08/19/2026
🚨 KENTUCKY POWER WANTS THE AUDITOR TO HAVE LESS HISTORY?
This one deserves your attention.
The Kentucky PSC has ordered an independent management audit of Kentucky Power.
But during discussions over the RFP that will be used to select that auditor, Kentucky Power asked PSC Staff to remove the “case history” from the draft RFP citing concern that it could create bias in the consultant.
Think about that.
This management audit didn’t appear out of thin air.
In the rate case that led to the audit, the PSC examined serious questions involving reliability, vegetation-management spending, management decisions, and whether customers were seeing measurable improvements from the money being spent.
The Commission found that reliability metrics had trended downward and questioned the measurable improvement associated with substantial increases in vegetation-management spending over the years.
And now Kentucky Power is concerned that providing the prospective auditor with the case history could create bias?
An independent auditor absolutely should approach Kentucky Power objectively.
But objectivity does not require ignorance.
The history matters because it helps explain WHY THE AUDIT WAS ORDERED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
If a doctor orders tests because of a patient’s medical history, you don’t make those tests more “independent” by removing the history.
You give them the facts and let them reach their own conclusions.
To be completely clear, Kentucky Power has NOT asked for documents to be deleted from the public PSC record. Their request concerns removing the case history from the draft RFP.
But ratepayers deserve an answer to one very simple question
If that history helped demonstrate the need for a management audit, why shouldn’t the people competing to perform that audit know the history?
Don’t tell the auditor what conclusion to reach.
Don’t prejudice the investigation.
But don’t sanitize the history either.
Give the independent auditor the facts.
Give them the records.
Then let them follow the evidence wherever it leads.
This audit belongs to the ratepayers who have been paying the bills and demanding answers.
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We cannot afford to stop paying attention now.
We deserve transparency.
We deserve accountability.
We deserve the truth.
