{"id":24120,"date":"2013-07-31T09:34:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2013-07-31T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:51:23","slug":"otter-tail-power-customers-still-paying-for-big-stone-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=24120","title":{"rendered":"Otter Tail Power Customers Still Paying For Big Stone II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OttertailLogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24164\" alt=\"OttertailLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OttertailLogo-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OttertailLogo-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OttertailLogo-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OttertailLogo.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jul 31. 2013) \u2013 North Dakota customers of Otter Tail Power will continue to foot the bill for a power plant that was never built.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Big Stone II electric power plant in northeastern South Dakota was abandoned in 2009 before construction began.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Public Service Commission in June 2010 approved a plan to have and Montana-Dakota Utilities and Otter Tail customers in North Dakota pay a share of Big Stone\u2019s $13.7 million development costs over three years. The PSC on Tuesday extended the payments eight months for Otter Tail customers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Commissioner Brian Kalk says the extended payments will go toward a transmission line that was separate from development costs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An average Otter Tail residential electric customer has been paying 62 cents more per month. MDU customers have paid about $1.50 extra each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Jul 31. 2013) \u2013 North Dakota customers of Otter Tail Power will continue to foot the bill for a power plant that was never built. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Big Stone II electric power plant in northeastern South Dakota was abandoned in 2009 before construction began. \u00a0 [&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-24120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120","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=24120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24171,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24120\/revisions\/24171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}