Scope
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. North Dakota electric Rate 45, High Density Contracted Demand Response, is available for electric service to data center-type facilities housing high density computer processing technology with an expected demand of at least 10,000 kW per month at a single delivery point and an expected minimum load factor of 85 percent. Service must be interruptible for up to 200 hours a year or as the electric service agreement provides; each customer signs an electric service agreement of three to five years filed with and approved by the Public Service Commission and is billed the incremental costs of serving it.
- Geographic scope
- Montana-Dakota Utilities electric service area, North Dakota
- Jurisdiction
- Utility territory
- Authority type
- Utility
- Issuing authority
- Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- 1 July 2023
- Scheduled expiration
- See completion condition
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- The rate schedule states no expiration; service reverts to the otherwise applicable rate if the customer stops meeting the requirements.
- Source document
- The source page states no document date
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
Montana-Dakota Utilities offers North Dakota Rate 45 for data center-type facilities housing high density computer processing technology that expect at least 10,000 kW of monthly demand and an 85 percent load factor. Service is interruptible for up to 200 hours a year, requires a three-to-five-year electric service agreement approved by the Public Service Commission, and bills the customer the incremental costs of service. The current sheets state service rendered on and after 1 July 2023.
What this does not establish
- The Commission order approving Rate 45 in Case PU-22-337 (27 October 2022) is an image-only PDF and was not read; no adoption day is stored.
- The current sheets cite Case PU-22-194 (the 2022 electric rate case) and state service on and after 1 July 2023; whether earlier Rate 45 sheets took effect before that day was not determined.
- Individual electric service agreements under Rate 45, and Montana-Dakota Utilities rate cases pending in 2026, were not reviewed.
- The rate schedule applies within Montana-Dakota Utilities North Dakota service area only.
Unresolved questions
None recorded.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- No related action is recorded.
Sources
https://www.montana-dakota.com/wp-content/uploads/PDFs/Rates-Tariffs/NorthDakota/Electric/ND_Electric45.pdf
- North Dakota Public Service Commission, Case PU-22-337 (High Density Contracted Demand Response) Commission case in which Rate 45 was filed and an order entered on 27 October 2022 (order not read)