{"id":103,"date":"2008-01-04T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-01-04T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T05:46:32","slug":"fyi-its-capital-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"FYI, it’s “Capital Expenditure”"},"content":{"rendered":"

… a quick aside.\u00c2\u00a0 “I remember when,” she says in a creaky shaky voice, but I do, I remember when CapX 2020 was “Capital Expenditure,” and as I sat through too many meetings last month, I remembered that when they called it “Capacity Expansion.”\u00c2\u00a0 So isn’t that what Dog gave me google for?\u00c2\u00a0 And on Otter Tail’s site:<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Minnesota’s electric transmission infrastructure\u00e2\u20ac\u201da network of high voltage transmission lines of 230 kilovolts and higher\u00e2\u20ac\u201drequires major upgrades and expansion over the next 15 years to support customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 growing demand for electricity. To ensure the backbone transmission system is developed and available to serve these growing needs, the five largest Minnesota transmission-owning utilities initiated the CapX 2020 project. CapX 2020, which originally stood for “Capital Expenditures by the Year 2020″\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to make sure the capital would be available to meet the need\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas now become “Capacity Expansion by the Year 2020”.\u00c2\u00a0<\/a> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, they found that source of capital — stick it to the ratepayers, because after all, “it’s for reliability, not generation interconnection.”\u00c2\u00a0 I digress…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… a quick aside.\u00c2\u00a0 “I remember when,” she says in a creaky shaky voice, but I do, I remember when CapX 2020 was “Capital Expenditure,” and as I sat through too many meetings last month, I remembered that when they …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuts-bolts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}