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Votes at a glance: Public Service Commission, Jan. 16, 2025
Summary
A summary of formal motions and outcomes at the Public Service Commission open meeting on Jan. 16, 2025, including approvals of minutes, investigation/ proceeding notices, intervener compensation, a temporary waiver request, and the Maple Grove Solar CPCN.
The Public Service Commission took several procedural and substantive actions during its Jan. 16, 2025 open meeting. Below are recorded motions and outcomes as reflected in the meeting transcript. Where individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the transcript, the entry records the motion outcome as stated verbally in the meeting.
Votes at a glance
1) Approval of minutes - Motion: Approve the minutes of the open meeting of Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. - Outcome: Approved. The transcript records the motion, a second and the response “All in favor. Aye.” Individual roll-call votes are not recorded in the transcript.
2) Notices of investigation (agenda items 2–14) - Motion: Approve notices of investigation associated with agenda items 2 through 14. - Outcome: Approved. The transcript records a motion, a second and “All in favor. Aye.”
3) Notices of proceeding (agenda items 15–17) - Motion: Approve notices of proceeding associated with agenda items 15 through 17. - Outcome: Approved. The transcript records a motion, a second and “All in favor. Aye.”
4) Intervener compensation — Walnut Way (docket listed in the record as 1-IC-569) - Motion: Approve Walnut Way’s intervener compensation request in the amount referenced in the record (reported in the meeting as $23,020). - Outcome: Approved. The transcript records the motion, a second and “All in favor.”
5) Temporary waiver — Kern Electricals (docket in record 6690-EI-121) - Motion: Grant Kern Electricals’ request for a temporary waiver of a PSC administrative code individual-metering requirement for an existing building for 24 months from the date of the order, citing exceptional or unusual circumstances and imposing conditions listed in the draft order (including documentation and quarterly updates to WPSC). - Outcome: Approved. The transcript records the motion, a second and “All in favor. Aye.” The waiver was described as for 24 months and conditioned on documentation and quarterly status updates as specified in the order language noted in the record.
6) Maple Grove Solar (docket 5-CE-154) - Motion: Approve Maple Grove Solar’s CPCN consistent with the Commission discussion (see separate article for full coverage). - Outcome: Approved. The transcript records the motion, a second and “All in favor. Aye.”
Notes on how votes were recorded in the transcript - The meeting transcript records motions, seconds and a verbal “All in favor. Aye” for each listed item; individual roll-call votes or numeric tallies for named commissioners are not recorded in the excerpted transcript. Where the transcript reports only “All in favor” or similar, this summary records the motion as approved and notes that individual vote tallies were not specified in the meeting text.
Provenance: The procedural items and the temporary waiver/intervener compensation motions are recorded at the start of the transcript and before the Maple Grove Solar discussion; the minutes-approval, notices approvals, compensations and waiver are reflected in the transcript lines preceding the docket 5-CE-154 discussion and are reflected in the docket-motion statements and the verbal “All in favor” outcomes.
