Kansas Gas and Electric Co. v. State Corporation Commission

Brazil, J.:

Kansas Gas and Electric Company (KG&E) and Beech Aircraft Corporation, The Coleman Company, Total Petroleum, Inc., LaFarge Corporation, and Texaco, Inc., (the industrial intervenors) appeal the Kansas Corporation Commission’s (KCC) decision finding fuel costs were imprudently incurred during outages at the Wolf Creek Generating Station (Wolf Creek) and ordering a $6.9 million refund with interest to KG&E’s customers. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

In September 1987, Wolf Creek embarked on a refueling outage scheduled to last 49 days. The refueling outage actually…