{"id":326,"date":"2004-06-27T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2004-06-27T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T17:23:08","slug":"mge_feeding_at_the_trough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"MGE feeding at the trough&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madison&#8217;s Monopoly Utility, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgeenergy.com\/investor\/letter.htm\">MGE<\/a>, has according to this isthmus column [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/pdf\/062004\/uwmge.pdf\" TITLE=\"Isthmus opinion column by Chamond Liu June, 2004\">1.8MB PDF<\/a>] by Chamond Liu, served it&#8217;s local customers by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MGE&#8217;s electric rates are the highest in the state.\n<li>$348,634 in political contributions. (!)\n<li>$150,000 from MGE is itemized in an indictment against a Wisconsin state senator who sponsored no-bid legislation requiring the UW to &#8220;negotiate&#8221; with MGE for this power plant.\n<li>UW System President Katherine Lyall owned, as of January 2003, 14539 shares in Alliant Energy, the company responsible for building the MGE Plant.<\/ul>\n<p>  MGE should, simply on the basis of their lobbying and high rates, be excluded from any UW projects.   It really does not make sense for such a small utility to exist any longer&#8230;.. (at ratepayer expense).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foremadison.org\/\">Fore<\/a> (friends of responsible energy) Madison has quite a bit of information on this issue.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000280.html\">MGE&#8217;s high rates and routing cash through the Kansas Democratic Party (!) before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison&#8217;s Monopoly Utility, MGE, has according to this isthmus column [1.8MB PDF] by Chamond Liu, served it&#8217;s local customers by: MGE&#8217;s electric rates are the highest in the state. $348,634 in political contributions. (!) $150,000 from MGE is itemized in an indictment against a Wisconsin state senator who sponsored no-bid legislation requiring the UW to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}