Current Date/Time: 11/4/2024 5:22:49 PM
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ER-2023-0245
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Consumer Comment No. Date Filed Consumer Comments
P202301628 2/8/2023 8:41 AM I oppose to any increase in the electricity bill. These companies should have their own special fund to deal with the volatility of the market. Even when gas prices or oil prices go down, we still pay the same rate! No discounts. Don't they save that extra money? Are we getting a credit because the market went down? I don't think so. Stop playing their game. Please don't approve an increase in our electricity bill
P202301629 2/8/2023 8:48 AM I am opposed to any increase in the fuel adjustment clause. I fervently feel that there is ample profit in Evergy, if cost reductions were made. Every company can take a look within to trim costs and your company is certainly no exception.
P202301693 2/8/2023 10:27 AM I would encourage you to deny Evergy’s proposed increase in the fuel adjustment clause on Missouri residential customers that would go into effect on April 1st, 2023. Utility costs are already cost prohibitive for many customers, especially those on fixed incomes.
P202301695 2/8/2023 10:28 AM Senior citizens living on fixed income cannot keep up with these rate hikes. Aren’t people important? NO rate hike please
P202301699 2/8/2023 10:31 AM Please do not allow Evergy to charge its customers more. (Case number for filing ER-2023-0245). Evergy is a very profitable monopoly. We, their customers, have nowhere to turn when they raise our rates. I have to heat my home. Basic human needs should not be subject to the profit whims of a heartless corporation whose only goal is more money.
P202301704 2/8/2023 10:34 AM WE DO NOT NEED INCREASES ON ANY BILLS!! I am an Evergy customer in Blue Springs, Mo. and I love in a townhome where everything is electric. My bill was 190.00 a month for atleast 9 months of not longer without any adjustment to my billing, even though I am on their budget billing. (See attached)
P202301874 2/8/2023 1:50 PM I ask the Public Service Commission to reject Evergy's request to increase the fuel adjustment charge on our monthly electric bills. Evergy is a multi-billion dollar company. They take the risks of changing fuel costs in their business. They need to take steps to cinch their corporate belts a little tighter and not pass this expense onto customers who have no choice but to purchase their electricity from Evergy.
P202301877 2/8/2023 1:54 PM I have lived in the Kansas City Metro for 28 years. It is my understanding that Evergy has a monopoly on providing electricity to the Metro. Knowing this I have always been amazed that Evergy uses some of their revenues (our fees) to advertise on signs, television, radio etc. Every Royals or Chiefs broadcasts have Evergy advertising. Obviously Evergy wants to be seen as a big player among the Metro business community. (see attached)
P202301878 2/8/2023 1:59 PM I’d like to know at what point enough money is enough money for utility services. It seems to me you just keep raising the price and I receive very little from it. There is no customer service, it’s all online bot, self-service, punch this button, hit that button it’s not a real person who actually helps you. When my service is out, which happened frequently last year during the coldest weeks all anyone received was a standard response – (see attached)
P202301898 2/8/2023 4:02 PM I am protesting any increase to the FAC charge. I am already paying around 5.00 for that charge.
P202301900 2/8/2023 4:05 PM I am writing to oppose the request (see subject line) for an increase to the FAC. Since the merger with Westar, our bills and other usage taxes have risen greatly. I have had past business practices with Westar. (See attached)
P202301901 2/8/2023 4:11 PM (JP) "I am against this rate increase. Between all 3 utilities at my house went up this month. The companies go out & do all of these things & build all of this stuff and want the customers to pay for it. Why can't they do within their company to control their costs so there isn't an increase request every 6-8 months? There is no way people can continue to afford this."
P202301910 2/9/2023 10:00 AM See attached for comments.
P202301912 2/9/2023 10:05 AM See attached for comments
P202301932 2/9/2023 1:36 PM (jae) Please do not allow Evergy to implement the fuel adjustment clause.
P202301944 2/10/2023 9:49 AM To Whom It May Concern: Please do not allow Evergy to implement the fuel adjustment clause. Thank you, Laura New Kansas City, MO
P202301947 2/10/2023 11:24 AM We want to voice our displeasure over the outright greed shown by Evergy Missouri Metro with their proposed "Fuel Adjustment Clause" increase to their customers' energy use bills. Following three years of record profits and apparently no consideration for the pandemic-related financial damage suffered by thousands in their service area, it's full $peed ahead for a company that knows they have the only game in town and appears to have no inclination to do the right thing.
P202301957 2/11/2023 12:31 PM NO MORE !! They tell us to "Conserve" after every rate hike, he is PROOF thats a load of crap. he less we use, the more they increase our rates. Feb 2022 112.53 unit=127.97, Feb 2023 88.83unit=127.60 .LESS UNITS SAME DAMN PRICE !! Feed up and had enough. Every rate increase RAISES their bottom line ,which is the # they pull their 9.5% ROR from.
P202301972 2/14/2023 8:50 AM Evergy does not need more price increases. Our greedy utility companies are only getting more expensive, begging for price increases every year, multiple times a year, with absolutely zero additional benefits to their customers who have no other options. Evergy is abusing its monopoly by continually trying to squeeze more and more money out of regular people to the benefit of no one but its investors.
P202301973 2/14/2023 9:02 AM Please be aware of my strong opposition to Evergy's proposed price increase. This increase will have a disproportionate effect on Kansas City consumers and is an inequitable request given the volatility of the current market.
P202301980 2/16/2023 8:39 AM Electric bills are already straining family budgets, without their taking on another fee. That fee would bring a hike of more than $4.00 a month for customers to deal with. Inflation is straining budgets, and there seems to be no end in sight. Gas prices have come down, why should electric charges increase? I understand this is a charge assessed on the last part of 2022, but it seems harsh to assess it at this time when people are feeling a pain in their budgets already. Please reconsider.
P202301981 2/16/2023 8:42 AM No! Enough increases!!!
P202301984 2/16/2023 10:06 AM NO! ENOUGH WITH THE INCREASES!!!
P202301985 2/16/2023 10:08 AM Please be aware of my strong opposition to Evergy's proposed price increase. This increase will have a disproportionate effect on Kansas City consumers and is an inequitable request given the volatility of the current market.
P202302017 2/24/2023 10:04 AM I am 92 years old and each month all of my fixed expenses go up and up. It is difficult enough. Then this morning I read in the paper about free tickets being given to political figures for Chiefs games. I love the Chiefs but not it's not right at the expense of ratepayers and taxpayers. Please have your commission do something to stop this from happening.
P202302019 2/24/2023 10:53 AM see attached
P202302020 2/24/2023 10:57 AM see attached
P202302037 3/3/2023 9:18 AM I strongly oppose the increase of $4.45 per month of the energy charge proposed by the Evergy Company in the filing ER-2023-0245. (See attached)
P202302296 6/29/2023 3:05 PM This is unacceptable and will result in many residents myself included to move to another state. I was not. And raised here and now being forced to move. I expect from conversations with others that they will do the same. Missouri you are missing mark and this will cost you in lost tax revenue when residents leave