Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001410636-25-000150
Chunk: 116

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 116
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, and a total increase in revenue over the 2027 to 2029 period of $111 million. The requested annualized incremental revenue is driven primarily by approximately $750 million of capital investments completed and planned by the California subsidiary through 2025 to 2028. If approved by the CPUC, the new rates would take effect on January 1, 2027. The application also requests approval of a Fixed Cost Recovery Account, which is intended to be a full decoupling mechanism that would allow the Company’s California subsidiary to recover authorized fixed costs, regardless of sales volume, while also providing incentives, via progressive conservation-oriented rate design, for customers to use water more efficiently. Independent of the pending rate case, California Senate Bill 473, which requires the CPUC to ensure variances between forecasted and actual sales do not result in material overcollections or undercollections by water corporations, has passed out of the California Senate and is currently awaiting action in the California Assembly Appropriations Committee.

On May 16, 2025, the Company’s Kentucky subsidiary filed a general rate case requesting approximately $27 million in annualized incremental revenues, excluding infrastructure surcharges of $10 million, which is based on a proposed return on equity of 10.75% and a proposed capital structure with a common equity component of 52.26% and a debt component of 47.74%. The requested annualized incremental revenue is being driven primarily by approximately $212 million of capital investments completed and planned by the Kentucky subsidiary from February 2025 through December 2026. As provided by statutory authority, the Kentucky subsidiary anticipates that it will put into effect proposed rates on an interim basis seven months after the filing of this case, or December 16, 2025, and the difference between the interim and final approved rates will be subject to refund. The request is subject to approval by the Kentucky Public Service Commission, and the general rate case is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2026.

On May 5, 2025, the Company’s West Virginia subsidiary filed a general rate case requesting approximately $48 million in aggregate annualized incremental revenues, excluding infrastructure surcharges of $13 million, which would include two step increases, with $33 million to be included in rates in March 2026, and $15 million to be included in rates in March 2027. The request is based on a proposed return on equity of 10.75% and a capital structure with an equity component of