What’s new?
Updates and Repository! Helpful and useful information? Please donate —->
Continue reading →ANOTHER Comment period — Mankato-Mississippi xmsn
And here we go — the Public Utilities Commission has announced the first Comment period on the just-applied-for “Mankato-Mississippi 345 kV Transmission Line” or the “Wilmarth-North Rochester-Tremval 345 kV” depending on who’s talking… At least 2 of my clients are … Continue reading →
2005 – Remember the Big Stone II transmission line?
Almost 20 years ago, after the 2001 SW MN 345 kV line (01-1958) opened the floodgates, and after the 2005 legislative changes to Certificate of Need and Transmission siting laws, many utilities jointly applied for Big Stone transmission — PUC … Continue reading →
Yet another transmission comment period!
A comment period has been announced for Minnesota Power & GRE’s “Northern Reliability Project,” which is Public Utilities Commission Docket E015,ET2/CN-22-416 (the Certificate of Need only). Plenty of time to read and think and write. This time around, they’re looking … Continue reading →
Xmsn – Brooking –> Lyon Co. & Helena –> Hampton
Well, that sure was a bust. There were a few folks off to the left, way in back, but NO ONE ELSE SAID ANYTHING! What’s with people? Why show up to sit like a bump on a log? Here’s the … Continue reading →
MP’s HVDC Modernization – WOLF Comment
Yesterday was the deadline for “Public Comments” so here are the World Organization for Landowner Freedom (WOLF) Comments: WOLF_Participant-Public-Comment Download WOLF-Affidavit-of-Overland_HVDC-Mod Download
Continue reading →Prairie Island nuclear sirens decommissioning?
The January 22, 2024 Red Wing City Council meeting was jam packed full of goofy ideas. Yesterday, I posted about the limitation of public comment to 3 minutes at the beginning of the meeting in the Public Comment period. Today’s … Continue reading →
Xcel presents on IRP and more dry casks
It’s been old home week, errrrrr, month, for Xcel Energy at the Red Wing City Council. The February 6th meeting was pretty wild, Xcel “decommissioning” the emergency warning sirens and transferring costs to us (!) and their Emergency Plan. Here’s … Continue reading →
Our “good neighbors” at Xcel Energy have file an application for a Certificate of Need to add more nuclear waste casks at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant. The application is the most poorly written filing I’ve seen from Xcel … Continue reading →
“MN Energy Connection” – another new one!
And the road show begins!!! MN Energy Connection Transmission Line? Xcel of course… Now, why do we need this? This is that odd notion of a tie between SW Minnesota, i.e., Buff Ridge, and the Sherco substation, essentially going backwards. … Continue reading →
Xcel’s MN Energy CON
Over the last two weeks, we’ve had a bit of a road show for Xcel Energy‘s MN Energy CON(nection). We went from “Kilowatt Community Center” (really) in Granite Falls, to Marshall, and Olivia (Max’s Grill and Sheep Shed with the … Continue reading →