{"id":564,"date":"2009-03-29T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=564"},"modified":"2016-07-22T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T16:02:55","slug":"commissioner-reha-stumping-for-capx-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Reha stumping for CapX 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-565\" title=\"reha\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/reha.jpg\" alt=\"reha\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Minnesota Public Utilities Commissioner Phyllis Reha did NOT stump for transmission as a speaker at the 2009 National Electricity Delivery Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, this is old news, but as the PUC decision on CapX 2020 need approaches, bias exhibited by Commissioners is important to note &#8212; and here&#8217;s a good example from a prior Forum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/reha-enhancingthenationselectricityadeliverysystem2006.pdf\"><strong>PUC Commissioner Reha: Enhancing the Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Electricity Delivery System<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does this say to you?\u00c2\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this something CapX 2020 should be presenting, not a Commissioner?\u00c2\u00a0 Having presented this, should Phyllis Reha be in a position to make a decision on the &#8220;need&#8221; for CapX 2020?\u00c2\u00a0 I think not!<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis Reha has regularly appeared at the Energetics National Electricity Delivery Forum.\u00c2\u00a0 She made this presentation first in 2006, and she moderated a panel in 2007 (with Steve Corneli, former MN Asst. A.G. now V.P. at NRG!) and appeared in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2007 &#8220;Forum&#8221; Laura McCarten, Xcel, was also presenting on CapX 2020 (yawn, nothing exciting):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energetics.com\/electricity_forum_2007\/pdfs\/CapX_McCarten-XcelEnergy_Feb07.pdf\">CapX 2020 Transmission Initiative: Progress through an Alliance Approach<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even TRANSLink&#8217;s Audrey Zibelman, now PJM, was there in 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 Old home week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Everything this group does PRESUMES transmission.\u00c2\u00a0 Is this something a PUC Commissioner should be doing?\u00c2\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s right up there with junkets to Europe to look at IGCC plants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is that Minnesota Public Utilities Commissioner Phyllis Reha did NOT stump for transmission as a speaker at the 2009 National Electricity Delivery Forum. Who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, this is old news, but as the PUC decision on CapX <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=564\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[106,14,20,104,103,105],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bias","tag-capx-2020","tag-minnesota-public-utilities-commission","tag-mn-puc","tag-phyllis-reha","tag-puc-commissioner-reha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6465,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/6465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}