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10 The decision is not arbitrary or capricious if there is a “rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.” In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotation omitted).

An agency’s conclusions are not arbitrary or capricious so long as there is a “rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.” In re Review of 2005 Annual Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotation omitted).

In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment

& Gas Utils., (quotation omitted).

While the analysis of each factor from DHS is not lengthy, each factor articulated a “rational connection between the facts found and the choice made [by DHS].” In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotation omitted).

Further, an “agency’s conclusions are not arbitrary and capricious so long as [there is] a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.” In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment, (quotation omitted).

& Gas Utils., (quotation omitted).

& Gas Util s., (“[A]n agency must generally conform to its prior norms and decisions or, to the extent that it departs from its prior norms and decisions, the agency must set forth a reasoned analysis for the departure that is not arbitrary and capricious.”).

The party challenging an agency decision “bears the burden of establishing that the agency findings are not supported by the evidence in the record.” In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment

A decision is arbitrary or capricious if the agency “relied on factors not intended by the legislature,” “entirely failed to consider an important aspect of the problem,” or “offered an explanation that runs counter to the evidence.” In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotations omitted).

& Gas Utils., (In re Adjustment).

In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges

& Gas Utils., d 112, 120 (Minn. 2009).

& Gas Utils., (quotation omitted).

& Gas Utils., (applying arbitrary-or-capricious standard to decision by commission denying variance from rule governing annual reconciliation of natural-gas costs).

An agency’s conclusions are not arbitrary and capricious so long as there is a “rational connection between the facts found and the choice made.” In re Review of 2005 Annual Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotation omitted).

In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges

Agency decisions are presumed to be correct, “and deference is shown to an agency’s conclusions in the area of its expertise.” In re 2005 Adjustment of Charges

( In re 2005 Adjustment of Charges ).

In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment

& Gas Utilities, d 112, 120 (Minn. 2009).

of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotation omitted).

& Gas Utils., (In re 2005 Adjustment).

& Gas Utils ., (citation omitted) (In re Review ).

& Gas Utilities , ( 2005 Charges), for the proposition that an agency “mus t generally conform to its prior norms and decisions or, to the extent that it departs from its prior norms and decisions, the agency must set forth a reasoned analysis for the depa rture that is not arbitrary and capricious.” The supreme c

“If there is room for two opinions on a matter, the [board]’s decision is not arbitrary and capricious, ev en though the court may believe that an erroneous conclusion was reached.” In re Rev. of 2005 Ann. Automatic Adjustment of Charges

In re Review of 2005 Annual Automatic Adjustment of Charges

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& Gas Utils., 10 10 Xcel asserts that, because the MPUC was ac ting in a legislative capacity, and because XLI does not challenge the MPUC’s “authority or fact finding,” XLI’s challenge must fail because it has not proven that the MPUC’s decision was “ill egal by

& Gas Utils., -119 (Minn. 2009); Zahler v. Minnesota Dep’t of Human Servs., review denied (Minn. June 19, 2001).

“Because we must afford deference to the agency’s decision, our review of the Commission’s decision is guided by the principle that the agency’s conclusions are not arbitrary and capricious so long as a rational connection between th e facts found and the choice made has been articulated.” In re Review of 2005 Annual Automatic Adjustment of Charges, (quotation omitted).