# APSC Docket 23-025-P — Hybar Special Rate Contract (production overview) The Hybar steel mini-mill Special Rate Contract docket — **NOT a data-center docket but the most recent prior Special Rate Contract precedent**. Originally filed 2023-05-24 for **Hybar LLC**, a steel mini-mill in the City of Osceola, Mississippi County, Arkansas. The Commission approved the original SRC on 2023-06-22 ([[Hybar Order No. 2 SRC Approval]]) and an amended SRC on 2025-07-22 ([[Hybar Order No. 5 Amended SRC Approval]]). Useful for the synthesis as a comparison case — what a non-data-center SRC looks like, what's redacted vs public, and how the Commission applies the public-interest standard. ## What's inside Three filings (curated): - [[Hybar Order No. 2 SRC Approval]] — Doc. 26, 2023-06-22. The original 8-page approval order. Approves the Hybar SRC "in the public interest" subject to the customer release from the City of Osceola. - [[Amended Hybar Special Rate Contract Application]] — Doc. 36, 2025-06-12. The 36-page REDACTED Amended Special Rate Contract Application. - [[Hybar Order No. 5 Amended SRC Approval]] — Doc. 48, 2025-07-22. The 8-page final order approving the Amended SRC. ## Key takeaways for the synthesis - **The Hybar SRC is between EAL and Hybar LLC** (steel mini-mill), in the City of Osceola, Mississippi County, Arkansas. The City of Osceola also figures in — a **community development grant agreement** between Hybar and the City of Osceola was filed in the docket (Doc 27, 2023-07-14). - **Hybar required annexation of the project area into the City of Osceola** (Doc 28, 2023-08-25) — paralleling the dynamic by which large industrial customers can require municipal involvement. - **Klucher's 2025 direct testimony** for the Amended SRC (Doc 38) — this is the testimony referenced in Klucher's MSK-1 exhibit in the 26-001-U Class Cost of Service Study, where he listed "Direct Testimony (2025). Docket No. 23-025-P (Entergy Arkansas, LLC). Approval of a Special Rate Contract." - The hearing was waived (Doc 47, 2025-07-17) — the Joint Motion to Waive Hearing was granted by [[Hybar Order No. 5 Amended SRC Approval|Order No. 5]] (Doc 48, 2025-07-22). - Commission witness: **Kurtis W. Castleberry** (Manager and Member, KCBerry Consulting, LLC, for EAL) and **[[Mark Burdette]]** (Senior Rate Case Analyst, for Staff in the original 2023 proceeding); **Regina L. Butler** (Director Electric Section, Staff) for the amended 2025 proceeding. ## Cross-references - [[psc/docket-23-025-p-hybar-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 25-055-P Altitude Capital / Google SRC]] — the data-center counterpart, current proceeding. - [[psc/docket-23-025-p-hybar-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 22-032-TF LPHLDS tariff]] — the related large-power tariff context. - [[Matthew S. Klucher]] — his Exhibit MSK-1 in 26-001-U lists this docket among prior testimony. ## Open questions / follow-ups - The HSPI Hybar SRC terms (Doc 8, original; Doc 39, amended) are sealed. - The 2023 community development grant agreement (Doc 27) and Osceola annexation ordinance (Doc 28) are public and could be retrieved for the synthesis if Hybar parallels become important.