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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

Barr Engineering Complaint Before PUC Oct 4th

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on October 1, 2012 by adminOctober 1, 2012

This Thursday, the PUC will be taking my the NoCapX 2020 Complaint against Barr Engineering of Conflict of Interest… again. CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO TUNE IN LIVE! PUC staff recommendation is “no jurisdiction” and not action by PUC other … Continue reading →

Posted in BadgerCoulee - Wisconsin, Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, Laws & Rules, PUC Docket, Upcoming Events | Tagged Barr Engineering, conflict of interest, Public Utilitites Commission | Leave a reply

Buy the Farm – a landowner win in District Court!

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on July 19, 2011 by adminJuly 19, 2011

Transmission going up in SW Minnesota (Fair Use – from mpr.org) As Xcel tries to build its CapX 2020 wonderland, and as people are being served with Petitions for condemnation of their land for easements for this transmission buildout, people … Continue reading →

Posted in Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, Laws & Rules, Nuts & Bolts, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged 216E.12, Buy the Farm, Subd. 4, Wright County | Leave a reply

GRE & Xcel hustling for $$$$$

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on October 20, 2010 by adminOctober 20, 2010

Apparently Great River Energy and Xcel Energy are outlooking for money.  Gee, I wonder why?  I remember the snorts and hoots that broke out in the room way back during the CapX Certificate of Need hearing when they admitted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse, PUC Docket, St.Cloud-Monticello | Tagged capital expenditures, CapX 2020, CapX2020, financing, Lehman Bros, Lehman Brothers, powerline, transmission capital cost, transmission line | Leave a reply

CapX 2020 North Dakota in the news

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on October 7, 2010 by adminOctober 7, 2010

There was a very strange report from North Dakota – somewhere on the CapX 2020 Fargo-St. Cloud road show last week, they were asked about the permitting status of that line in North Dakota, and we got some blather that … Continue reading →

Posted in Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Brookings Routing Docket, Cost Recovery, Fargo-St Cloud, Hampton-Alma-LaCrosse | Tagged CapX 2020, North Dakota Public Service Commission, powerline, transmission line | Leave a reply

Deal done on CapX Bemidji-Grand Rapids?

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on August 27, 2010 by adminAugust 27, 2010

It looks like a deal is in the works to get the CapX 2020 Bemidji-Grand Rapids transmission line through the Leech Lake Reservation: Documents outline power line talks between Leech Lake, utility officials Posted: 5:21 pm Thu, August 26, 2010 … Continue reading →

Posted in Bemidji-Grand Rapids | Tagged Bemidji-Grand Rapids, CapX 2020 Bemidji-Grand Rapids transmission line, Leech Lake Band | Leave a reply

Motion DENIED in CapX Bemidji-Grand Rapids

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on August 17, 2010 by adminAugust 17, 2010

Seems the ALJ doesn’t think it’s a problem to have the Final EIS come in and that the public not be able to comment on it.  Seems the ALJ doesn’t acknowledge that in the Brookings case the record was expressly … Continue reading →

Posted in Bemidji-Grand Rapids | Tagged Bemidji-Grand Rapids, CapX 2020, NoCapX 2020, powerline, transmission line | Leave a reply

Motion to Intervene/Extend Comment Period filed

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on August 9, 2010 by adminAugust 9, 2010

Today NoCapX 2020 and United Citizen Action Network have filed a Motion to Intervene in the CapX Bemidji-Grand Rapids case.  Why?  Because the comments of the EPA show that there are serious problems with the EIS and that issues raised … Continue reading →

Posted in Bemidji-Grand Rapids | Tagged Bemidji-Grand Rapids, CapX 2020, CapX 2020 Bemidji-Grand Rapids, Motion to Intervene, NoCapX 2020, powerline, transmission, transmission line | Leave a reply

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