Meeting Name: PUC Agenda Meeting Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 10/7/2015 9:30 AM  
Meeting location: Large Hearing Room
Published agenda: Agenda Decisions Agenda Decisions Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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Attachments: View Case Record GR-14-482, View Case Record D-15-534, View Case Record M-13-867
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Details 2014-212 41. GR - General Rate* E111/GR-14-482 Dakota Electric Association In the Matter of the Application of Dakota Electric Association for Authority to Increase Rates for Electric Service in Minnesota. (PUC: Morrissey, Krishnan, Bahn; DOC: tbd) Note: Staff agrees with the recommendation of the Department of Commerce to approve DEA’s Compliance Filing pursuant to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s (Commission) June 8, 2015 Findings of Fact, Conclusions, and Order.  Action details
Details 2015-279 12. D - Depreciation* G011/D-15-534 Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation (MERC) In the Matter of the Petition of MERC for its Annual Review of Depreciation Rates for 2015. Should the Commission require MERC to complete a full depreciation study of all accounts by June 1, 2016 to coincide with the timing of its rate case or, should the Commission maintain the current five-year schedule and require a full depreciation study to be completed June 1, 2017? Should the Commission approve the Department’s recommendation (as agreed to by MERC) and approve MERC’s proposed service lives, salvage rates, and resulting depreciation rates effective January 1, 2015 including MERC’s proposal for an average service life of eight years, an Iowa L3 curve, to use the General Plant composite depreciation rate of 4.47 percent for new investments in Trailers, Account 392, and a negative 25 percent salvage rate for Transportation Equipment, Account 392.2? (PUC: Schwieger)  Action details
Details 2014-031 63. M - Miscellaneous** E002/M-13-867 Northern States Power Company 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 approve Xcel Energy’s proposal to move all Applicable Retail Rate-era community solar gardens to the 2017 Value-of-Solar Rate, as found in the Company’s September 25, 2023 compliance filing? (PUC: Strauss)  Action details