Scope
South Dakota Public Utilities Commission Docket EL24-028 is reviewing Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.'s request, filed 5 August 2024, for approval of an electric service agreement under Rate 45 with Leola Data Center LLC, which MDU's filing letter says provides for the sale of all electric power required by the data center to be located near MDU's Leola 115kV substation. The docket page showed the docket as pending on 5 October 2026, with MDU supplemental filings dated 18 September 2026 and a confidential data-request response dated 2 October 2026.
- Geographic scope
- Montana-Dakota Utilities service to the Leola site, South Dakota
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Regulator or commission
- Issuing authority
- South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
Dates
- Adopted
- No adoption day is recorded
- Effective
- Not in effect (open proceeding)
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 5 August 2024
- Last checked
- 5 October 2026
- Proceeding
- SD PUC Docket EL24-028
Summary
Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. asked the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission on 5 August 2024 to approve an electric service agreement under its Rate 45 with Leola Data Center LLC for a data center near MDU's Leola substation. The docket remained pending on 5 October 2026; MDU made supplemental filings on 18 September 2026 and, per the docket list, filed confidential responses to Staff's fourth data requests on 2 October 2026 after the related provider-assignment docket (EL24-027) closed. No Commission decision on the agreement is recorded.
What this does not establish
- This is an open proceeding on a utility request, not a Commission approval; any order will be its own record.
- The agreement and its terms are filed confidentially; only the public filing letter was read.
- The customer-specific agreement does not change the general Rate 45 schedule recorded separately.
Unresolved questions
- Whether and on what terms the Commission will approve the agreement.
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.
- Related, not a replacement SD PUC EL24-027: electric provider assigned for the Leola data center (In effect)
Sources
https://puc.sd.gov/commission/dockets/electric/2024/EL24-028/LTR080524.pdf
- SD PUC docket page EL24-028 proceeding status (Pending; filings through 09/18/26)