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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

Xcel Rate Case in CapX territory

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on July 20, 2016 by adminJuly 20, 2016

Next week, the Xcel Energy rate case public hearings are in St. Cloud and Red Wing, both in areas hard hit by CapX 2020.  Southern Minnesota was also hit with the ITC MN/IA project, which is the northern part of … Continue reading →

Posted in PUC Docket, Rate Case - Transmission | Tagged Badger-Coulee, CapX 2020, e21, e21 Initiative, ITC, Mike Bull, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, MISO, MISO MVP, MVP 17 project portfolio, MVP Portfolio, transmission line, Xcel Energy | Leave a reply

More Denial of Intervention in Xcel Rate Case

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on May 3, 2016 by adminMay 3, 2016

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 →

Posted in Cost Recovery, FERC, Laws & Rules, Rate Case - Transmission | Tagged 15-826, e21, e21 Initiative, ILSR, Institute for Local Self Reliance, Myer Shark, Rate Case, SunShare, Xcel Energy, Xcel Energy e21 Initiative | 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

Encourage public participation? Yeah, right…

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on February 10, 2016 by adminFebruary 10, 2016

I haven’t given out one of these in a long time, but here we go, the Horse’s Ass Award to Xcel Energy and Office of Administrative Hearings, based on the bias and double standards for participation and obstructions to intervention … Continue reading →

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Xcel Energy objects AGAIN! Of course…

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on February 2, 2016 by adminFebruary 2, 2016

The rate case trudges on… I’d filed a SECOND Petition for Intervention, and Xcel has filed a SECOND objection: Overland-NoCapX_Intervention2_FINAL Xcel Energy’s SECOND Objection to Overland/No CapX 2020 SECOND Petition to Intervene Look how they’re framing this.  The “Clean Energy … Continue reading →

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CapX & MVP cost allocation and a stroll down memory lane…

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on February 2, 2016 by adminFebruary 2, 2016

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-CAN  FERC Docket ER09-1431 This … Continue reading →

Posted in Cost Recovery, FERC, Rate Case - Transmission | Tagged CapX 2020, cost allocation, FERC, MISO MVP, MVP Portfolio, No CapX 2020, rate recovery, United Citizen Action Network | Leave a reply

Well, look who’s intervened in the rate case!

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on January 26, 2016 by adminJanuary 26, 2016

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 →

Posted in Cost Recovery, FERC, Rate Case - Transmission | Tagged MCEA, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Sierra Club, Wind on the Wires, WOW | Leave a reply

2nd Petition for Intervention in Xcel Rate Case

NO Grid North Partners - transmission f/k/a CapX 2020 Posted on January 24, 2016 by adminJanuary 25, 2016

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 →

Posted in Cost Recovery, PUC Docket, Rate Case - Transmission | Tagged Carol A. Overland, Legalectric, MISO MVP Portfolio, MVP 17 project portfolio, No CapX 2020, Rate Case, Schedule 26A, transmission, Xcel Energy | Leave a reply

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