{"id":146150,"date":"2018-05-31T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=146150"},"modified":"2018-05-31T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T12:54:47","slug":"psc-hearing-mdu-rate-increase-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=146150","title":{"rendered":"PSC hearing, MDU rate increase proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27820\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MDU-logo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MDU-logo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MDU-logo-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MDU-logo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. is asking North Dakota regulators for a 3.3 percent increase in its natural gas rates. The request would raise a typical residential customer&#8217;s natural gas bill by about $1.82 a month.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota&#8217;s Public Service Commission on Wednesday began a three-day hearing on the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>MDU&#8217;s proposed natural gas increase would raise $3.6 million in additional revenues for the Bismarck-based company each year. MDU says it needs additional money to operate and maintain its natural gas pipeline system.<\/p>\n<p>The Minot Air Force Base, AARP, and PSC staff are questioning the need for the rate increase.<\/p>\n<p>The utility has about 109,000 North Dakota customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. is asking North Dakota regulators for a 3.3 percent increase in its natural gas rates. The request would raise a typical residential customer&#8217;s natural gas bill by about $1.82 a month. North Dakota&#8217;s Public Service Commission on Wednesday began a three-day hearing on [&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-146150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146151,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146150\/revisions\/146151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}