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gradually relinquishing its right to buy half of the electricity from the Milton R. Young station, which is generated by burning coal. Minnkota will snap up the coal power and use it to meet growing electric demands from its own customers, regulatory filings say.
• The new power line "will provide a more direct path" for electricity from the Young station to serve Minnkota's customers, according to an analysis of the changes by the U.S. Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service.
• The changes will also "facilitate the development of additional wind generation in North Dakota by Minnesota Power for delivery to eastern Minnesota," the analysis

says.
• Clark said the new Minnkota line is the biggest power-line project undertaken in North Dakota since the development of several coal-fueled electric power plants in western North Dakota in the 1970s.
• Commissioner Kevin Cramer said the power-line swap will boost Minnesota Power's ability to transmit wind-generated electricity from North Dakota to

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