WHEW! Just filed, the CETF and NoCapX 2020 Petition for Reconsideration of the Wisconsin PSC Order granting the CPCN for CapX 2020 Hampton-Rochester-La Crosse transmission line: NoCapX & CETF Petition for Rehearing
Continue reading →AAAAAAGH! Two in the same day… Just now, the Minnesota version of the CapX 2020 Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse routing permit: PUC Order – Part I – Order PUC Order – Part II – Permit PUC Order – Part IIIa – Maps, Legend … Continue reading →
(Map February 2010) Well, they’ve done it. The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has issued its written Order: PSC’s Order 5-30-2012 Now, have to read it…
Continue reading →In Wisconsin, the Public Service Commission granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, and permitted a route for which they did not even have the COST! They had not determined the inputs to calculate the “Environmental Impact Fee” (bribe … Continue reading →
Last week, Thursday to be precise, the “Buy the Farm” provision under the Power Plant Siting Act and Northern States Power’s challenge to compensation avenues available to landowners electing the “Buy the Farm“ option under Minn. Stat. 216E.12, Subd. 4 … Continue reading →
Yesterday the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin gave Xcel Energy what it wanted – a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the CapX 2020 Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse transmission line. During discussion, members of the PSC dissed the Dept. of Transportation arguments … Continue reading →
Bob Cupit, Energy Facilities Supervisor, is retiring from the Public Utilities Commission today… leaving me to wonder how… rephrase…Â he CAN’T be replaced…Â so what will happen now at the PUC? Bob Cupit and Mike Casper are tied for “Most … Continue reading →
This was our last shot, comments on PSC staff’s Briefing Memorandum and Decision Matrix: PSC Staff Briefing Memo and Attachment PSC Staff Decision Matrix And here are the Comments received (where’s MISO??): NoCapX & CETF Comments on Briefing Memo and … Continue reading →
Wisconsin’s CPCN process is a little different than MN, procedurally and substantively. Procedurally, we get another whack at the apple before the Commission makes its decision, and that last chance is here, now. Friday, the PSC staff filed their Briefing … Continue reading →
This week and next — ATC is holding open houses for its Badger-Coulee line this week and next! April 17-19 and 24-26! Got that? Mark your calendars. It’s all part of the bigger plan, the WIREs line stretching from the … Continue reading →