ALP Utilities is an Alexandria, MN community owned municipal utility that provides residential and commercial electric and water services to the Alexandria area. ALP has been serving the Alexandria area for over 130 year with a commitment of affordability, reliability and service excellence. ALP is owned by those we serve and governed by local community members.
Business Office: 316 Fillmore Street, Alexandria MN 56308
Electric Meters: Residential 7,993; Commercial 1,757; Total 9,750
Water Meters: Residential 3,099; Commercial 978; Total 4,077
Employees: 36
Business Office: 316 Fillmore Street, Alexandria MN 56308
Electric Power Supply
ALP Utilities purchases about 32 percent of its power from Western Area Power Administration (WAPA). WAPA is one of four Federal power marketing administrations. It markets and transmits about 10,500 megawatts of power from 56 hydropower plants.
The other 68 percent is purchased from Missouri River Energy Services (MRES). MRES is a joint action agency of 61 municipal electric utilities in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. MRES offers its members an 79% carbon free wholesale power mix that includes hydro, wind, solar, nuclear and fossil generation sources. Additional generation is provided from smaller generating units that are located, owned, operated, and maintained by member utilities.
ALP Utilities Power Supply Mix
Reliability
ALP Utilities uses eReliability Tracker software to track reliability metrics. Development of this software was supported by a grant from APPA’s DEED (Demonstration of Energy and Efficiency Developments) program. This software is designed to provide excellent outage data collection and categorization services with good introductory coverage of the standard IEEE 1366 metrics for public power.
2022 Performance
| Index | ALP Utilities | Regional Average | National Average |
| SAIDI (minutes) | 6.94 | 85.01 | 140.45 |
| CAIDI (minutes) | 60.98 | 91.77 | 93.65 |
| SAIFI (# of interruptions) | 0.11 | 0.41 | 1.21 |
| MAIFI (# of interruptions) | NULL | 0.69 | 0.48 |
- excludes MEs (major event days)
SAIDI: Average interruption duration (in minutes) for customers served by the utility system during a specific time.
CAIDI: Average duration (in minutes) of an interruption experienced by customers during a specific period.
SAIFI: Average number of instances a customer on the utility system will experience an interruption during a specific time.
MAIFI: Average number of times a customer on the utility system will experience a momentary interruption.
Interconnection Requests
ALP Utilities facilitates interconnection to our 115kV transmission utilizing documentation guidelines from Otter Tail Power Company’s website at https://www.otpco.com/help-center/how-to-connect-to-our-power-grid/transmission-generators/.
Purchase Power Adjustment Clause
The Purchase Power Adjustment Clause allows ALP to automatically raise or lower its rates by $0.01/kWh increments in response to purchased power cost increases or decreases.