Integrated resource plan
Submitted to MN Public Utilities Commission
Otter Tail Power Company filed its sixth integrated resource plan with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on June 30, 2005. The Company's updated plan identifies the potential resources that the company intends to use to meet customer needs during the 2006-2020 time frame.
The filing is required by law only in Minnesota. Otter Tail Power Company plans for its entire system as a single entity, however, and provides copies of the plan to the regulatory commissions in North Dakota and South Dakota as well.
This plan includes significant investment in new renewable energy, a new state-of-the-art generating plant, and opportunities for customers to reduce their energy use through conservation.
State agencies and interested parties are reviewing the resource plan filed in 2005 and the supplements filed in October 2006 and January 2008. The PUC had approved the wind portion of the 2006 supplement, which called for adding 160 megawatts of wind energy to our resource mix. The 2008 supplement calls for 280 megawatts of wind energy. We expect a decision on the most recently filled plan in 2008.
These are Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files:
- Cover letter (3.25 MB)
- Title page (55K)
- Table of contents (35K)
- Preface (22K)
- Plan cross-reference (56K)
- Resource plan summary (165K)
- Forecast and capability (176K)
- Existing resources (155K)
- Plan development (56K)
- Potential resources (86K)
- Preferred resource plan (106K)
- Renewable energy objective (45K)
- Contingencies (103K)
- Environmental issues (81K)
- Minnesota electric utility annual report (47MB)
- Supplement filed in 2006 (192K)
- Supplement filed in 2008 (298K)
