PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota regulators have turned down a request from a Sioux Falls-area rock crushing business to contract with Xcel Energy for power.
The state Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday denied the application from Sweetman Construction, doing business as Knife River.
Sweetman Construction/Knife River approached Xcel Energy and asked the investor-owned utility to supply electricity to a site where Knife River is expanding in rural Minnehaha County…