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But, the PSC said, electric utilities should consider using stronger lines and placing poles closer together in some areas; cell phone companies should look to generators to keep their towers operating; and residents should be better prepared to face...
Tags: Kentucky Public Service Commission, wind storms, Louisville, Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Ike, Ice storm, Disaster Accident, Electric power, Storm, Failure, Power outage
January�s ice storm and the wind storm a few months earlier did more than $1.2 billion in damage in Kentucky, the Public Service Commission says in a new report. The PSC acknowleges its figure doesn�t cover all the costs of the two storms that left hundreds...
Tags: ice storms, Kentucky Public Service Commission, winds storms, Frankfort, Ice storm, Types of insurance, Storm, Insurance, Disaster Accident, Weather, Environment, Atlantic hurricane season, Texas hurricanes, Hurricane Ike, Power outage
Democrat Robin Webb beat Republican Jack Ditty by 282 votes in a special election Tuesday for a vacant state Senate seat in northeastern Kentucky, according to unofficial results from county clerks in the district. The win enables Democrats to chip away...
Tags: Kentucky Senate, Senate District, special election, Dr. Jack Ditty, Robin Webb, Kentucky Public Service Commission, senate seat, 18th senate, Carter, hotly contested
The change already has been delayed three times, and commission spokesman Andrew Melnykovych said it is almost certain there will be another delay between now and 2012. The new code would be used in far western Kentucky, including the cities of Henderson,...
Tags: area code, W. Kentucky, Kentucky Public Service Commission
Forest Service projects are slated for Kentucky as part of the economic stimulus package and are aimed at helping the state recover from a deadly ice storm. The Forest Service says it will spend $2.5 million on three projects in Land Between the Lakes...
Tags: ice storm, Forest Service, Kentucky Public Service Commission
Lower natural gas costs are in store for Kentuckians, according to the state's Public Service Commission. The latest round of natural gas-cost adjustments approved by the PSC for Kentucky's five-largest gas distribution utilities shows an average decline...
Tags: natural gas, Kentucky Public Service Commission, gas cost, cubic feet, average decline, Columbia Gas of Ohio, Kentucky Post
A state emergency official says the number of people staying at shelters across Kentucky is still rising a week after an icy winter storm pounded the state. State Division of Emergency Management spokesman Buddy Rogers said Tuesday that some 7,844 people...
Tags: Kentucky Public Service Commission, Andrew Melnykovych
The brutal winter storm that caused havoc from Texas to Maine has paralyzed swaths of Kentucky, now working to cope with what it says is the worst power outage in the state's history. Andrew Melnykovych, spokesman for Kentucky's Public Service Commission,...
Tags: Kentucky Utilities, Kentucky's Public Service Commission, Central Kentucky, Kentucky Public Service Commission, Kentucky National Guard, ice storms, winter storms, million customers, Grayson County Emergency Management, power outage
Trees on roads also were a problem in many places in Eastern Kentucky...The highway district office in Jackson, in Breathitt County, reported getting help from local Kentucky National Guard members. Officials said most interstate highways in the state...
Tags: Eastern Kentucky, Kentucky Public Service Commission, Kentucky Utilities, Central Kentucky, Kentucky National Guard, power outage, ice storm, Danville, pump stations
Hearings on the rate increases requested by Louisville Gas and Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities Co. have been delayed by a month, but increases could still hit consumers in February. Two of the three commissioners on the Kentucky Public Service Commission...
Tags: Kentucky Utilities Co., Kentucky Public Service Commission