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 →
The MPV3 line they’re referring to below is the red line above. The MVP projects were, at the time, estimated to cost $5.24 BILLION, to be divided between states. This MVP project was one where NoCapX was a limited intervenor, … 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 →
Next week, the Xcel Energy rate case public hearings are in St. Cloud and Red Wing, both in areas hard hit by CapX 2020. Southern Minnesota was also hit with the ITC MN/IA project, which is the northern part of … Continue reading →
Yup, the southern part of MVP 5 through Iowa and Wisconsin is in the news today: Dubuque, Cassville or Guttenberg? Transmisison line routes considered. A while back, the City of Dubuque stood up for its residents and viewshed and all … 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 →
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 →
I’ve just spent the last week dealing with transmission need and routing, both primary issues in eminent domain and condemnation for transmission lines (well, two days, but prep before, and the aftermath likgers…). Here’s what the Wall Street Journal has … Continue reading →