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Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board presents budget, cites $159.6M in Evergy rate-case savings
Summary
The Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board (CURB) presented its fee-funded budget and performance metrics to the committee, highlighted its role in major rate-case work (including a reported $159.6 million in savings related to Evergy proceedings), and announced leadership turnover.
Joseph Straub, newly appointed consumer counsel for the Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board (CURB), presented the board’s fee-funded budget and performance-based metrics to the committee and described CURB’s recent docket work, staffing and anticipated workload.
Straub told the committee he succeeded the prior consumer counsel and has been with CURB since 2019. He described CURB as the statutory agency that "represent[s] the interest of residential and small commercial rate payers" at the Kansas Corporation Commission. Straub said CURB intervenes in major rate cases and related dockets and frequently employs outside consultants for accounting and engineering expertise.
CURB’s budget presentation…
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