In Re the Application by the City of Rochester for an Adjustment of Its Service Area Boundaries With Peoples Cooperative Power Ass'n

SPECIAL TERM OPINION

KLAPHAKE, Judge.

FACTS

The City of Rochester (city) filed a petition with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), requesting a determination of the appropriate compensation to be paid to Peoples Cooperative Power Association (Peoples) for the city’s acquisition of Peoples’ assigned service area.

A contested case hearing was scheduled. Relator Dairyland Power Cooperative, which supplies wholesale power to Peoples and 27 of Dairyland’s member distribution cooperatives, petitioned to intervene in the proceedings. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) denied the petition…