HAVEN, Kan. — The Haven City Council will meet Monday evening where they will go over the Kansas Power Pool surcharge.
The surcharge is being implemented to replace cash reserves of the power pool after they were depleted during the extremely cold weather. At the last meeting, the council heard from Mark Chesney who told the council that the cost to the pool from the cold weather was around $18 million. With the city of Haven representing about 13.5% of the pool the city’s cost is around $275,000.
Rather than pass the cost along to KPP members, the board voted to place a storm surcharge of $.01/kWh to replenish KPP cash reserves. Chesney says it will take about two years for the charge to replenish the cash reserves.
For the month of February the total charged to the city is around $9,000. Passing that onto its customers would amount to that $.01 per kWh that the KPP wants. The proposal must gain approval by the council during tonight's meeting which begins at 7 p.m. via Zoom.
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