Petitions for Rehearing went in on Wednesday: Segment A-Petition for Rehearing SOUL/CETF Motion for Rehearing Look what’s arrived today in Google Alerts! An article about challenges to the Badger Coulee transmission project: Power line foes ask for new hearing on … Continue reading →
Today was the deadline for Petitions for Rehearing of the Badger-Coulee Final Order. Here’s the April 23, 2015 Order: Final Order 05-CE-142 And here’s the Petition for Rehearing I filed today for the “Segment A Landowners” in Middleton: Segment A-Petition … Continue reading →
OH. MY. DOG. Did you know Diane Ramthun, formerly PSC Counsel, is now at Reynolds Oliveira, LLC? Diane’s Reynolds Oliveira page HERE! Diane’s own “Diane Ranthum” page HERE! Diane Ramthun is the one who called me up as the Wisconsin … Continue reading →
In an interesting twist that will take some digging to fully understand, ITC got smacked upside the head recently at FERC. Well, a little, but they should have been sent packing altogether. They’d requested a tariff adder, in addition to … Continue reading →
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 →
Last week, Frank Jablonski, representing the Town of Holland, filed an appeal challenging the Wisconsin Public Service Commission Badger Coulee decision. Holland went directly to the court, and didn’t bother with an administrative Motion for Reconsideration at the PSC. Given … Continue reading →
Bill Howley died yesterday. Bill Howley is known by anyone working in opposition to transmission projects. Due to a transmission line proposed in his community, he learned pretty much everything there is to know about transmission, wrote about it faithfully … Continue reading →
Final Order 05-CE-142 Let’s see… there is NO MENTION of MVP 5. It doesn’t deal with cost apportionment of the 17 MVP projects. And how is it that Commissioner Huebsch didn’t recuse, and that’s OK? He didn’t disclose potential conflict … Continue reading →
I’m having one of those “D’OH!” moments… Remember at the tail end of the ITC case where there was suddenly a claim that the Geronimo wind project in SW Minnesota wouldn’t go on line without the ITC MVP 3 transmission … Continue reading →
Mystery solved??? I think so… deep breathe… looks like MidAmerican is OK, in compliance. I’d checked the IUB’s E-22099 docket, and it looked like MidAmerican hadn’t been granted the franchise, briefs had just been filed, but no order. So I … Continue reading →