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MidAmerican Energy Customers to get Refund & Rate Reduction

MidAmerican Energy Customers to get Refund & Rate Reduction

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MidAmerican Energy customers in South Dakota will get a refund and rate reduction as the result of a settlement with the Public Utilities Commission.
Commissioner Kristie Fiegen says it is tied to the federal tax reduction law passed in 2017…

Fiegen says the refund is one time, the rate reduction will be permanent…

This is the final refund from an investor owned utility due to the tax law.
Fiegen says their staff had to work through nine cases….

Refunds from those companies totaled about twenty-nine million dollars, with another ten million dollars in rate reductions.

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