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Aquila buys out tolling contract

KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 16 (UPI) -- Aquila Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., is paying a unit of Constellation Energy Group Inc. $218 million for its Elwood tolling contracts.

The contract obligations being purchased extend through August 2017, Aquila said Friday. Constellation assumes all responsibility for the Elwood tolling contracts. For Aquila, the $218 million payment will be a pretax charge to earnings.

"Removing this obligation allows us to achieve another milestone in our repositioning plan," said Richard C. Green, Aquila's chairman and chief executive officer.

Aquila runs electric power generation and electric and natural gas transmission and distribution utilities serving 1.2 million customers in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska.


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