Starting in 2012, the amount spent to influence administrative action by the Minnesota Public Utilities
Commission in cases of rate setting, power plant and power line siting, and granting of certificates of need is
reported separately from all other expenditures made by a principal to influence official actions. A report
of all other expenditures made by principals to influence legislative action, administrative action, and the
official actions of metropolitan governmental units is available by year at the at the updated list of
Principal Expenditures.