purposes only. Any decisions related to ratepayer recovery will be addressed in future proceedings.
5. Each utility bears the burden of proof that the costs described in paragraph 4: (1) would not have been incurred but for the 2021 Winter Weather Event, and (2) are just, reasonable, and necessary to provide utility services during this extraordinary event. Once this 2021 Winter Weather Event is over, and after all costs have been accumulated and recorded, each jurisdictional utility is directed to file a compliance report in this Docket detailing the extent of such costs incurred, and present a plan to minimize the financial impacts of this event on ratepayers over a reasonable time frame.
THEREFORE, THE COMMISSION ORDERS:
A. All jurisdictional natural gas and electric utilities are directed to coordinate efforts and take all reasonably feasible, lawful, and appropriate actions to ensure adequate delivery of natural gas and electricity to interconnected, non-jurisdictional utilities in Kansas.
B. Jurisdictional natural gas and electric utilities are ordered to do all things possible and necessary to ensure natural gas and electricity utility services continue to be provided to their customers in the State.
C. Every electric and natural gas distribution utility that incurs extraordinary costs associated with ensuring its customers or the customers of interconnected Kansas utilities that are non-jurisdictional to the Commission continue to receive utility service during this unprecedented cold weather event is authorized to defer those costs to a regulatory asset account.
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