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Kentucky AG: Utility settlement will lower electric rates

The utility companies proposed in a meeting with the state commission in November to increase rates by $331 million. The settlement cuts that by about 34 percent over two years, Cameron’s office said in a media release. Ratepayers will still see increases, but they will be smaller than what the utilities proposed, according to the AG’s office. Cameron, a Republican, said the settlement may also lengthen the life of three coal-fired generating units at two power plants, Mill Creek in Louisville and the E.W. Brown Generating Station in Harrodsburg. All three aging units are slated to be retired in the next decade, the utility said.

Kentucky s GOP legislature grabs the wheel from Democratic governor

When Kentuckians elected Andy Beshear in 2019, they created a recipe for partisan conflict between a legislature with a recent, ultra-Republican majority and a governor from a greatly diminished Democratic Party. In the recently completed legislative session, the governorship itself was diminished. Legislators took some powers from the governor, gave a few to Republicans who hold other statewide offices, and put on the 2022 ballot a constitutional amendment to let the legislature call itself into session for 12 extra days a year and extend its 30- and 60-day sessions past the current deadlines of March 30 and April 15. Reacting to Beshear’s anti-pandemic orders, legislators also tried to rein in the governor’s emergency powers. Franklin Circuit Court blocked that legislation, much as the state Supreme Court had rejected legal challenges to the orders. But legislators also reduced the authority of the Frankfort court, allowing constitutional challenges to be filed anywhere in th

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