2.3a EMRUSR 02-11-2025RESOLUTION NO. 25-1
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 21613.164 ("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 111h day of February 2025.
John Dietz, Chair
Mark Hanson, General Manager
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COGENERATION AND SMALL POWER PRODUCTION TARIFF
TARIFF
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.
SCHEDULE 2.
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
2025 Average Retail
Utility Energy Rate
Residential
$0.1397 / kWh
Commercial Non -Demand
$0.1273 / kWh
Commercial Demand
$0.0824 / kWh
Large Industrial Demand
$0.0813 / kWh
Starting January 2024, a monthly Grid Access Fee will be applied to all interconnection
applications. Please refer to the Elk River Municipal Utilities Fee Schedule for the approved
amounts.
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SCHEDULE 2—WHOLESALE SUPPLY RATES
Wholesale Supply Rates: A "non -generating utility" must list the rates at which it purchases energy
and capacity. If the utility has more than one wholesale supplier, the rates listed are of that supplier
from which purchases may first be avoided.
Energy ($/kWh)
Capacity ($/kWh)
REC ($/kWh)
Summer Months (June -Sept)
0.0586
0
0
On Peak
0.0342
0
0
Off Peak
0.0455
0
0
All Hours
0
0
Winter Months (Oct -May)
0
0
On Peak
0.0502
0
0
Off Peak
0.0378
0
0
All Hours
0.0436
0
0
0
0
Annual (January -December)
0.0442
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 21613.1611, 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 otm�l�a_^olg.
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Interoperability Requirements (TIIR) as adopted by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on
January 22'2O2Ooapart ofDOCKET NO. E-SSS/C|-1S-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).
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