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Councilors question $4.95 million MISO transmission fee; staff explain tariff-based, load-driven charges
Summary
Aldermen pressed staff for details on a nearly $5 million FY2026 transmission-schedule fee to MISO and The Energy Authority, learning the charge is tariff-driven and based on the city's load rather than on local generation.
Aldermen on March 11 asked city utility staff to explain a $4,950,000 transmission-schedule fee the city will pay for fiscal year 2026 to Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and The Energy Authority.
Alderman Notriano said he could not reconcile the figures in the backup materials and asked for the underlying contract or tariff information. "The contract's not in the backup details and I was wondering why it wasn't," he said.
A city staff member (spoken on the record as "Mister Brown") responded that the fees are mandatory tariff charges set through MISO and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and are assessed based…
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