Report and Order - Application of Evergy Metro, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri Metro and Evergy Missouri West, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri West for Approval of New and Modified Tariffs for Service to Large Load Customers

two-reviewer order approved mo-evergy-llps-eo-2025-0154

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Record created 2026-08-16, last updated 2026-08-16. Snapshot built September 14, 2026. JSON

State

MO

Kind

order

Status

approved

Agency

Missouri Public Service Commission

Utility

Evergy Metro, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri Metro; Evergy Missouri West, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri West

Citation

In re Evergy Metro, Inc. and Evergy Missouri West, Inc., Case No. EO-2025-0154 (Mo. P.S.C. Report and Order, issued Nov. 13, 2025, effective Dec. 13, 2025)

Docket

EO-2025-0154

Effective

2025-12-13

Threshold MW

75

Contract term (years)

12

Ramp (years)

5

Minimum take %

80

Summary

The Missouri PSC approved a Non-Unanimous Global Stipulation and Agreement setting Evergy's Large Load Power Service (LLPS) tariff at a 75 MW eligibility threshold -- broader than SB4's 100 MW statutory minimum -- for customers in Evergy Missouri Metro and Evergy Missouri West territory. The order sets a 12-year minimum term plus up to a 5-year optional transitional ramp period, a Minimum Monthly Bill with demand charge set at 80 percent of Contract Capacity, two-year-of-billing collateral requirements, 36-month exit notice with Exit Fee/Early Termination Fee, and curtailment of LLPS customers under Evergy's existing Emergency Energy Conservation Plan absent essential-service status.

Exit terms

To terminate or change rate schedules before the end of the Term or Extension Term, a customer must give 36 months' written notice and pay an Exit Fee equal to the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the greater of the number of months remaining in the Term/Extension Term or 12 months; shorter notice triggers an additional Early Termination Fee equal to the Exit Fee plus two times the nominal Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months short of the 36-month notice requirement.

Collateral terms

At the time of executing the LLPS Service Agreement, a Schedule LLPS customer must provide collateral equal to two years of Minimum Monthly Bills (recomputed quarterly on a rolling 24-month load forecast); a customer may be exempted from 25-60 percent of the Collateral Requirement if it meets specified credit-rating and liquidity requirements; no interest accrues on collateral held by Evergy.

Curtailment terms

Under Evergy's Emergency Energy Conservation Plan (aligned Jan. 1, 2025, complying with NERC Standard EOP-011-1), LLPS customers are subject to curtailment unless deemed an essential service.

Cost allocation

Order finds the LLPS Proposal's terms 'ensure, to an acceptably high degree, that the rates paid by large load customers reflect their representative share of costs,' implementing Sec. 393.130.7.

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 (Evergy Missouri Metro / Evergy Missouri West Large Load Power Service tariffs) order two-reviewer

  “In the Matter of the Application of Evergy Metro, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri Metro and Evergy Missouri West, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri West for Approval of New and Modified Tariffs for Service to Large Load Customers ... Case No. EO-2025-0154 REPORT AND ORDER Issue Date: November 13, 2025 Effective Date: December 13, 2025”

  p.1 (caption, Issue Date/Effective Date)
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/859501
  Document was served/marked as Commission Exhibit 603 in the related Ameren docket ET-2025-0184; extracted via PyMuPDF from the 50-page PDF.

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 order two-reviewer

  “service under the proposed Schedule LLPS shall be for a minimum term that includes up to five years of an optional transitional load ramp period plus twelve years (the "Term"). ... The LLPS Proposal outlined in the Agreement incorporates a definite and clear eligibility threshold of 75 MW, that is even broader than the minimum 100 MW threshold set out in SB4.”

  p.12-13, paras. 20-21 (Term and MW threshold)
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/859501

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 order two-reviewer

  “the customer must provide written notice 36 months prior to the requested date of termination or schedule change. In such circumstance, the customer would be subject to an exit fee equal to the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months remaining in the Term or Extension Term, or for 12 months, whichever is greater (the "Exit Fee"). ... Demand Charge (with minimum monthly demand set at 80 percent of the Contract Capacity ("Minimum Demand")) ... a Schedule LLPS customer must provide collateral in an amount equal to two (2) years of Minimum Monthly Bills”

  p.13-15, paras. 24-26 (Exit/Early Termination Fee; Minimum Monthly Bill; Collateral)
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/859501

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 order two-reviewer

  “Under the Emergency Energy Conservation Plan, LLPS customers are subject to curtailment unless they are deemed an essential service.”

  p.30, para. 68 (curtailment / Emergency Energy Conservation Plan)
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/859501

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 (Evergy LLPS) -- Finding of Fact para. 24 order two-reviewer

  "One key provision is the requirement that in order to terminate or change rate schedules before the end of the Term or any Extension Term, the customer must provide written notice 36 months prior to the requested date of termination or schedule change. In such circumstance, the customer would be subject to an exit fee equal to the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months remaining in the Term or Extension Term, or for 12 months, whichever is greater (the ‘Exit Fee’). An additional fee would apply if the customer seeks to terminate with less than 36-months’ notice (the ‘Early Termination Fee’). In such case, the Early Termination Fee shall be equal to the Exit Fee plus two times the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months, less than the 36-months’ notice required for termination."

  PDF p.14 of 50 (printed p.13), Finding of Fact para. 24, citing Ex. B Non-Unanimous Global Stipulation and Agreement p.4
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/859501
  Grounds Evergy's exit terms from the primary order. Unlike Ameren, Evergy's Stipulation does not bifurcate a non-renewal notice from a termination notice -- a single 36-month notice governs both terminating service and changing rate schedules. MO GATE 2026-08-20: WRITE-BACK: existed only in the DB (atlas_sources id 87, reviewer 'atlas-steward', 2026-08-18). Re-fetched and re-verified this gate. NOTE (this gate's resolution of the 24-vs-36 discrepancy on the PSC's general overview page): psc.mo.gov's plain-language page says 24 months, which does NOT match Evergy's order -- but it exactly matches AMEREN's Stipulation Sec. 12, proven this gate. The page describes both utilities' tariffs together and is carrying Ameren's termination-notice figure; it is not evidence of a 24-month Evergy term. Recorded rather than deleted.

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 (Evergy Large Load Power Service) order two-reviewer

  “26. The LLPS Proposal outlined in the Agreement incorporates detailed collateral and security requirements. Those requirements include in part that: (i.) at the time of executing their LLPS Service Agreement, a Schedule LLPS customer must provide collateral in an amount equal to two (2) years of Minimum Monthly Bills, as calculated by Evergy (the “Collateral Requirement”); (ii.) any Collateral Requirement would be recomputed quarterly based upon the customer’s rolling twenty-four (24)-month load forecast; (iii.) an LLPS customer may be exempted from twenty-five (25) to sixty (60) percent of the Collateral Requirement if they meet specific credit rating and liquidity requirements; and (iv.) no interest will accrue on any collateral held by Evergy under the Collateral Requirement.”

  Findings of Fact ¶26, PDF pp.14-15 of 49
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/857331
  MO GATE 2026-08-20: D7 (VA D5 class). The instrument's collateral_terms asserted the quarterly recomputation on a rolling 24-month forecast, the 25-60 percent credit exemption band and the no-interest rule; none of the three appeared in any MO quote. All three are here, in one paragraph. (Sentence spans the p.14/p.15 break: footnote marker '24 Ex. B, Non-Unanimous Global Stipulation and Agreement, Pages 9-10.' plus the page number fall inside it in the raw text layer; verbatim once page furniture is stripped.)

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 (Evergy Large Load Power Service) order two-reviewer

  “68. Both EMW and EMW have an Emergency Energy Conservation Plan in their respective General Rules and Regulation, which were aligned on January 1, 2025, and comply with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation Standard EOP-011- 1. The plans define an emergency and highlight the major steps that will be taken during an emergency called the SPP Reliability Coordinator. Under the Emergency Energy Conservation Plan, LLPS customers are subject to curtailment unless they are deemed an essential service.”

  Findings of Fact ¶68, PDF p.30 of 49
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/857331
  MO GATE 2026-08-20: D7. curtailment_terms asserted 'aligned Jan. 1, 2025, complying with NERC Standard EOP-011-1'; neither 'aligned' nor 'EOP-011' nor 'NERC' appeared in any MO quote. Now sourced. Note the order's own typo, preserved: '<<Both EMW and EMW>>' where it means Evergy Missouri Metro and Evergy Missouri West. Note also the standard number breaks as 'EOP-011- 1' in the text layer.

• Report and Order, Case No. EO-2025-0154 (Evergy Large Load Power Service) order two-reviewer

  “As a package these terms and conditions ensure, to an acceptably high degree, that the rates paid by large load customers reflect their representative share of costs.”

  Findings of Fact ¶19, PDF p.12 of 49
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/857331
  MO GATE 2026-08-20: D7. cost_allocation presented this sentence as a direct quotation from the order, in quotation marks, with no evidence row anywhere in the corpus. It is verbatim at ¶19.

• Office of the Public Counsel Position Statements, Case No. EO-2025-0154 docket two-reviewer

  “Issue A: Should the Commission adopt Evergy's or Staff's conceptual tariff, rate structure, and pricing in order to comply with Mo. Rev. Stat. Section 393.130.7?”

  p.1, Issue A
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/850196
  Confirms case caption and docket number EO-2025-0154; a party filing (OPC position statement), not the final order itself -- used only to corroborate docket identity, not tariff terms.

• Docket Sheet - EO-2025-0154 - EFIS docket two-reviewer

  “Status Reopened (6/30/2026) ... Item No. Date Filed Type of Filing Title of Filing Filed on Behalf of Response to Previous Filings 229 2026-06-30 15:17 6/30/2026 3:17 PM Notice Notice of Withdrawal (Stiltner) Sierra Club (Other) 228 2026-03-13 12:55 3/13/2026 12:55 PM Notice Notice Closing Case Commission (Other) ... 225 2026-02-25 09:11 2/25/2026 9:11 AM Order Order Approving Tariffs Commission (Other)”

  Status field; Docket Filings table, Item Nos. 225, 227-229
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Case/Display/91385
  MAINTENANCE RE-READ 2026-08-20: raw curl fetch of the docket sheet. NEW EVIDENCE not previously on file: this docket was formally CLOSED 3/13/2026 (Notice Closing Case, Item 228) after tariffs were approved 2/25/2026 (Item 225), then shows a 'Reopened (6/30/2026)' status change coinciding with the same-day Sierra Club notice-of-withdrawal filing (Item 229, identical filer/date/title to the Ameren docket's final filing) -- likely a housekeeping reopen/re-close rather than a substantive reopening, but recorded as-is since the docket sheet's own status field is the primary fact. Returning 229/229 -- no filings after 6/30/2026, so NO new order/movement in this docket since the 8/16-8/19 collection window. MO GATE 2026-08-20: CONSTRUCTED TABLE QUOTE FIXED. The stored quote interleaved the EFIS filings table's data-label HTML ATTRIBUTE values ("Item No.", "Date Filed", "Filed on Behalf of") between the table's cell values. Those labels are CSS generated content (site.min.css: table.tableCollapse td::before{content:attr(data-label)}), rendered only at narrow viewports; they appear nowhere in the served bytes, so the quote could not reproduce on any raw fetch. Every FACT the row asserted re-confirmed against this gate's own curl fetch; quote re-cut from the page's own contiguous text (the hidden sortText span supplies the ISO datetime that precedes each printed date).

• Utility Tariffs for Large Load Customers | Missouri Public Service Commission government two-reviewer

  “Exit and Early Termination Fees. Large-load customers may terminate or change rate schedules before the end of the contract term if written notice is provided at least 24 months prior to the requested change taking effect. In those instances, the customer will be subject to an exit fee. If requesting to terminate with less than 24 months' notice, the customer is also subject to an early termination fee.”

  main body text
  https://psc.mo.gov/General/Utility_Tariffs_for_Large_Load_Customers
  This page's plain-language summary states a 24-month notice period, while the underlying Report and Order text (Document/Display/859501) states 36 months' notice for both Ameren and Evergy; this discrepancy is recorded as-is rather than resolved, since the rule requires recording what each document says. The page's link labeled 'Evergy Large Load Tariff' points to /CMSInternetData/Community%20Outreach/Evergy%20Large%20Load%20Tariff.pdf (the approved Evergy tariff document itself, referenced but not separately fetched/quoted here).

• Missouri PSC, Case No. EO-2025-0154, Report and Order (Evergy Large Load Power Service) government two-reviewer

  “Case No. EO-2025-0154 ... Issue Date: November 13, 2025 ... Effective Date: December 13, 2025 ... service under the proposed Schedule LLPS shall be for a minimum term that includes up to five years of an optional transitional load ramp period plus twelve years (the “Term”)... a definite and clear eligibility threshold of 75 MW, that is even broader than the minimum 100 MW threshold set out in SB4... the customer must provide written notice 36 months prior to the requested date of termination or schedule change. In such circumstance, the customer would be subject to an exit fee equal to the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months remaining in the Term or Extension Term, or for 12 months, whichever is greater (the “Exit Fee”)... at the time of executing their LLPS Service Agreement, a Schedule LLPS customer must provide collateral in an amount equal to two (2) years of Minimum Monthly Bills, as calculated by Evergy (the “Collateral Requirement”)”

  p.1 (caption/docket, effective date), p.12 (Term/ramp/MW threshold), p.13 (exit/early termination fees, 80% minimum demand), p.14 (collateral)
  https://efis.psc.mo.gov/Document/Display/857331
  Primary PSC order (49 pages), downloaded and text-extracted directly. MO GATE 2026-08-20: CROSS-DOCUMENT SPLICE FIXED. The row's closing segment read 'the Company will require ... collateral in an amount equal to two (2) years of Minimum Monthly Bills.' The string 'the Company will require' appears NOWHERE in EO-2025-0154 - it is AMEREN's wording (Stipulation ¶23 in ET-2025-0184 and Ameren tariff sheet Doc 859644), spliced into a quote attributed to the Evergy order. Replaced with the Evergy order's own ¶26 text.

• Missouri approves Kansas City utility data center rates, with Ameren close behind journalism two-reviewer

  “Missouri Public Service Commission staff and the Missouri Office of Public Counsel, an organization that advocates for small business and residential customers, did not support the order. In fact, the staff and OPC submitted a separate proposal that commission chairwoman Kayla Hahn said was too confusing and could cause large users to avoid locating in Missouri. “Staff’s proposal requires upwards of 25 different charges that a large user could be subject to paying,” she said. “The evidence showed us the vast amount of charges and uncertainty make it unclear if a large user would be paying too much, too little or more likely if a large user would forgo locating in Missouri altogether as even a sophisticated user would be unable to predict what its ultimate bill responsibility would be.””

  paras. 6-10
  https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-11-15/missouri-passes-new-rules-costs-data-centers-large-power-users
  Republished from Kansas Reflector (States Newsroom) on St. Louis Public Radio; byline Morgan Chilson. MO GATE 2026-08-20: Quote extended to the untouched passage. The claim it grounds joins two consecutive Hahn sentences with the reporter's attribution ('” she said. “') removed and undisclosed; only the first sentence had an evidence row. Both sentences are verbatim here.

• Missouri PSC Chairwoman Kayla Hahn, describing the alternative Staff/OPC proposal other

  “Staff's proposal requires upwards of 25 different charges that a large user could be subject to paying. The evidence showed us the vast amount of charges and uncertainty make it unclear if a large user would be paying too much, too little or more likely if a large user would forgo locating in Missouri altogether as even a sophisticated user would be unable to predict what its ultimate bill responsibility would be.”