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THESE ARE INTERIM RATES AND THEY WILL BE REFUNDED. Sheet 5-1 carries a 7.14% Interim Rate Surcharge under docket E002/GR-24-320, in force since 1 January 2025. The Commission decided the case on 18 June 2026 at well under half what Xcel asked for, and the written order was due 31 July 2026. The rate book republished on 29 July 2026 still carries the surcharge, so this IS what is billed today - and it is known to be too high. A one-time credit with interest is owed, and neither its size nor its timing has been published. Treat any Minnesota figure here as provisional.
XCEL'S OWN STATIC PATH SERVES A 2019 ARCHIVE AT HTTP 200. staticfiles/xe/Regulatory/Regulatory PDFs/rates/MN/Me_Section_5.pdf is a real, complete, official PDF whose newest sheet took effect 1 October 2017 - customer charge $8.00 rather than $6.00, summer energy 10.815c rather than 13.069c. The customer charge fell and the energy charge rose, so neither document fails a plausibility check. The current book is on Salesforce and is reachable only from the MINNESOTA view of the rate books page, which requires a GeographicLocation cookie.
NO ALL-IN SUMMARY EXISTS FOR MINNESOTA. Xcel publishes a pre-computed Electric Rates Summary for its Colorado company and nothing equivalent here, so unlike Colorado these figures are assembled rather than checked against the utility's own arithmetic. The closest thing is the statutory interim-rate customer notice, whose 'Current' column corroborates the base rates but whose 'Proposed' columns are Xcel's rejected ask.
THE FUEL CLAUSE IS FILED A YEAR AT A TIME. Sheet 5-91.1 publishes twelve monthly residential factors for the whole of 2026, from 1.568c in January to 2.973c in June - so each month here carries its own filed fuel figure rather than one month's value stretched across the year. That also means this encoding is specific to calendar 2026: the 2027 table is filed around February 2027 and does not yet exist.
TWO PERCENTAGES, ONE BASE, NO COMPOUNDING. The interim surcharge (7.14%) and the Renewable Energy Standard rider (2.463%) both apply to customer and energy charges only. Each rider's sheet carries an explicit does-not-apply list naming the other, so they sit side by side rather than stacking.
THE CONSERVATION RIDER PUBLISHES TWO NUMBERS AND ONLY ONE IS BILLED. The CIP Adjustment Factor is 0.1397c/kWh. Thirty-five lines further on, under a nearly identical heading, the Conservation Cost Recovery Charge is 0.4955c/kWh - but that is the amount ALREADY INSIDE base rates, published so that exempt large customers can be credited for it. Adding it would overcharge by about $5 a month.
THREE RIDERS ARE ON FILE AT EXACTLY ZERO and are encoded as zero rather than omitted: the State Energy Policy Rate, Mercury Cost Recovery and Environmental Improvement riders. Encoding them as zero means a future non-zero filing shows up as a change rather than as a new component nobody was watching.
THE AFFORDABILITY PROGRAM SURCHARGE IS A REAL BILL LINE AND IS NOT ON THE RATE SHEET. $2.12 a month - $0.65 base, $0.47 low usage affordability credit, $0.82 PowerON, $0.18 medical affordability - filed on Sheet 5-95 and named nowhere in the residential schedule's own rider list. Customers receiving LIHEAP assistance are exempt.
NOT ENCODED: the Affordability Credit Rider's discounts (a $15/month senior and disabled credit, PowerON, Medical Affordability, and a 35% low usage credit), all eligibility-gated; Residential Time of Day service (A02/A04); and the electric vehicle schedules.
EXCLUDED: city franchise fees, which the Surcharge Rider leaves to each community's ordinance, and Minnesota sales tax at 6.875% plus local options. Note that residential electricity is exempt from November through April only where electricity is the primary heat source, so the standard customer is taxed year-round and the space-heating customer is not.
THE LATE PAYMENT CHARGE IN THE FILED BOOK IS ALREADY OUT OF DATE. Sheet 5-1.1 still says 1.5% a month; the June 2026 order cut it to 0.45% and waived it for low-income customers. The written order has not yet flowed into the tariff. Not encoded either way - it is a penalty, not a rate - but it is a live example of this book lagging its own regulator.
THE WINTER ENERGY CHARGE IS 42% LOWER, and only the winter one. October through May bills at 6.537c against the standard 11.364c; June through September both pay the same 13.069c. So the discount applies exactly when an electrically heated house uses most of its energy, which is the point of it.
This is a COLUMN on the same rate sheet, not a separate schedule - same rate codes A00/A01/A03, same riders, same interim surcharge. Eligibility turns on electricity being the primary heat source.
Such a customer is also exempt from Minnesota sales tax from November through April, which the standard customer is not. Not modelled - tax is excluded throughout this catalogue.
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