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		<title><![CDATA[Minnesota Power Requests Rate Increase for Retail Customers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DULUTH, Minn. -- Minnesota Power, an ALLETE company (NYSE: ALE), today filed a rate adjustment request with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission MPUC, seeking an increase of $45 million in the electric rates charged to its retail customers.  With MPUC approval, interim rates would take effect July 1, 2008....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Approves Minnesota Power's Emission Reduction Plan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DULUTH, Minn. -- The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission MPUC has issued an Order approving Minnesota Power's $60 million voluntary emission reduction initiative. The Arrowhead Regional Emission Abatement Plan AREA is Minnesota Power's near-term effort to significantly reduce emissions from two of its energy generation facilities: the 225-megawatt Taconite Harbor Energy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dobson to get $30 million annually from USF.(Late News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dobson Communications Corp. announced that two of its subsidiaries  have been designated as eligible telecommunications carriers ETC in  rural areas of Alaska and Minnesota by the states' respective  regulatory commissions.      The carrier already has received written notification from the  Regulatory Commission...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Excelsior Files Petition with Minn. PUC for Mesaba Power Purchase Agreement]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5731/is_200601/ai_n23763998]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Minnetonka, Minn.-based Excelsior Energy filed its petition with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission seeking approval for a 603MW power purchase agreement with Exel Energy's Northern States Power unit.The agreement states that Northern States Power will buy electricity generated at Excelsior's yet-to-be-built Mesaba IGCC plant.The $2 billion coal-to-power plant is still...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EnerNex Awarded Contract to Asses Potential Wind Impact in MN]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[EnerNex Corporation recently announced it has been awarded a contract by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the potential operational impacts of wind generation on utility power systems in the state.  According to EnerNex, the study, which will focus on the potential impacts on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EnerNex Team Awarded Minnesota Statewide Wind Integration Study]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- EnerNex Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the potential operational impacts of wind generation on utility power systems in the state. EnerNex has enlisted the assistance of WindLogics and AREVA T&D...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Local court fines Qwest $25.9 million.(BUSINESS)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S.-based Qwest Communications has been ordered by a local court  to pay a penalty of $25.9 million, which the Minnesota Public Utilities  Commission had imposed on the company. However the company was spared  paying an extra $10 million as compensation to its competitors.    According...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Duluth, Minn.-based utility projects growing energy demand.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News    Sep. 17--Minnesota Power Co. expects regional electrical demand to  grow  at an average annual rate of 1.7 percent for the next decade,  according to a  report filed Wednesday with the Minnesota Public  Utilities Commission. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minnesota Power Forecasts Regional Energy Demand Growth]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DULUTH, Minn. -- Minnesota Power, a division of Duluth-based ALLETE, Inc. (NYSE:ALE) predicts energy demand by customers in its service territory will increase at an average annual rate of 1.7% over the next decade, according to a report filed with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission MPUC. The MPUC requires all...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Finds Qwest Entered Secret Agreements.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Oct. 22--The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Monday  unanimously  found that Qwest Communications International Inc.  illegally entered secret  agreements with competitors that may have  stifled competition in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Duluth News-Tribune, Minn., Business Briefs Column.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News    Oct. 7--Gold Cross Ambulance Service of Duluth recently was awarded  a three-year Department of Veterans Affairs contract to provide  ambulance service to Twin Ports-area veterans.    The contract means Gold Cross will make an estimated 300 patient  transports...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 1998 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inland Steel Signs Long-Term Contract with Minnesota Power.(Originated from Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 28--Minnesota Power and Inland Steel Company's Minorca  Mine in Virginia have reached agreement on an 11-year electrical  contract, the second long-term contract Minnesota Power has signed with  an Iron Range taconite producer in the last five months.       Formal announcement of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U S WEST Applauds Public Right-of-Way Order Issued by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--July 26, 1996--U S WEST Communications said it was pleased with the order released by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in which the Commission assesses the scope of its authority over the public right-of-way.In its order, the Commission declared that Minnesota law (Chapter 237) gives it "centralized, exclusive control...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 1996 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minnegasco must pay 1% royalty for name's goodwill.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5931/is_199410/ai_n23860276]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ruled on Sept 23, 1994, that Minnegasco must pay a 1% royalty on its appliance sales and service revenue. The September ruling is retroactive to February. Although the ruling is retroactive, rate payers will not be refunded any money. The 1% rate was deemed too...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 1994 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minnegasco must open its books to comply with PUC investigation. (Minnesota Public Utilities Commission)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has bowed to pressure from the Minnesota Alliance for Fair Competition MAC to investigate cross-subsidization by Minnegasco. The gas company, the Alliance charges, has used $12.4 million collected from ratepayers to subsidize its service and appliance sales operations. Minnegasco admits that some expenses were not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 1993 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minnegasco vs. contractors: slow process grinds forward. (Minnesota utility company) (Cover Story)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5931/is_199209/ai_n23859249]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is investigating Minnegasco Inc for unfair competition against heating, ventilation, and air conditioning hvac contractors. Minnegasco, in turn, has charged The Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News with attempting to restrict competition. Minnegasco Inc is being investigated for a number of violations such as illegally...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Not-so-funny home video: hidden camera nails utility rep trying to lure customer away from Minn. hvac contractor. (Minnegasco Inc., Sedgwick Heating & Air Conditioning Co.)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOT-SO-FUNNY HOME VIDEO    ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Dozens of contractors, utility employees,  government representatives, and Public Utility Commission members sat in  stunned silence.  They had just finished watching a video-tape of a  Minnegasco utility company employee offering special incentives to a  prospective...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 1991 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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