In Re Petition by the City of Rochester

OPINION

AMUNDSON, Judge.

Relator City of Rochester filed a petition with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (Commission), requesting the city’s municipal utility be allowed to extend electric service to street lights located within respondent People’s Cooperative Power Association’s (Association) assigned service area. The city argued it should be allowed to provide service to the street lights pursuant to a provision within the Public Utilities Act which allows a utility to serve its “own utility property and facilities.” Minn. Stat. § 216B.42, subd. 2 (1990). The city also claimed a…