren Missouri, Respondent. In the Matter of the Application of Union Electric EO-2011-0128 233 Company for Authority to Continue the Transfer of Functional Control of Its Transmission System to the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. In the Matter of the Assessment Against the AO-2014-0359 77 Public Utilities in the State of Missouri for the Expenses of the Commission for the Fiscal Year Commencing July 1, 2014 vii -D- EX-2014-0205 In The Matter Of Dogwood Energy, LLC’s 1 Petition For Revision Of Commission Rule 4 CSR 240-3.105 I I -G- Missouri Landowners Alliance, Complainant, v. EC-2014-0251 67 Grain Belt Express Clean Line LLC, Grain Belt Express Holding LLC, Clean Line Energy Partners LLC, Respondent. I I -H- In the Matter of the Joint Application of Brandco WO-2014-0340, et 159 Investments, LLC and Hillcrest Utility Operating al. Company, Inc., for Hillcrest to Acquire Certain Water and Sewer Assets of Brandco and, Inc. Connection Therewith, Issue Indebtedness and Encumber Assets -K- In the Matter of KCP&L Greater Missouri EO-2014-0151 230 Operations Company’s Application for Authority to Establish a Renewable Energy Standard Rate Adjustment Mechanism In the Matter of Kansas City Power & Light EO-2014-0095 70 Company’s Filing for Approval of Demand-Side Programs and for Authority to Establish A Demand-Side Programs Investment Mechanism In the Matter of the Application of Kansas City EU-2014-0077 106 Power & Light Company and KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company for the Issuance Of an Accounting Authority Order relating to their Electrical Operations and for a Contingent Wavier Of the Notice Requirement of 4 CSR 240-4.020(2) viii -L- In the Matter of Lake Region Water & Sewer WR-2013-0461, et 35 Company’s Application to Implement a General al. Rate Increase in Water and Sewer Service In the Matter of Liberty Utilities (Midstates GR-2014-0152 206 Natural Gas) Corp. d/b/a Liberty Utilities’ Tariff Revisions Designed to Implement a General Rate Increase for Natural Gas Service in the Missouri Service Areas of the Company In the Matter of the Application of Lincoln County SR-2013-0321 9 Sewer & Water, LLC for Approval of a Rate Increase In the Matter of the Application of Lincoln County SR-2013-0321 101 Sewer and Water, LLC for Approval of a Rate Increase -M- In the Matter of the Joint Application of Missouri- WO-2014-0113 4 American Water Company and Emerald Pointe & Utility Company for Missouri-American Water Company to Acquire Certain Water and Sewer SO-2014-0116 Assets of the Emerald Pointe Utility Company in Connection Therewith, Certain Other Related Transactions In the Matter of the Application of Missouri Gas GA-2014-0232 32 Energy, a Division of Laclede Gas Company, for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Authorizing It to Construct, Install, Own, Operate, Control, Manage Maintain a Natural Gas Distribution System to Provide Gas Service in Lawrence County, Missouri, as an Expansion of Its Existing Certified Area In the Matter of Missouri-American Water WA-2015-0019 200 Company for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity Authorizing It to Install, Own, Acquire, Construct, Operate, Control, Manage and Maintain Water and Sewer Systems in Lincoln County, Missouri In the Matter of the Amount Assessed on TO-2014-0333 112 Companies to Fund the Missouri Universal Service Fund ix -P- In the Matter of the Application of Peaceful SR-2014-0153 150 Valley Service Company’s Request For Increase in Sewer Operating Revenues WR-2014-0154 In the Matter of the Application of Peaceful 150 Valley Service Company’s Request For Increase in Water Operating Revenues -S- GR-2014-0086 In the Matter of Summit Natural Gas of Missouri 73 Inc.’s Filing of Revised Tariffs to Increase Its Annual Revenues for Natural Gas Service In the Matter of Summit Natural Gas of Missouri GR-2014-0086 161 Inc.’s Filing of Revised Tariffs to Increase Its Annual Revenues for Natural Gas Service -T- In the Matter of the Application of TELEXFREE, DA-2014-0229 100 LLC for Registration to Provide Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol Service -W- th SM-2015-0014 In the Matter of the Joint Application of West 16 203 Street Sewer Company, W.P.C. Sewer Company, Village Water and Sewer Company, Inc. and Raccoon Creek Utility Operating Company, Inc., for Raccoon Creek to Acquire Certain Sewer Assets and, in Connection Therewith, Issue Indebtedness and Encumber Those Assets. x