LANSING, November 17.  Nordic Electric, L.L.C. has moved 
a step closer to supplying electric service in Monroe, Michigan.  
Nordic has been granted a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity to serve direct access customers in Monroe, Michigan, 
the Michigan Public Service Commission announced today.  Under 
a settlement agreement approved by the MPSC on November 16, 1999, 
the Commission granted Nordic a certificate to provide 
competitive electric services in Monroe.   Nordic will not own 
or operate any transmission or distribution lines or facilities 
for delivering electricity.  Instead, the company will supply 
the power that will be delivered over Detroit Edison Company's 
transmission and distribution systems under terms of  a customer 
choice initiative approved by the Commission. 
  
     Nordic has previously received a certificate of public 
convenience and necessity to serve direct access customers in 
specified municipalities in both Detroit Edison's and Consumers 
Energy Company's service territories.  Today's order amends the 
certificate to include customers in Monroe.
 
     Nordic filed an application to provide service in Monroe on 
October 6, 1999.  Included in the filing were: 1) confirmation 
that Nordic is an electric power marketer as authorized by the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 2) a franchise granted by 
Monroe governmental officials; and 3) a signed contract for the 
sale of electricity to  Northstar Steel Company.   The  
Northstar/Nordic contract was also approved by the Commission.

     Nordic, headquartered in Ann Arbor,  is an electric power 
marketer.  It currently supplies electricity to a number of 
industrial customers in Ann Arbor. 

     The MPSC is an agency within the Department of Consumer and 
Industry Services.

Case No. U-12153
November 17, 1999
(Nordic Electric granted a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity for Monroe)