Curtis Tate
ReporterCurtis Tate is a reporter at WEKU. He spent four years at West Virginia Public Broadcasting and before that, 18 years as a reporter and copy editor for Gannett, Dow Jones and McClatchy. He has covered energy and the environment, transportation, travel, Congress and state government. He has won awards from the National Press Foundation and the New Jersey Press Association. Curtis is a Kentucky native and a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
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Members of the Kentucky Public Service Commission heard from Kentucky Power customers in Hazard on Thursday. -
All but two members of Kentucky’s U.S. House delegation voted for a bill to discourage the retirement of coal generation. The House of Representatives passed the Power Plant Reliability Act on Tuesday by a vote of 222 to 202. -
A Franklin District Court judge reduced bond for Jacob Lee Bard from $1 million to $100,000 and sent the case to a grand jury. -
Kentucky Power needs to repair or replace a cooling tower at its Mitchell plant in West Virginia. How much that might cost hasn’t been made public. -
Kentucky electricity customers could save $2.6 billion by 2050 by moving away from fossil fuels and toward more renewables and battery storage, according to the report. -
Jacob Lee Bard, 48, appeared in Franklin District Court on Thursday. Judge Chris Olds set Bard’s bond at $1 million. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 16 in Frankfort.
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Jacob Lee Bard, of Evansville, is charged with murder and assault after the shooting in Frankfort. Court records show previous charges of assault and threatening. -
Kentucky produced less than 5.5 million tons of coal from June to September, according to the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s coal dashboard. -
President and CEO Tony Campbell told the Kentucky Public Service Commission Monday that the cooperative applied for a $90 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. -
KU rates have risen more than 23% in the past five years, the groups say, while LG&E rates have gone up 20% in that time. Meanwhile, incomes for the lowest earners have increased 13% in Kentucky and 9% in Jefferson County.
