From the public meeting materials, here’s what they’re looking at, above. These are significant additions to the transmission grid in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Look at the number of double circuits they want to add, and look at the new transmission … Continue reading →
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-CANÂ FERC Docket ER09-1431 This … 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 →
Big CapX 2020 day today, what with oral arguments at the Appellate Court on Segment 1 and Segment 3 of the Minnesota routing docket, and LOTS of Answers and Comments due today on the FERC Complaint filed by CETF and … Continue reading →
Yesterday, Citizens Energy Task Force and Save Our Unique Lands filed a Complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO), Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) and the CapX 2020 Applicant utilities had violated NERC … 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 →
Recently, well, October 10, 2012, I sent a request to Xcel Energy for their contracts referenced in their latest Compliance Filing, specifically for each project the Correspondence to Xcel Energy and MN Dept of Commerce Oct 10, 2012 Correspondence to … Continue reading →
More FERC news today. To check out the entire docket, go to FERC Docket Search and plug in EL13-09. At yesterday’s CETF Board Meeting we decided to file an Intervention at FERC. And I’m bustin’ a gut, Xcel’s response to … Continue reading →
Remember the fight Xcel Energy picked with ATC over ownership of the “La Crosse – Madison” or “Badger – Coulee” transmission line? Xcel won that round, and ATC couldn’t let that go unchallenged, so off they go trying to get … Continue reading →
American Transmission Company just got slapped upside the head by FERC in the Order that came out Friday. ATC claimed that IT was the owner of Badger-Coulee, the extension of CapX 2020 transmission from La Crosse to Madison (dashed line): … Continue reading →