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Electricity Supply Conventions I Resources Minnesota River Station MMPA Plans to Locate The Minnesota River Station (MRS) is a 49 MW Generation Close to Load simple cycle dual fuel plant that entered service in 2001, and provides peaking power for the Distributed Generation Agency. The plant is located in and owned by With member demand increasing, MMPA the MMPA member community of Chaska, Min- is focusing on efficient projects that help nesota. The Agency has a long-term lease with MMPA manage risks related to energy pricing, the City of Chaska for the facility through 2031. transmission, and environmental regulation. Silver Lake Plant MMPA is planning to place Agency-owned MMPA's 20 year contract with Rochester Public natural gas fired distributed generation in its Utilities' (RPU's) coal-fired Silver Lake Plant, member communities. located in downtown Rochester, is nearing Distributed generation is electric generation completion. This 25 MW contract began in 1995 which connects to local distribution systems and expires in 2015. The Agency also has a rather than the high-voltage transmission system. contract to market the entire output of this By interconnecting locally, MMPA avoids plant, along with several other RPU resources, transmission interconnection uncertainties, to MISO. and increases the reliability of our member Purchases from Other Utilities communities' electric systems. The Agency also makes short- and medium- The first group of MMPA member communities term capacity purchases from other utilities to potentially host distributed generation when economic. These purchases help includes: Anoka, Chaska, and Shakopee. In MMPA manage the timing of long-term the spring of 2013, the Agency worked with Agency-owned resource additions. the Minnesota legislature to pass special legislation supporting the development of MMPA's distributed generation program. 2013 MMPA Annual Report 13