LEXINGTON, Ky. — There has been a lot of severe weather in Kentucky this year. Metro Louisville was 11 inches over its average snowfall this past winter, according to NOAA.

In April, a stalled low-pressure system brought severe flooding to much of Kentuckiana, with Utica, Indiana, among the hardest hit areas.

And this summer and early fall, much of the Commonwealth was in a drought. Farmers felt the impact through corn and soybeans that didn't grow to their full potential.

"The weather impact is definite, definitely real. And it impacts our system," Daniel Lowry said, a spokesperson for LG&E and KU.

Kentucky's largest utility companies are asking the Kentucky Public Service Commission to raise people's electric and natural gas rates to help pay for "system enhancements" to reinforce th

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