{"id":86694,"date":"2015-11-05T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86694"},"modified":"2015-11-05T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T21:39:29","slug":"psc-grants-mdu-gas-rate-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86694","title":{"rendered":"PSC grants MDU gas rate boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s Public Service Commission has approved a rate increase for natural gas used by customers of Montana-Dakota Utilities Company. The three-member panel on Wednesday granted the increase that will raise $2.6 million a year more than current rates. The Bismarck-based utility originally sought a 3.4 percent overall rate increase, which would have raised $4.3 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>Because the final increase is smaller than the interim increase, the average MDU natural gas customers will receive a refund of about $7 as a credit on their February bill. The average customer has been paying an additional $2.40 monthly under the interim increase, and the final increase will be $2.03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s Public Service Commission has approved a rate increase for natural gas used by customers of Montana-Dakota Utilities Company. The three-member panel on Wednesday granted the increase that will raise $2.6 million a year more than current rates. The Bismarck-based utility originally sought a 3.4 [&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-86694","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\/86694","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=86694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86697,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86694\/revisions\/86697"}],"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=86694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}