2025 Minnesota Statutes

216B.493 POSTORDER COMMISSION DUTIES.

Subdivision 1.Financing costs review.

Within 120 days after the date extraordinary event bonds are issued, a utility subject to a financing order must file with the commission the actual initial and ongoing financing costs, the final structure and pricing of the extraordinary event bonds, and the actual extraordinary event charge. The commission must review the prudence of the natural gas utility's actions to determine whether the actual financing costs were the lowest that could reasonably be achieved given the financing order's terms and market conditions prevailing at the time the extraordinary event bonds are issued.

Subd. 2.Enforcement.

If the commission determines that a utility's actions under this section are not prudent or are inconsistent with the financing order, the commission may apply remedies deemed appropriate for utility actions, provided that any remedy applied must not directly or indirectly: (1) reduce or impair the extraordinary event property approved in the financing order or impair the collection or recovery of extraordinary event charges and extraordinary event revenue; (2) reduce, impair, postpone, or terminate extraordinary event charges approved in the financing order until all principal, interest, and redemption premium, if any, payable on the extraordinary event bonds, all financing costs, and all amounts to be paid to an assignee or financing party under an ancillary agreement are paid in full; or (3) change the customers required to pay extraordinary event charges.

History:

1Sp2025 c 7 art 4 s 3