No Rights as a Stockholder; Dividends and Dividend Equivalents. Neither the Units nor this Agreement shall entitle Awardee to any voting rights or other rights as a stockholder of the Company unless and until Stock has been issued in settlement thereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no dividends or dividend equivalents shall accrue or be paid with respect to any Units.

The Grantee has no voting rights and no rights to receive dividends or dividend equivalents or other ownership rights and privileges of a stockholder with respect to the shares of Common Stock subject to the Restricted Stock Units.

Dividends and Dividend Equivalents. An Award may provide the Participant with the right to receive dividends or dividend equivalent payments with respect to Stock which may be either paid currently or credited to an account for the Participant, and may be settled in cash or Stock as determined by the Committee. Any such settlements, and any such crediting of dividends or dividend equivalents or reinvestment in shares of Stock, may be subject to such conditions, restrictions and contingencies as the Committee shall establish, including the reinvestment of such credited amounts in Stock equivalents.

Dividends and Dividend Equivalents. A Participant will have no voting rights or dividend rights with respect to the Performance Shares or any shares of Stock underlying the Performance Shares during the Performance Period. No Participant will be entitled to receive any cash dividends or dividend equivalents with respect to Performance Shares during the Performance Period. However, at the same time that shares of Stock are issued under [Section 5] or [Section 6], the Participant (or the Participant’s beneficiary determined in accordance with [Section 10]) will also receive a lump sum cash payment equal to the amount of cash dividends paid by the Company that were declared during the Performance Period on the number of shares of Stock issued to the Participant (or the Participant’s beneficiary).

Dividend Equivalents. Prior to the Distribution Date, the RSUs shall be credited with dividend equivalents in an amount equal to the dividends paid on the Company’s Common Stock. Such dividend equivalents shall be credited to a bookkeeping account established by the Company under the Plan in Your name in each calendar quarter prior to the Distribution Date that the Company pays a dividend on its outstanding Shares of Common Stock. Amounts credited to this account shall be credited with a quarterly rate equal to the dividend payment rate with dividends invested as of the last business day of each quarter and share price equal to the average of the high and low actual sale prices of the Company’s Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on the date the transaction is credited. Amounts accumulated in this account shall be proportionately distributed to You in Shares at the same time that the Shares related to the RSUs are distributed to You. Such dividend equivalents shall Vest in accordance with the Vesting of the underlying Award.

Dividend Equivalents. Each Director may elect to defer all or a portion of any dividend equivalents paid on Restricted Stock Units.

Dividend Equivalents. For record dates that occur before payment is made with [Section 6] hereof (or, if the Performance Units are deferred as described in [Section 6(c)], before the date on which payment would have been made in accordance with [Section 6] hereof but for such deferral), Participant shall be entitled to receive, with respect to each Performance Unit that is converted to cash, Dividend Equivalent amounts if dividends are declared by the Board of Directors on the Company’s Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if there is a Change in Control as described under [Section 2(d)], Dividend Equivalent amounts shall only accrue for record dates that occur before the Change in Control. In the event of a Change in Control and Qualified CIC Termination described under [Section 2(e)], Dividend Equivalent amounts shall only accrue for record dates that occur before the Qualified CIC Termination. The Dividend Equivalent amounts shall be an amount of cash per share of Common Stock that is

Dividend Equivalents. On any date that a number of earned Units has been determined to have vested in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, a total dividend equivalent amount will be determined by multiplying the number of Units determined to have vested on such date by the per share amount of each cash dividend paid on the Company’s Stock with a record date and payment date occurring between the Grant Date and the applicable vesting date, and adding those products together. The total dividend equivalent amount, net of any amount required to satisfy withholding tax obligations as provided in [Section 8] of this Agreement, will be paid to you (or your permitted transferee) in cash at the time the vested Units are settled as provided in [Section 5] of this Agreement.

Dividend Equivalents. ​ shall have the right to receive additional RSUs with a value equal to the regular cash dividend paid on one Share for each RSU held pursuant to this Agreement prior to the conversion of RSUs and issuance of Shares pursuant to [Section 7]. The number of additional RSUs to be received as dividend equivalents for each RSU held shall be determined by dividing the cash dividend per share by the Fair Market Value of one Share on the dividend payment date; provided, however, that for purposes of avoiding the issuance of fractional RSUs, on each dividend payment date the additional RSUs issued as dividend equivalents shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. All such additional RSUs received as dividend equivalents shall be fully vested upon issuance, and shall be converted into Shares on the basis and at the time set forth in [Section 7] hereof.

Dividend Equivalents. You will receive Dividend Equivalents with respect to Performance Shares that are earned and payable. Dividend Equivalents are calculated and credited to you after the Performance Period has ended. The Dividend Equivalents will be in the form of additional Performance Shares, which will be added to the number of Performance Shares earned, and will equal the number of Shares (including fractional Shares) that could have been purchased on applicable dividend payment dates, based on the closing ALLETE common stock price as reported in the consolidated transaction reporting system on that date, with cash dividends that would have been paid on underlying Performance Shares, if such Performance Shares were Shares. Dividend Equivalents will only become payable if and to the extent the underlying Performance Shares are earned and become payable.