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There are several state agencies with oversight over utilities' operations, capital investments, and environmental impacts.
The Department of Commerce, Division of Energy Resources provides oversight of many energy-related programs and issues, including the Conservation Improvement Program, low income heating assistance and weatherization programs, and environmental analysis of energy-related projects.
The DER also administers the legislatively-enacted utility reporting requirements described below. Utilities can find necessary spreadsheets and instructions at the DER's webpages on Annual Reporting and the Conservation Improvement Program.
The Pollution Control Agency monitors environmental quality, offers technical and financial assistance and enforces environmental regulations.
The Public Utilities Commission regulates Minnesota's public utilities and has oversight over the construction and modification of large energy facilities, such as power plants, transmission lines, and pipelines. The Commission also keeps and updates the state's official Electric Utility Service Areas map which shows the service territories of all of Minnesota's electric utilities. (Note: Check the box in the map legend to display service area boundaries.)
The Capitol Letter is written by our government relations staff and focuses on the latest legislative information of interest to municipal utilities. This newsletter is regularly emailed to subscribers. If you are an MMUA Regular Member and would like to receive this newsletter, contact us!
The MMUA Tom Bovitz Memorial Scholarship provides funding for post-secondary education. Winners must be customers, or dependents of customers, of MMUA-member electric or gas utilities. The essay contest takes place in the spring of the year.
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