Cardinal-Hickory Creek is the $492-543 million southern part of MPV5, running SW-NE, the line from near Dubuque to Middleton, near Madison, connecting into the 345kV overlay. The Wisconsin EIS scoping period is happening now. Scoping is the determination of the … Continue reading →
Slow evening at Rural Utilities Service’s (RUS) scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Statement for the Cardinal – Hickory Creek transmission project. RUS is involved because Dairyland Power Cooperative (DPC) plans to hold a 9% undivided interest in the project, … Continue reading →
The Town of Holland has challenged the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s Badger-Coulee transmission project decision, where they issued a Final Order 05-ce-142 and permit for this transmission line. 1:45 p.m. on Monday, October 10, 2016 Town of Holland — Circuit … Continue reading →
American Transmission Company (ATC) is holding a “Construction Meeting” about the Badger Coulee transmission project on April 14, an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Town of Springfield Town Hall, 6157 County Highway P, Dane County, Wisconsin. … Continue reading →
That’s Genoa, looking a lot like the Allis reactor that used to be up at Elk River. Good to see Irv and George at the table yesterday! Greetings from utility infrastructure land… next up in the transmission build-out is the … Continue reading →
The ownership mess at FERC gets curiouser and curiouser, messier and messier. Hot off the wire is an ITC complaint against our friends at ATC: Complaint – ITC Midwest LLC v. ATC LLC This is another FERC docket, and to … Continue reading →
ATC is hosting another round of open houses, important because it’s the connection from Minnesota to Wisconsin, and they’ve announced new corridors spreading out from Alma: CHECK THIS ATC MAP (similar to the one below) June 28, Three Bears Lodge, … Continue reading →
Once again, it’s ATC. Just now, NoCapX 2020 and United Citizen Action Network filed an Objection to ATC’s Petition for Intervention that they submitted a week ago: ATC Petition for Intervention And our objection: NoCapX & U-CAN Objection to ATC … Continue reading →
American Transmission Company has filed a Petition to Intervene in the CapX 2020 Minnesota routing docket for the Hampton-LaCrosse route. Hmmmmmmmmm… what does that mean? ATC Petition for Intervention Check it out, they say they have an interest, and no … Continue reading →
Deja vu all over again… Remember this map? The Dakotas to Wisconsin big picture of CapX 2020 goes way back… CapX Interim Report December13, 2004 May 11, 2005 Capx 2020 Technical Update CapX 2020 Update June 14, 2006 And the … Continue reading →