PSC agrees to $99K fine for Electric City Power

 GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The Public Service Commission has agreed to a
reduced fine for the utility arm of the city of Great Falls for failing to buy renew
able energy credits in 2010.
   The Great Falls Tribune (http://bit.ly/yughhz ) reports City Manager Greg
Doy on informed the board of directors of Electric City Power of the $99,120 fine at
 a meeting Monday. Doyon says the money will probably be taken from other city
funds. ECP was $5.4 million in the red as of Jan. 31 and is losing customers.
   The PSC had initially proposed a $132,230 fine for violating a law that
requires competitive electricity suppliers to buy a minimum of 10 percent of their
retail sales of electrical energy from renewable sources.
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