MINN. POWER & LIGHT v. MINN. PUB. SERV. COM'N

Nos. 51475, 51554, 51585 and 51760.

310 N.W.2d 686 (1981)

MINNESOTA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Petitioner, Appellant, v. MINNESOTA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Respondent. BUTLER TACONITE PROJECT, et al., Intervenors, Appellants, v. MINNESOTA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Respondent. HIBBING TACONITE CO., a joint venture, Appellant, v. MINNESOTA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Respondent. (Other Parties Involved in These Appeals are as Follows:) Potlach Corporation, Intervenor-Respondent, Office of Consumer Service, Respondent, Conwed Corporation, et al., Intervenors-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

October 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Briggs & Morgan, Samuel L. Hanson and Scott Davies, Minneapolis, James R. Habicht, Duluth, for Minnesota Power & Light Co.

Levitt, Palmer, Bowen, Rotman & Share, and Robert G. Share, Minneapolis, Steer, Strauss, White & Tobias and James J. Ryan, Cincinnati, Ohio, David A. Kuhn, Stuart H. Theis, Hanna Mining Company, Cleveland, Ohio, for Butler Taconite Project et al.

Mackall, Crounse & Moore and Robert S. Lee, Minneapolis, Pickands Mather & Co., and Frank Hartman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Cleveland, Ohio, for Hibbing Taconite Co.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Jean Heilman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Rodney Wilson and Kenneth Nickolai, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, for Minn. Public Service Comm.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Peter H. Grills and Alan I. Gilbert, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, for Office of Consumer Services.

Lindquist & Vennum and Richard A. Primuth, Minneapolis, for Potlatch Corp.

Wurst, Carroll & Pearson and James D. Larson, Minneapolis, for Conwed Corp. et al.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OTIS, Justice.

These consolidated appeals are from the order and judgment of the district court affirming the decision of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to grant an increase in electric rates to Minnesota Power and Light Company (MPL) for the 1978 test year.1

MPL is an investor-owned public utility engaged in the generation and sale of electric energy in central and northeast Minnesota...

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