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 →
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 →
YES, another Buy the Farm win, just released today! OPA131474-030415 Check it out, read the decision. On MPR: Supreme Court backs farmers in CapX 2020 powerline fight On KSTP: State Supreme Court Rules Against Utility Companies in Farmland Dispute For … Continue reading →
Judge Newmark has just filed an Order granting the NoCapX Motion for Extension to File Non-Party Brief and here it is: Order to Enlarge Time And the Brief, filed yesterday, which is now accepted, in the record: No CapX 2020_Non-Party Brief … Continue reading →
Remember this map? The ITC Midwest MN/IA line is the ITC Midwest part of MISO’s “MVP 3” which on the above map is the red part. The other part of MISO’s “MVP 3” is to be built and owned by … Continue reading →