Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Purchase Contracts, Fiscal Year Maturity Schedule

As of March 31,2016, the future commitments related to these purchase contracts were as follows:

(In thousands)		2016		2017		2018		2019		2020
Natural gas transportation & storage(a)	$	14,000	$	24,902	$	24,833	$	23,048	$	16,274

(a)MGE's natural gas transportation and storage contracts require fixed monthly payments for firm supply pipeline transportation and storage capacity. The pricing components of the fixed monthly payments for the transportation and storage contracts are established by FERC but may be subject to change.