Bill Text: MN HF2370 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Underground high-voltage transmission line cost allocation regulated.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-20 - Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance [HF2370 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2011-HF2370-Introduced.html
1.2relating to energy; regulating cost allocation for certain underground high-voltage
1.3transmission lines;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter
1.4216B.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. [216B.1614] UNDERGROUND TRANSMISSION LINE; COST
1.7ALLOCATION.
1.8(a) The commission may not order the incremental cost of constructing a
1.9high-voltage transmission line underground to be allocated to electric ratepayers residing
1.10outside the city in which the high-voltage transmission line is proposed to be constructed
1.11unless the commission determines that:
1.12(1) underground construction is the least-cost option;
1.13(2) underground construction is proposed by the utility that proposes the high-voltage
1.14transmission line; or
1.15(3) safety concerns require underground construction.
1.16(b) For the purposes of this section:
1.17(1) "high-voltage transmission line" means a transmission line of 100 kilovolts or
1.18more and greater than 1,500 feet in length; and
1.19(2) "incremental cost" means the additional cost of constructing a high-voltage
1.20transmission line underground compared with constructing it above ground.
1.21EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment
1.22and applies to all proceedings in which the commission has not issued a final order
1.23before January 1, 2012.
1.3transmission lines;proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter
1.4216B.
1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. [216B.1614] UNDERGROUND TRANSMISSION LINE; COST
1.7ALLOCATION.
1.8(a) The commission may not order the incremental cost of constructing a
1.9high-voltage transmission line underground to be allocated to electric ratepayers residing
1.10outside the city in which the high-voltage transmission line is proposed to be constructed
1.11unless the commission determines that:
1.12(1) underground construction is the least-cost option;
1.13(2) underground construction is proposed by the utility that proposes the high-voltage
1.14transmission line; or
1.15(3) safety concerns require underground construction.
1.16(b) For the purposes of this section:
1.17(1) "high-voltage transmission line" means a transmission line of 100 kilovolts or
1.18more and greater than 1,500 feet in length; and
1.19(2) "incremental cost" means the additional cost of constructing a high-voltage
1.20transmission line underground compared with constructing it above ground.
1.21EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment
1.22and applies to all proceedings in which the commission has not issued a final order
1.23before January 1, 2012.
