{"id":5482,"date":"2014-06-09T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2014-06-10T08:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:31:31","slug":"today-black-river-falls-wi-on-the-badger-coulee-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5482","title":{"rendered":"Today — Black River Falls, WI on the Badger Coulee line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hey, it’s the No CapX 2020 and Citizens Energy Task Force table at the Comfort Inn in Black River Falls!\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what we had for handouts:<\/p>\n

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Transmission Lies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c published in Grist 2\/3\/2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deb Severson and I spent the day chatting with everyone who came in the door, making sure they had our info in hand as they went to the PSC table for the gory details and then into the meeting room.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an “open house” format, which I don’t think much of because people need to get a sense of what others are concerned about.<\/p>\n

Here’s one thing I’m concerned about, the root of it all — marketing of coal.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim & Tim, are you paying attention?\u00c2\u00a0 Some things that jump out that aren’t hard to document — remember, today it’s not as easy to document because it’s been a while — it’s not like we’ve got the p. 29 list of generation waiting from the “Southwest Minnesota\/Southeast South Dakota Electric Transmission Study Phase 1” (see p. 29-30 of the only version I could find online<\/strong><\/a>) back when Beth Soholt (Izaak Walton League) and Matt Schuerger (ME3) asked a bunch of us to sell out, nor do we have the 3,341 of coal in MISO queue during the CapX 2020 Certificate of Need proceeding (but remember, this WAS in the record, and ALJ Heydinger, now PUC Chair, was more interested in a settlement and paid little attention to the coal):<\/p>\n

NoCapX 2020 Info Request to MISO Answers 3-8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Slide 7 refers to 3,741MW of coal\/gas generation in MISO queue.<\/p>\n

a. Of that 3,741MW, how much is coal?<\/p>\n

Response:
\n3,441 MW.<\/p>\n

b. Identify MW of coal in MISO queue, state by state for MN, SD, ND, IA and WI,
\nas of the date of your response to this question?<\/p>\n

Response:<\/p>\n

As of May 5, 2008, the cumulative total, by state, of the filed queue coal projects
\nthat are proposed are:<\/p>\n

MN: 726
\nSD: 600
\nND: 1255.8
\nIA: 1378
\nWI: 280<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During that hearing, I had one of those brain farts and asked Jeff Webb, MISO, about wind in queue in Illinois, and he grinned, and pulled a yellow post-it out of his pocket, and replied, “There’s 7,XXX MW of wind in queue in Illinois.”\u00c2\u00a0 DOH!<\/p>\n

And don’t forget this:<\/p>\n

ICF-IndependentAssessmentMISOBenefits<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, here’s what’s up with coal right now:<\/p>\n