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 →
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 →
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 →
The CapX 2020 project has been a part of my life for over 12 years… and now it’s mostly up and running. So I’ve spent the day digging through the dusty files. What a mess. Boxes and boxes and boxes. … Continue reading →
WOW… can you believe?? It’s not just me, it’s not just denial of Intervention of No CapX 2020.  See 20162-118122-01_Denial2_Overland-NoCapX Intervention. Intervention as a party in this Rate Case is only open to those who sold out to Xcel Energy … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Today a FERC order came out addressing a Petition for Limited Intervention Out-of-Time made by No CapX 2020 and United Citizens Action Network, filed on May 20, 2010, nearly 6 years ago. FERC Intervention-NoCapX & U-CANÂ FERC Docket ER09-1431 This … Continue reading →
Fresh Energy, Sierra Club (national? Northstar Chapter? ??), Wind on the Wires, NRDC, MCEA have joined together under MCEA to intervene in the Xcel Energy “transmission driven” rate case. CEO+Petition+to+Intervene So… are all of them in agreement on positions? Some … Continue reading →
Apparently Judge Oxley did not like the Overland and No CapX 2020 Petition for Intervention in the rate case, late Friday the Order came out. It was denied, without prejudice. And yet interventions for Commercial Group, Suburban Rate Authority, and … Continue reading →