Ratepayers of Public Service Company of Oklahoma will have to wait until Monday to learn whether regulators will give preapproval to the utility’s request for $1.2 billion in power generation expansion projects.
Corporation Commissioners spent time early Wednesday morning discussing the request following extended hearings last week and again this week in which there was testimony as well as opposition to the 8 different expanded energy power projects proposed by PSO.
Commission Chair Kim David opened the morning meeting by discussing a proposal final order.
“The 240-day deadline is Sunday, May 10th. So I did prepare a proposed final order. We distributed it last night,” she explained, adding that commissioners and “many people” were still “weeding their way through it.”
(Under Oklahoma’s new Construction Work in Progress law, the Corporation Commission was required to handle CWIP requests within 180 days rather than the standard 240 days prior to the law. While the CWIP law became effective in August 2025, a constitutional challenge was filed in March by Oklahoma Gas and Electric.)
Commissioner Todd Hiett said he had not had an opportunity to review what Commissioner David had proposed.
Details of the proposed order were not discussed publicly but Commissioner Hiett hinted at a Construction Work in Progress request made by PSO for its Oologah power plant in Rogers County.
“I feel like the language that has been prepared made an attempt and probably accomplished assuring that C-WIP would not be enacted until the permits are in place on the gas plant in Rogers County. So, I just won’t have questions on that. I just want to make sure it’s right.”
As Commissioners were warned in an earlier meeting, the request for two new natural gas generators and a BESS or Battery Energy Storage System at PSO’s Northeast project in Oologah was tied up in Rogers County District Court. PSO filed suit in December 2025 and again in January 2026 after Rogers County denied its rezoning request to allow the initiation of construction on the project.
“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.”
Commissioners decided to delay a decision until Monday.
OK Energy Today requested a copy of Commissioner David’s proposed order but was told it was being revised and would differ from what was discussed by commissioners.
“Since the eventual order will differ from the version discussed this morning, we do not believe it is appropriate to provide a copy of the draft order at this time,” stated a spokesman.
Sometime later Wednesday, the Corporation Commission announced a special meeting would be held Monday morning to handle the proposed matter.
The PSO application 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.
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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