Minnesota AG says utilities mismanaged gas purchases in February

摘要

The Minnesota attorney general has asked state regulators to prevent natural gas utilities from charging ratepayers $379.8 million of the $800 million in increased natural gas costs that companies paid for during the price spike that occurred amid the historic cold snap in February. In a July 6 filing with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Attorney General Keith Ellison said their investigation showed that impacted gas utilities in the state failed to employ mitigation measures that could have slashed their natural gas purchases during the extreme winter weather in February, thus raising “$379.8 million in unreasonable and imprudently incurred gas costs.”