FYI: MN PUC – How To eDockets NOTICE_EIS-Scoping-Meetings_20241-202004-02Download The last two weeks have been scoping meetings for the Environmental Impact Statement for the “MN Energy CONnection.” Per Xcel’s site, “You can read the Certificate of Need filing here and the … Continue reading →
Got a pissive from American Transmission Company (ATC) — apparently it objects to World Organization for Landowner Freedom’s (WOLF)_Petition-for-Intervention in the Minnesota Power “HVDC Modernization” docket (Public Utilities Commission dockets E015/CN-22-607 and E015/TL-22-611). Here’s ATC‘s Objection: 0240116_Docket Nos.22-607_22-611_ATC_Objection_Petition to Intervene … Continue reading →
Here we go, World Organization for Landowner Freedom is BAAAACK! Cover_Notice-of-Appearance Download WOLF_Petition-for-Intervention Download Here we go!
Continue reading →It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! It’s the Annual Power Plant Siting Act Hearing, where we get to tell an Administrative Law Judge how we think our state’s system for Power Plant Siting works and doesn’t work. In … Continue reading →
Updating — it’s really too much to track!
Continue reading →Draft-SEIS-Notice-Prairie-Island-2.1.22 Draft-SEIS – Download Xcel Energy still refuses to disclose the dry casks it wants to use, and yes, they probably won’t order them until there’s a permit to do it, but when Orano folks show up at the Dept. … Continue reading →
CapX 2020 is now “Grid North Partners.” Do we really need to go through this AGAIN? Contact them at info@gridnorthpartners.com to be added to their mailing list. WHAT ABOUT DISTRIBUTED GENERATION DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? 2020 CapX2050 Vision Report: CapX2050_TransmissionVisionReport_FINAL.pdf … Continue reading →
That’s the CapX 2020 345kV line crossing Minnesota’s Zumbro River at the White Bridge Road looking towards the “North Rochester” substation just north of Pine Island. Now they’re proposing yet ANOTHER 345kV line coming in from the west to “North … Continue reading →
First there was CapX 2020 transmission (following Arrowhead transmission, which was supposed to be the be-all and end-all of transmission)(and the SW MN 345kV line, precursor to CapX 2020. CapX transmission was based on a forecasted 2.49% increase in demand, … Continue reading →