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BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ELK RIVER MUNICIPAL UTILITIES
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE UPDATED COGENERATION AND SMALL POWER
PRODUCTION TARIFF FOR ELK RIVER MUNICIPAL UTILITIES
WHEREAS, the Rules Governing the Interconnection of Cogeneration and Small Power
Production Facilities ("Rules") with Elk River Municipal Utilities("ERMU") and Minnesota
Statutes Section 216B.164 ("Statute") require ERMU to file a Cogeneration and Small Power
Production Tariff with ERMU Commission annually; and
WHEREAS, the statute and the Rules require the information contained in schedules 1, 2 and 3
described in Exhibit A to this Resolution; and
WHERAS, these filings shall be maintained at ERMU offices and shall be made available for
public inspection during normal business hours.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Elk River Municipal Utilities Commission approves the
Cogeneration and Small Power Production Tariff attached as Exhibit A to this Resolution for
transactions following the date of adoption stated below.
This Resolution Passed and Adopted this 13th day of February 2024.
John Dietz, Chair
Mark Hanson, General Manager
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COGENERATION AND SMALL POWER PRODUCTION TARIFF
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Pursuant to its Rules Governing the Interconnection of Cogeneration and Small Power
Production Facilities, Elk River Municipal Utilities ("Utility") establishes and/or updates its
Cogeneration and Small Power Production Tariff ("Tariff") for billing and sales
transactions following the date of Tariff approval as follows.
The Tariff shall consist of the following three schedules.
SCHEDULE 1.
Calculation of average retail utility energy rates for each utility customer class.
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Rates at which Utility purchases energy and capacity from the wholesale supplier from
which purchases may first be avoided.
SCHEDULE 3.
Utility's adopted interconnection process, or "distributed generation tariff" adopted in
compliance with Minnesota Statutes Section 21613.1611, subd. 3(2), including standard
contract forms to be used with customers interconnecting qualifying facilities as well as
general technical interconnection and interoperability requirements.
SCHEDULE 1-AVERAGE RETAIL UTILITY ENERGY RATE
Average Retail Utility Energy Rate: Available to any Qualifying Facility of less than 40 kW
capacity that does not select either Roll Over Credits, Simultaneous Purchase and Sale Billing or
Time of Day rates.
Utility shall bill Qualifying Facilities for any excess of energy supplied by Utility above energy
supplied by the Qualifying Facility during each billing period according to Utility's applicable
rate schedule. Utility shall pay the customer for the energy generated by the Qualifying Facility
that exceeds that supplied by Utility during a billing period at the "average retail utility energy
rate." "Average retail utility energy rate" means, for any class of utility customer, the quotient
of the total annual class revenue from sales of electricity minus the annual revenue resulting
from fixed charges, divided by the annual class kilowatt-hour sales. Data from the most recent
12-month period available shall be used in the computation.
"Average retail utility energy rates" are as follows:
Customer Class
2024 Average Retail Utility
Energy Rate
Residential
$0.1431 /kWh
Commercial Non -Demand
$0.1321 /kWh
Commercial Demand
$0.0826/kWh
Large Industrial Demand
$0.0833 /kWh
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SCHEDULE 2 - WHOLESALE SUPPLY RATES
Wholesale Supply Rates: A "non -generating utility" must list the rates at which it
purchases energy and capacity. If the utility has more than one wholesale supplier, the
rates listed are of that supplier from which purchases may first be avoided.
Summer Months (June -Sept)
On Peal
Off Peak
All Hours
Winter Months (Oct -May)
On Peak
Off Peak
All Hours
Annual (January -December)
Energy ( $/kWh) Capacity ($/kWh] REC ($/kWh]
0.0535
0 0
0.0338
0 0
0.0425
0 0
0.0432
0 0
0.0345
0 0
0.0386
0 0
0.0400
0 0
SCHEDULE 3 - INTERCONNECTION PROCESS
Interconnection Process: In order to provide for coordinated interconnection of
customer -owned distributed energy resources and comply with Minnesota Statutes
Section 216B.1611, subd. 3(2), Utility has adopted the "Minnesota Municipal
Interconnection Process (M-MIP) 2022" as recognized by the Minnesota Municipal Utilities
Association Board of Directors at its February 9, 2022, meeting and made publicly
available at mmua.org.
General technical requirements may be found in the Minnesota Technical Interconnection
and Interoperability Requirements (TIIR) as adopted by the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission on January 22, 2020 as part of DOCKET NO. E-999/CI-16-521.
For utility -specific safety standards, required operating procedures for interconnected
operations, and the functions to be performed by any control and protective apparatus,
please contact Utility for its Technical Specifications Manual (TSM).