{"id":4794,"date":"2013-04-21T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2013-04-22T06:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:21:10","slug":"decreased-demand-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Decreased demand continues…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How did this happen?\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody’s sleeping at the switch!\u00c2\u00a0 I forgot to post the link for the 2012 Earnings Call transcript from Seeking Alpha!<\/a> And it’s a doozy.\u00c2\u00a0 You can find the FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Northern States Power \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Minnesota estimates a\u00c2\u00a0 decrease of demand in Minnesota of about 1.2% (-1.2%) in 2013:<\/p>\n

Andrew M. Weisel<\/strong> – Macquarie Research<\/a><\/p>\n

A few questions on behalf of Angie Storozynski. First question is you talked quite a bit qualitatively about the load growth expectations, but can you give us the number that you’re expecting for 2013 and in the long term?<\/a><\/p>\n

Teresa S. Madden<\/strong> – Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President<\/a><\/p>\n

Sure. I mean, in terms of 2013, maybe if I just talk about it by operating company. We’re — for NSP-Minnesota, we’re looking at a decrease of about 1.2%, NSP-Wisconsin expected to be flat. In Colorado, just under 1%, actually, that’s more about 0.6%. And in Colorado — I mean, excuse me, and in Texas, over — just around 3%, I would say. So overall, we expect it to come in between up to 0.5% on a consolidated basis.<\/a><\/p>\n

XEL Earnings Call, January 31, 2013. <\/a><\/p>\n

Benjamin G. S. Fowke \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Well, everything — overall, on the residential side, it’s safe to say everything is pretty flat. So then you move to the C&I side, and actually, the strongest C&I growth was in Wisconsin this year, followed by Texas, I think, followed by Colorado, which had small growth. And then we were — we didn’t grow at all in Minnesota for a number of reasons. That said, the economy definitely saw some signs of improvement in 2012. Housing permits were up. Job growth was better than the national average. Unemployment was equal to or better than the national average. So I think the economies are in decent shape across all our jurisdictions. Doesn’t necessarily mean it translates to high sales growth. And that’s consistent with our forecast. I mean, we’re not anticipating that we’re going to see a tremendous rebound in sales, even as the economies start to improve. I mean, I think, that’s our new normal, frankly.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s also reflected in their SEC filing showing decreased peak demand, from 9,792 in 2011 to 9,475 in 2012, and a forecast of 9,215 for 2013:<\/p>\n

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Northern States Power 10-K (2012).\u00c2\u00a0 Those are numbers I like to see.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for example, Xcel has produced “forecasting” for the Hollydale Transmission Project that shows another picture entirely — that’s because the Hollydale application is based on old and outdated forecasts from 2006, the peak demand prior to the 2007 economic crash, and bases its need claim on a forecast of 1% annual growth in peak demand:<\/p>\n

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Hollydale Application, p. 42-48; 50-57; see also 12, 14, 35, 38; see also Table 2 and Table 3, p. 48-49.\u00c2\u00a0 Xcel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hollydale Need Addendum,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dated January 24, 2013, exacerbates this error claiming a 1.8% growth rate and using a 1.8% growth projection for its forecasts.\u00c2\u00a0 Michlig Direct, Schedule 2, Hollydale Need Addendum, p. 24.\u00c2\u00a0 For the full Hollydale docket, go HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and search for CoN Docket 12-113 or Routing Docket 11-152.<\/p>\n

Remember the 2.49% annual increase of peak demand that CapX 2020 is based on?\u00c2\u00a0 What would this “Percent Load Growth Over Time” chart look like with a -1.2% and no expected improvement for the foreseeable future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How did this happen?\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody’s sleeping at the switch!\u00c2\u00a0 I forgot to post the link for the 2012 Earnings Call transcript from Seeking Alpha! And it’s a doozy.\u00c2\u00a0 You can find the FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE. Northern States Power \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Minnesota …<\/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":[11,9,8],"tags":[826,653,75],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-coverage","category-nuts-bolts","category-reports-documents","tag-decreased-peak-demand","tag-northern-states-power","tag-xcel-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}