Veiwpoints: The Consumer Perspective
Confused about the Ameren-backed bill in #MOLEG?
Check out the consumer perspective on Missouri Viewpoints with Mike Ferguson.
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Public Service Commission Analysis of SB564
The PSC has issued a detailed analysis of the Ameren-backed bill that is currently being debated in the Missouri House of Representatives. The analysis points out many problems with the bill, particularly with the proposed accounting mechanism which would make Missouri the first and only state in the country to provide this bonus type of profit calculator. Download the detailed report below.
Staff Analysis SB 564 perfected final with matrix appendix Version 2
Call to action — Lending
Black applicants in St. Louis metro area were 2.5 times as likely to be denied a home mortgage as white applicants. CCM Board Prez Jackie Hutchinson emphasized that lack of lending in predominately black neighborhoods is at a generational low. #MoConsumers
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https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2018/02/16/in-st-louis-black-mortgage-applicants-are-25-times-more-likely-to-be-denied
SB564: The FACTS
The Consumers Council of Missouri would like to offer the residential consumer perspective of Senate Bill 564.
Tax cuts spur KCP&L rate update case.
While KCP&L is proposing a rate increase, CCM is calling for a decrease: calling on state officials to evaluate how the tax cuts might be rolled into utility costs
http://www.newspressnow.com/news/business/tax-cuts-spur-kcp-l-rate-update-case/article_bebbab39-1e1e-5c80-b028-a5fe5eedcb17.html
Senate Bill 564
The Missouri Senate has been up all night trying to ram through Senate Bill 564 .Some facts about SB 564 as it stands today…
SB 564 a bill that would dramatically raise household electric rates by up to 20%. The so-called “rate caps” are phony and will not protect consumers.
SB 564 would mandate a retroactive accounting method for bonus electric rate increases (PISA). This PISA method that has been rejected by the MO PSC, and has not been allowed in any state jurisdiction in the nation!
SB 564 is opposed by small consumers and large industrial electric customers.  But any percentage impact would be much, much, greater upon normal residential households.. . since the legislation also includes a subsidy for the biggest customers, at the expense of normal residential households.
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