ITC Midwest is NOT a “Public Service Corporation”
October 23, 2014 @ 9:30 a.m.
Minnesota Public Utilities Commission
121 – 7th Place East, 3rd Floor Meeting Room
St. Paul, Minnesota
Thursday, the ITC Midwest, LLC application for its MN/IA Transmission Project is before the Public Utilities Commission.
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PUC Staff filed Staff Briefing Papers which gives us some idea what PUC staff is thinking about it:
From these Staff Briefing Papers, it’s clear staff is discounting the importance of the judge’s “Finding of Fact” that ITC Midwest is a public service corporation. The judge started out his Recommendation with this finding, the erroneous part highlighted:
PUC Staff, however, glossed over this in the narrative, and then used the summary which did not highlight the erroneous part. So today I filed a letter of clarification:
This is the most important part, a big deal, yet so simple:
Minn. Stat. Ch. 322B does not equal Minn. Stat. 301B.01 (or Ch. 301B).
301B PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS
322B LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES
Will the Public Utilities Commission care? We shall see.