Application of Minnegasco

OPINION

HUSPENI, Judge.

Relator, a public utility, challenges that portion of respondent’s order after reconsideration in which respondent declined to modify one element of a settlement of a rate case to give effect to a recent Minnesota Supreme Court decision. Because relator, at the time it entered into the settlement, reserved the right to have the supreme court decision applied, we reverse respondent’s order; because respondent has authority to withdraw its approval of the amended settlement, we remand.

FACTS

In relator Minnegasco’s 1993 rate case, respondent Minnesota Public Utilities…