The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission has settled a number of gas and electric utility rate hike cases this year. Chairman Chris Nelson says they have a couple left on the docket….
The settlements approved by the Commission were less than the companies had asked for. Nelson says they are not necessarily looking for compromises…
Nelson says the agreements they reached with utilities won’t allow them to come back with another rate hike request for a while…
Most rate hike cases were based on increasing fixed costs for utilities rather than on energy costs.