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Public Service Commission seeks staff, authority to overhaul electric planning amid tight supply forecasts
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The Missouri Public Service Commission told the House Budget Committee it needs 16 technical staff and about $1.4 million to revamp how investor-owned utilities plan future electric generation, citing rapidly rising load demands from new industrial projects and a decade-old planning framework.
The Missouri Public Service Commission told the House Budget Committee on Feb. 26 it needs 16 new professional staff and roughly $1.4 million in appropriation authority to overhaul the state’s integrated resource planning process.
Rich Germain, Public Service Commission staff, said the request supports a “power mode” proposal to change how Missouri evaluates utility generation and load needs. “When you have flat and declining load growth, your planning process isn't quite as important,” Germain said. “That has changed drastically.”
The commission said the shift is driven by recent large industrial and data-center projects, electrification and onshoring that together have increased peak load needs. Germain told committee members that projects now often require hundreds of megawatts and, in the…
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