{"id":141276,"date":"2018-03-22T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=141276"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:07:48","slug":"public-input-sessions-otter-tail-power-proposed-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=141276","title":{"rendered":"Public input sessions, Otter Tail Power proposed rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19298\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ottertail1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ottertail1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ottertail1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ottertail1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Otter Tail Power Company customers have been informed in a flyer in their recent bill that\u00a0 Jamestown is included in the North Dakota Public Service Commission&#8217;s holding of two public input sessions on April 3 and 5 concerning \u00a0a request from Otter Tail Power Co. to increase its rates for electric service.<\/p>\n<p>The public input sessions are accessed through interactive television with several locations in North Dakota starting at 5-p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The April 3 Jamestown location is at the James Valley Career and Technology Center in classroom \u201cA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second session will be at noon on April 5th, utilizing a web conferencing system.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, those interested \u00a0can join from anywhere using a computer with a camera and internet access. A telephone option is also available.<\/p>\n<p>The Otter Tail\u00a0 proposed increase is $13.14 million annually over the present rates, or an 8.7% overall increase.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, by the Public Service Commission, rates would increase for residential customers by an average of about $11.50 a month.<\/p>\n<p>The typical business customer\u2019s bill would increase by approximately $22 a month.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the web conference, visit www.psc.nd.gov.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Otter Tail Power Company customers have been informed in a flyer in their recent bill that\u00a0 Jamestown is included in the North Dakota Public Service Commission&#8217;s holding of two public input sessions on April 3 and 5 concerning \u00a0a request from Otter Tail Power Co. to increase its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141390,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141276\/revisions\/141390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}