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Article: Rochester, Minn., sues power agency over expansion plan.
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- Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2005
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Byline: Bob Freund
Jul. 7--For the past 5 1/2 years, Rochester has been a special case for Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, the cooperative that supplies the city's electricity.
Instead of buying all of the juice it needs from SMMPA, as the agency's 17 other members do, Rochester has set a limit on the amount of electricity it buys from the agency.
The line has been drawn at 216 megawatts.
The city's utility system, Rochester Public Utilities, can choose to stop buying electricity from SMMPA for any consumption beyond 216 megawatts. RPU is on its own after that point.
The two electric companies now apparently will ...