NWE's recent rate increase, one point

Most of the Lee Papers in MT covered the story with some variation of this article written by Mike Dennison, which makes two very important points:

"Because of the addition of Colstrip 4 and the Mill Creek plant, NorthWestern's electric supply rates for homeowners are climbing 15.6 percent, to their highest level in more than two years. Residential customers had been paying about 5.4 cents per kilowatt hour and will now pay 6.2 cents per kwh for the supply.

Delivery costs for electricity are dropping slightly, as the result of a complex rate case that the Public Service Commission recently concluded. The PSC granted NorthWestern a slight increase over its July delivery rates, but the final outcome reduced a temporary rate increase enacted at the beginning of the rate case, thus the decrease in supply rates as of Saturday."

Just so we are clear, Colstrip and Mill Creek are increasing rates for Montana Consumers...