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MISO bars access to planning meetings

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on May 24, 2017 by adminApril 14, 2022

From the public meeting materials, here’s what they’re looking at, above.  These are significant additions to the transmission grid in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  Look at the number of double circuits they want to add, and look at the new transmission … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Brookings Routing Docket, Cardinal-Hickory Creek, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, FERC, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, ITC MN & IA 345 kV, News coverage, Nuts & Bolts, Reports - Documents, South Dakota, St.Cloud-Monticello, Upcoming Events, Wisconsin | Tagged bulk power transfer, Carol A. Overland, CEII, Critical Energy Infrastructure Information, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, Legalectric, MISO, NDA, No CapX 2020, Non Disclosure Agreement, transmission, transmission overlay | Leave a reply

Xmsn Overlay coming soon to a backyard near you!

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on February 9, 2017 by adminFebruary 10, 2017

It’s early, so now’s the time to get agitated, get activated! As if CapX 2020 wasn’t enough, and during the CapX 2020 Certificate of Need proceeding, word of the “JCSP” overlay came out.  And we know that Xcel, in its … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Brookings Routing Docket, Cardinal-Hickory Creek, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, ITC MN & IA 345 kV, Q-1 Upgrade, Reports - Documents, South Dakota, St.Cloud-Monticello, Wisconsin | Tagged CapX 2020, Carol A. Overland, Legalectric, MISO, MISO MVP, MVP 17 project portfolio, powerline, Public Utilities Commission, transmission line, transmission overlay | 1 Reply

CapX 2020 — It’s over, it’s done, all but the cost recovery

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on September 28, 2016 by adminSeptember 28, 2016

CapX 2020 at Highway 61 south of Wabasha Monday, they had their CapX 2020 Love Fest at the Hampton substation, and I didn’t even get an engraved invitation.  It’s a depressing point in time — 12 years on this project … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, ITC MN & IA 345 kV, News coverage, Rate Case - Transmission, St.Cloud-Monticello, Wisconsin | Tagged CapX 2020, Carol A. Overland, Dairyland Power Cooperative, DPC, GRE, Great River Energy, Legalectric, No CapX 2020, powerline, Rochester Public Utility, Rural Utility Service, transmission line, Xcel, Xcel Energy | Leave a reply

Put on your waders — CapX 2020 Report!

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on April 28, 2016 by adminApril 28, 2016

It’s out, the report from U of M Humphrey School of Public Affairs about CapX 2020, headlining it as a “Model for addressing climate change.“ Transmission Planning and CapX 2020: Building Trust to Build Regional Transmission Systems Oh, please, this … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Buy the Farm, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, Rate Case - Transmission, Reports - Documents, St.Cloud-Monticello, Wisconsin | Tagged CapX 2020, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, No CapX 2020, Phyllis Reha, PUC, Tim Carlsbad, Transmission Planning and CapX 2020: Building Trust to Build Regional Transmission Systems, Xcel Energy | Leave a reply

Xcel’s bogus demand forecast basis for CapX

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on February 21, 2016 by adminFebruary 21, 2016

Remember Xcel’s CapX 2020 peak demand projections of 2.49% annual increase?  How wrong can they be?  And how unjustified was their basis for a Certificate of Need for CapX 2020?  And how are they held accountable for those gross misrepresentations?  … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Cardinal-Hickory Creek, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, Laws & Rules, News coverage, Rate Case - Transmission, Reports - Documents, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged Carol A. Overland, decreased demand, e21, e21 Initiative, Legalectric, peak demand, Rate Case, Xcel Energy | Leave a reply

Dedication of CapX 2020?

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on May 4, 2015 by adminMay 5, 2015

WHAT?!?!  The dedication ceremony for the CapX 2020 Brookings – Hampton and Fargo – St. Cloud – Monticello projects, and I didn’t get a gold engraved invitation?  And of course there’s Beth Soholt, “Wind on the Wires” (f/k/a a program … Continue reading →

Posted in Brookings Routing Docket, Fargo-St Cloud, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged No CapX 2020, No CapX2020 | Leave a reply

Response from Xcel about Info Requests

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on October 24, 2012 by adminOctober 24, 2012

Recently, well, October 10, 2012, I sent a request to Xcel Energy for their contracts referenced in their latest Compliance Filing, specifically for each project the Correspondence to Xcel Energy and MN Dept of Commerce Oct 10, 2012 Correspondence to … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Brookings Routing Docket, Fargo-St Cloud, FERC, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged and Operation and Maintenance Agreements, Brookings-Hampton, Construction Management Agreements, Fargo - Monticello, FERC, Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse, Participation Agreements, Restated Project Participation Agreements, Transmission Capacity Exchange Agreements, Xcel Energy | 2 Replies

MTEP 11 steamrolling its way across the Midwest

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on December 9, 2011 by adminDecember 9, 2011

Here it is, MTEP 11, the Midwest Transmission Expansion Plan for 2011 (CLICK HERE, look on lower right), and it’s in the news too.  The main report and some appendices: MTEP 11 – Draft Report MTEP Appendices A B & … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Brookings Routing Docket, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, St.Cloud-Monticello, Wisconsin | Tagged Badger-Coulee, Brookings-Hampton, CapX 2020, cost allocation, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse, high voltage transmission line, Midwest Independent System Operator, MISO, NoCapX 2020, powerline, transmission line | Leave a reply

Fargo-St. Cloud-Monticello – landowners speak out!

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on November 9, 2011 by adminNovember 9, 2011

There has been a flood of public comments in response to, and because a comment period opened about, Xcel’s request for permit amendments.  The lion’s share of them are regarding the short stretch of E-5 and AS-1, from landowners near … Continue reading →

Posted in Fargo-St Cloud, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged CapX 2020, landowners' rights, Monticello, transmisison line, transmission lines, Xcel Energy | Leave a reply

Buy the Farm cases on St. Cloud to Monticello line

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on October 26, 2011 by adminOctober 26, 2011

Remember not too long ago that landowners challenged the utilities’ attempt to limit their compensation if they chose the Buy the Farm option?  Buy the Farm is Minn. Stat. 216E.12, Subd. 4: Subd. 4. Contiguous land. When private real property … Continue reading →

Posted in Fargo-St Cloud, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged Buy the Farm, CapX 2020, eminent domain, landowner rights, landowners' rights | Leave a reply

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