Meeting Name: PUC Agenda Meeting Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/30/2020 9:15 AM  
Meeting location: Online via WebEx
Published agenda: Agenda Decisions Agenda Decisions Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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Details 2020-056 11. PR - Periodic Reports** E999/PR-19-9 Minnesota Power; Otter Tail Power; Xcel Energy In the Matter of Trade Secret Designations of 2019 Cogeneration and Small Power Production Reports. Should the Commission grant the Joint Commenters’ Petition for Rehearing or Reconsideration? (PUC: Rosier) The Commission has the authority to accept or decline a petition for reconsideration with or without a hearing or oral argument (Minnesota Rules 7829.3000, Subpart 6) In other words, a decision on a petition for reconsideration can be made without taking oral comments at the Commission meeting.  Action details
Details 2014-031 252. M - Miscellaneous** E002/M-13-867 Northern States Power Co. d/b/a Xcel Energy In the Matter of the Petition of Xcel Energy for Approval of its Proposed Community Solar Garden Program. Should the Commission reconsider its August 16, 2024 Order which denied the reconsideration of the its May 30, 2024 Order approving the Community Solar Garden Program Rate Transition Proposal with Modifications? (PUC: Brown-Huss) The Commission has the authority to accept or decline a petition for reconsideration with or without a hearing or oral argument (Minnesota Rules 7829.3000, Subpart 6). In other words, a decision on a petition for reconsideration can be made without taking oral comments at the Commission meeting.  Action details
Details 2020-041 13. CI - Commission Initiated Investigation** E999/CI-07-1199 All Electric Utilities E999/DI-19-406 In the Matter of Establishing an Updated 2020 Estimate of the Costs of Future Carbon Dioxide Regulation on Electricity Generation under Minn. Stat. § 216H.06. 1. What should the Commission establish as the likely range of costs for future CO2 regulation on electricity generation? 2. In what year should the costs begin to be applied? 3. Should the Commission modify how it has instructed utilities to model scenarios of CO2 regulatory and externality costs? (PUC: Stalpes)  Action details
Details 2020-043 14. D - DepreciationPULLED ** E017/D-19-547 Otter Tail Power Company In the Matter of Otter Tail Power Company’s Petition for Approval of its 2019 Annual Review of Depreciation Certification. 1. Should the Commission approve the proposed depreciation parameters and the resulting rates for Otter Tail Power Company’s annual depreciation update? 2. Should the proposed remaining lives of Hoot Lake Production Plant Units 2 & 3 and Hydraulic Production Plant be reduced by one year to better match depreciation accruals to plant retirement? (PUC: Hetherington)  Action details
Details 2020-064 15. GR - General Rate* E015/GR-19-442; Minnesota Power E015/M-20-429 In the Matter of the Application of Minnesota Power for Authority to Increase Rates for Electric Service in Minnesota. Should the Commission approve Minnesota Power’s interim rate refund plan? (PUC: Bonnett; DOC: Addonizio)  Action details