Monday is when Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners are expected to make a decision on the more than $1.2 billion expanded power project request of Public Service Company of Oklahoma. Not only are PSO leaders waiting but so are consumers.
They spent several hours last week listening to the presentation and testimony by PSO executives and attorneys in support of the request for approval of 8 different proposed projects. There was also opposition and some extended questioning by the state Attorney General’s office as well as the AARP, the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers.
For ratepayers, it is a wait to see the impact of the PSO projects on their monthly bills.
A proposed order from Corporation Commission Chair Kim David has yet to be filed with the commission but it received some discussion by her two fellow commissioners, Todd Hiett and Brian Bingman. In her presentation, she offered few details to the public and her proposed order was never made available for public viewing. But she noted at the time that the request by PSO faced a Sunday, May 10 deadline which was the end of a 240-day period as defined by OCC regulations.
Lawsuit impact
One detail of her proposed order was discussed publicly and referred to PSO’s legal challenge of a rezoning denial by Rogers County for the site of the utility’s Oologah power plant. PSO is seeking the use of Construction Work in Progress or CWIP for the addition of two new natural-gas powered generators as well as a BESS or Battery Energy Storage System.
“We have in the order that there’s no recovery until everything is resolved with Rogers County, and it’s only moving forward,” commented David. “There are a few other conditions in there on the CWIP. Once it goes into service, CWIP will no longer be able to be recovered, so they’ll have to come back in to change that because it’s no longer construction.”
The matter ended up in Rogers County District Court where PSO filed a lawsuit in December 2025 and again in January 2026.
The PSO application is formally known as Case No. PUD2025-000064, a proposed $1.255 billion addition of new power resources. serving 562,000 customers in eastern and southwestern Oklahoma, the Tulsa-based utility stated in filing the request in January its proposal “ensures PSO can meet Oklahoma’s growing energy needs through grid upgrades, advanced technologies, and smart tools that reduce outages, speed restoration, and provide accurate billing and real-time alerts.”
The Tulsa-based utility contended that without acquiring additional Southwest Power Pool accredited capacity resources, PSO’s summer capacity position will be deficient 10 MW in 2027, 470 MW in 2028 and 1,766 MW in 2029.
PSO made seven agreements comprised of three Purchase and Sale Agreements, three Purchase Power Agreements and one Capacity Purchase Agreement. The utility also seeks preapproval of one self-build gas resource project to provide 450 MW, bringing the total of all projects to 1,200 MW. The eight generation resources consist of three wind resources, three battery energy storage system resources, and two natural gas
resources.
Agenda
The following is the agenda for Monday’s meeting:
Time, Day, and Date: 10:00 a.m. Monday, May 11, 2026
Place: Concourse Theater, Suite C50, Will Rogers Memorial Office
Building, 2401 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma 73105
AGENDA
I. A. Call to order
B. Announcement concerning public notice
C. Determination of quorum
II. Consideration of and possible vote(s) on proposed or potential orders in cases on attached 24-hour signing agenda docket. The Commission may discuss and consider alterations, revisions, or amendments to the proposed or potential orders. (Votes may be taken on individual cases on the 24-hour signing agenda docket as a whole, or both by individual cases and the remaining docket.)
III. Discussion of and possible vote(s) on a proposed Final Order in Case No. PUD2025-000064, Application of Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) for an Order of the Commission Preapproving the Acquisition and Cost Recovery of Generation Facilities to Allow PSO to Meet its Obligations Pursuant to OAC 165:35-25-3(e), and/or any alterations, revisions, or amendments thereto proposed at the meeting
IV. Adjournment
BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF
OKLAHOMA 24 HR SIGNING AGENDA (PROPOSED ORDERS)
Case Number PUD2025-000075 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF OKLAHOMA (Applicant)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE
COMPANY OF OKLAHOMA, AN OKLAHOMA
CORPORATION, FOR AN ADJUSTMENT IN ITS RATES AND
CHARGES AND THE ELECTRIC SERVICE RULES,
REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE FOR
ELECTRIC SERVICE IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA AND TO
APPROVE VARIOUS COST RECOVERY MECHANISMS AND
TARIFFS
Order Title ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL
Case Number PUD2026-000012 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties ARKANSAS OKLAHOMA GAS CORPORATION (Applicant)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF ARKANSAS
OKLAHOMA GAS CORPORATION FOR AN ADJUSTMENT
OF ITS RATES, CHARGES, TARIFFS AND TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA,
AND REQUEST FOR WAIVER
Order Title PRELIMINARY ORDER
Case Number PUD2026-000018 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties ARGENBRIGHT, MARK (Applicant) |
OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (Respondent)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF MARK ARGENBRIGHT,
DIRECTOR OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION, OKLAHOMA
CORPORATION COMMISSION, FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO
REVIEW AND MONITOR APPLICATION OF THE FUEL
ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE OF OKLAHOMA GAS AND
ELECTRIC COMPANY FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2025
AND FOR A PRUDENCE REVIEW OF THE FUEL
PROCUREMENT PROCESSES AND COSTS OF OKLAHOMA
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY FOR THE CALENDAR
YEAR 2025
Order Title ORDER GRANTING PROTECTIVE
ORDER