{"id":64962,"date":"2015-02-09T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64962"},"modified":"2015-02-09T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:53:58","slug":"mdu-requesting-natural-gas-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64962","title":{"rendered":"MDU requesting natural gas rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/psc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64963\" alt=\"psc\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/psc.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. is asking North Dakota regulators to approve a natural gas rate increase.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MDU is seeking a 3.4 percent overall rate increase, which would raise $4.3 million a year more than current rates. If approved by the Public Service Commission, it would increase the monthly bill of residential customers by an average of about $3.50.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The utility says it needs the rate increase to cover the cost of increased investment in natural gas facilities. MDU&#8217;s natural gas investment in the state is projected to be $212 million by the end of the year, up 15 percent from last year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MDU serves about 105,000 natural gas customers in 74 North Dakota communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. is asking North Dakota regulators to approve a natural gas rate increase. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MDU is seeking a 3.4 percent overall rate increase, which would raise $4.3 million a year more than current rates. If approved by the Public Service Commission, it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64962","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=64962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64964,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64962\/revisions\/64964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}