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Agendas:
July 11, 2023, Agenda of Commission Meeting
January 9, 2024, Agenda of Commission Meeting

Minutes:
Minutes of the July 11, 2023 Commission Meeting
Minutes of the January 9, 2024 Commission Meeting

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• 07/12/23 - Order Suspending Operation of Proposed Rates; Order Assessing Filing Fee; Order Authorizing Consulting Contracts
• 01/10/24 - Order Granting Joint Motion for Approval of Settlement Stipulation
• 01/17/24 - Amended Order Granting Joint Motion for Approval of Settlement Stipulation

• 06/15/23 - NorthWestern Corporation dba NorthWestern Energy dba NorthWestern Energy's Application
  • Volume 1 Contents
    • Section 1
      • NorthWestern Energy's Letter regarding Request to Increase Its Electric Rates
      • Notice of Proposed Changes of Rates and Charges
      • Attestation
      • Report of Tariff Schedule Change
    • Section 2
      • Tariff Pages
        • Redline
    • Section 3
      • Comparison of Sales, Services and Revenues
    • Section 4
      • Statement A - Balance Sheet
      • Statement B - Income Statement
      • Statement C - Retained Earnings
      • Statement D - Cost of Plant
        • Schedule D-1 - Detailed plant accounts
          
        • Schedule D-2 - Plant addition and retirement for test period
          
        • Schedule D-3 - Working papers showing plant accounts on average basis for test period
          
        • Schedule D-4 - Plant account working papers for previous years
          
        • Schedule D-5 - Working papers on capitalizing interest and other overheads during construction
          
        • Schedule D-6 - Changes in intangible plant working papers
          
        • Schedule D-7 - Working papers on plant in service not used and useful
          
        • Schedule D-8 - Property records working papers
          
        • Schedule D-9 - Working papers for plant acquired for which regulatory approval has not been obtained
          
      • Statement E - Accumulated Depreciation
        
      • Schedule E-1 - Working papers on recorded changes to accumulated depreciation
        
      • Schedule E-2 - Working papers on depreciation and amortization method
        
      • Schedule E-3 - Working papers on allocation of overall accounts
        
      • Statement F - Working Capital
        
        • Schedule F-1 - Monthly balances for materials, supplies, fuel stocks and prepayments
          
        • Schedule F-2 - Monthly balances for two years immediately preceding test year
          
        • Schedule F-3 - Data used in computing working capital
          
      • Statement G - Rate of Return, Debt Capital, Preferred Stock Capital, Common Stock Capital
        
        • Schedule G-1 - Stock dividends, stock splits or changes in par or stated value
          
        • Schedule G-2 - Common stock information
          
        • Schedule G-3 - Reacquisition of bonds or preferred stock
          
        • Schedule G-4 - Earnings per share for claimed rate of return
          
      • Statement H - Operating and Maintenance Expenses and Schedule H-1 - Adjustments to operating and maintenance expenses
        
        • Schedule H-2 - Cost of power and gas
          • Schedule H-2 - Cost of power and gas Confidential (not available to the public)
        • Schedule H-3 - Working papers for listed expense accounts
          
          • Schedule H-3a - List of all claimed advertising expenses
            
        • Schedule H-4 - Working papers for interdepartmental transactions
          
        • Schedule H-5 - Labor, payroll taxes and 401K adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-6 - BGGS O&M adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-7 - Bad debt adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-8 - Aircraft adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-9 – Rate case expense
          
        • Schedule H-10 - Incentive adjustments
          
        • Schedule H-11 - Claims adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-12 - Interest synchronization
          
        • Schedule H-13 - Carrying charges adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-14 - Storms adjustment
          
        • Schedule H-15 - Vegetation Management adjustment
          
      • Statement I - Operating Revenues
        
        • Schedule I-1 - Revenue Adjustments
          
      • Statement J - Depreciation Expense
        
        • Schedule J-1 - Expense charged other than prescribed depreciation
          
      • Statement K - Income Taxes
        
        • Schedule K-1 - Working papers for federal income taxes
          
        • Schedule K-2 - Differences in book and tax depreciation
          
        • Schedule K-3 - Working papers for consolidated federal income tax
          
        • Schedule K-4 - Working papers for an allowance for current tax greater than tax calculated at consolidated rate
          
        • Schedule K-5 - Working papers for claimed allowances for state income taxes
          
      • Statement L - Other Taxes
        
        • Schedule L-1 - Working papers for adjusted taxes
          
      • Statement M - Overall Cost of Service
        
        • Schedule M-1 - Overall cost of service - adjustments to book figures
          
      • Statement N - Allocated Cost of Service - Adjusted
        
      • Statement N - Allocated Cost of Service - Per Books
        • Schedule N-1 - Income Tax Present Rates
          
        • Schedule N-2 - Income Taxes Equal ROR
          
        • Schedule N-3 - Functional Cost Summary
          
        • Schedule N-4 - Functional Labor Costs
          
        • Schedule N-5 - Class Allocators
          
        • Schedule N-6 - Functional Allocators
          
        • Schedule N-7 - Component Cost Summary
          
        • Schedule N-8 - Customer Component
          
      • Statement O - Comparison of Cost of Service
        
      • Schedule O-1 - Summary
        
      • Schedule O-2 - Residential
        
      • Schedule O-3 - Irrigation
        
      • Schedule O-4 - General Service
        
      • Schedule O-5 - Commercial Water Heating
        
      • Schedule O-6 - Commercial Space Heating & Cooling
        
      • Schedule O-7 - All Inclusive Commercial
        
      • Schedule O-8 - Commercial & Industrial
        
      • Schedule O-9 - Large Commercial & Industrial
        
      • Schedule O-10 - Municipal
        
      • Schedule O-11 - Controlled Off Peak
        
      • Schedule O-12 – Point to Point Distribution Only Rate 38
        
      • Statement P - Fuel Cost Adjustment Factor
        • Statement P - Fuel Cost Adjustment Factor Confidential (not available to the public)
          • Schedule P-1 – Yankton Sioux Tribe Discount Program
            
            • Schedule P-1 – Yankton Sioux Tribe Discount Program Confidential (not available to the public)
              
      • Statement Q - Description of Utility Operations
        
      • Statement R - Purchases from Affiliated Companies
  • Volume 2
    • Brian B. Bird's Prefiled Direct Testimony
    • Crystal D. Lail's Prefiled Direct Testimony
      • Exhibit CDL-1 - Debt to Book Capitalization
    • Adrien M. McKenzie's Prefiled Direct Testimony
      • Exhibit__AMM-1 - Qualifications of Adrien M. McKenzie
      • Exhibit__AMM-2 - Summary of Results
      • Exhibit__AMM-3 - Capital Structure
      • Exhibit__AMM-4 - Regulatory Mechanisms
      • Exhibit__AMM-5 - DCF Model – Utility Group
      • Exhibit__AMM-6 -BR & SV Growth Rate
      • Exhibit__AMM-7 - CAPM – Utility Group
      • Exhibit__AMM-8 - Empirical CAPM – Utility Group
      • Exhibit__AMM-9 - Risk Premium – Utility Group
      • Exhibit__AMM-10 - Expected Earnings – Utility Group
      • Exhibit__AMM-11 - Flotation Cost Study
      • Exhibit__AMM-12 - DDCF Model – Non-Utility Group
    • Jeffrey B. Berzina's Prefiled Direct Testimony
      • Exhibit__JBB-1 - Work Papers for Statements D & E Normalizing Adjustments
      • Exhibit__JBB-2 - Post-test Year Capital Investments
      • Exhibit__JBB-3 - Jurisdictional Allocation of Shared Administrative Costs
      • Exhibit__JBB-4 - Electric and Gas Allocation of Shared Administrative Costs
    • Aaron J. Bjorkman's Prefiled Direct Testimony
    • John J. Spanos' Prefiled Direct Testimony
      • 2022 Depreciation Study
    • Jeffrey J. Decker's Prefiled Direct Testimony
    • Paul M. Normand's Prefiled Direct Testimony
      • Exhibit__PMN-1 - Qualifications and Experience
      • Exhibit__PMN-2 - Class Cost of Service Description
      • Exhibit__PMN-3 - System Peak Demands
      • Exhibit__PMN-4 - Lighting Study
      • Exhibit__PMN-5 - Rate 34 Large Commercial & Industrial
        Standby Rate
    • Bleau J. LaFave's Prefiled Direct Testimony
    • Bradley S. Wenande's Prefiled Direct Testimony
      • Exhibit__BSW-1 - South Dakota Electric Service Territory Map
      • Exhibit__BSW-2 - Employee Locations Map
      • Exhibit__BSW-3 - Recordable and Lost Time Incident Rates
      • Exhibit__BSW-4 - Outage Performance and History
• 07/10/23 - PUC Staff's First Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 08/01/23 - PUC Staff's Second Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 08/17/23 - PUC Staff’s Third Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 08/23/23 - PUC Staff’s Fourth Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 09/13/23 - PUC Staff’s Fifth Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 10/04/23 - PUC Staff’s Sixth Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 10/20/23 - PUC Staff’s Seventh Set of Data Requests Certificate of Service
• 12/20/23 - NorthWestern Corporation dba NorthWestern Energy dba NorthWestern Energy and PUC Staff's Joint Motion for Approval of Settlement Stipulation
• Settlement Stipulation
• Exhibit 1 - Revised Sheet No. 33.1
• Exhibit 2 - Phase in Rate Plan Rider
• Exhibit 3 - Allocation of Rate Increase
• Exhibit 4 - Revised Tariffs
• Exhibit 5 - Customer Notice
• 12/20/23 - PUC Staff Memorandum Supporting Settlement Stipulation (Public)
  • PUC Staff Memorandum Supporting Settlement Stipulation Confidential (not available to the public)
  • Attachment A - Summary of Revenue Requirement Issues
  • Revenue Requirement
    • Exhibit__(PJS-1) Schedule 1 - SD Electric Revenue Requirement
    • Exhibit__(PJS-1) Schedule 2 - SD Electric Operating Income Statement Summary
    • Exhibit__(PJS-1) Schedule 3 - SD Electric Operating Income Statement with Known and Measurable Adjustments
    • Exhibit__(PJS-2) Schedule 1 - SD Electric Rate Base Summary
    • Exhibit__(PJS-2) Schedule 2 - SD Electric Rate Base with Known and Measurable Adjustments
    • Exhibit__(PJS-3) - Bad Debt Expense Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(PJS-4) - Interest Synchronization Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(PJS-5) - Cash Working Capital Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(PJS-6) - Advanced Tax Collections Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(PJS-7) - Working Capital Updates Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(BLC-1) Schedule 1 - Cost of Capital (Public)
      • Exhibit__(BLC-1) Schedule 1 - Cost of Capital Confidential (not available to the public)
    • Exhibit__(JG-1) - Depreciation for New Rates Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(BAM-1) - Association Dues Expense Adjustment  
    • Exhibit__(BAM-2) - Claims & Injury Compensation Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(BAM-3) - Vegetation Management Expense Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(BAM-4) - Steam Power Maintenance Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(BAM-5) - NERC Relay Substation Testing Expense Normalization Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(EJP-1) Schedule 1 - Rate Case Expense Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(EJP-1) Schedule 2 - Advertising Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(EJP-1) Schedule 3 - General Advertising Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(EJP-1) Schedule 4 - Post Test Year Additions/Retirements Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(EJP-1) Schedule 5 - Remove Huron 1 Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(EJP-1) Schedule 6 - Normalizing Additions/Retirements During Test Year Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(JMR-1) Schedule 1 - Labor Expense Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(JMR-1) Schedule 2 - Payroll Taxes Adjustment
    • Exhibit__(JMR-1) Schedule 3 - 401k Expense Adjustment
  • Rate Design
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 1 - Revenue Increase Comparison
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 2 - Rate Design by Customer Class
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-1 - Residential Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-2 - Irrigation Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-3 - Commercial Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-4 - Commercial & Industrial Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-5 - Municipal Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-6 - Reddy-Guard Lighting Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-7 - Highway, Street, & Area Lighting Rate Schedules
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 3-8 - Point to Point Rate Schedule
    • Exhibit__(BAM-6) Schedule 4 - Residential Service Bill Comparison
• 01/03/24 - NorthWestern Corporation dba NorthWestern Energy dba NorthWestern Energy's Filing regarding Settlement Stipulation Revised Exhibit 5
  • Revised Exhibit 5 - Customer Notice
• 01/08/24 - NorthWestern Corporation dba NorthWestern Energy dba NorthWestern Energy's Filing regarding Revised Exhibit 2
  • Revised Exhibit 2 - Phase in Rate Plan Rider (see 01/10/24 filing)
• 01/10/24 - NorthWestern Corporation dba NorthWestern Energy dba NorthWestern Energy's Filing regarding Revised Exhibit 2
  • Revised Exhibit 2 - Phase in Rate Plan Rider
• 01/16/24 - NorthWestern Corporation dba NorthWestern Energy's Letter regarding Revised Exhibit 4 (Partial)
  • Revised Exhibit 4 – Tariff Pages, Section 3, Sheet 25; Section 5, Sheet 3
• 01/17/24 - Docket Closed