New KY energy planner would be exempt from open records law under advancing bill

By: Liam Niemeyer

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: March 11, 2026

Words: 1,418

Last Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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A taxpayer-funded commission that the legislature is looking to for advice on energy policy would be exempt from Kentucky’s Open Records Act under a bill that a Senate committee approved Wednesday.

Senate Bill 100, sponsored by Sen Robby Mills, R-Henderson, would shield records and correspondence of the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission, or EPIC, which the Republican-controlled legislature created in 2024 to review plans to retire fossil fuel-fired power plants.

The bill …

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