{"id":5834,"date":"2014-12-12T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:52:06","slug":"1219-annual-hearing-power-plant-siting-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5834","title":{"rendered":"12\/19 – Annual Hearing – Power Plant Siting Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year… the time that we get to tell the Public Utilities Commission what does and does not work about the Power Plant Siting Act.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve been doing it for years, 15 or so years, and have spent over a year now in a rulemaking on the PUC’s rules, Ch. 7849 (Certificate of Need)<\/strong><\/a> and Ch. 7850 (Power Plant & Transmission Siting)<\/strong><\/a> where some of these long complained of problems will be address (with any luck).\u00c2\u00a0 And now, again, it’s time to reinforce those comments with another round of comments:<\/p>\n

\"Notice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

How to file comments?\u00c2\u00a0 From the notice:<\/p>\n

\"Notice2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After the hearing, now officiated by an Administrative Law Judge (new as of a few years ago), a report is issued to the PUC and then ???\u00c2\u00a0 It used to go to the legislature, guess I have to find out what happens now.<\/p>\n

December 19, 2014 beginning at 9:30 a.m.<\/h2>\n

Public Utilities Commission<\/h2>\n

3rd Floor Large Hearing Room<\/h2>\n

121 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 7th Place East<\/h2>\n

St. Paul, MN\u00c2\u00a0 55101<\/h2>\n

Each of you who have experience siting and routing of large electric energy facilities \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this is the time to weigh in.\u00c2\u00a0 You can do it in person, and you can do it by filing comments.<\/p>\n

Here is the Power Plant Siting Act, which governs the siting and routing of large energy facilities:<\/p>\n

Power Plant Siting Act \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 216E<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are some prior dockets (to access the entire docket, individual comments, etc., go to th PUC’s “SEARCH<\/strong><\/a>” site and plug in the docket numbers :<\/p>\n

2000 Summary of Proceedings<\/a><\/p>\n

2000 Report EQB<\/a><\/p>\n

2001 Summary of Proceedings<\/a><\/p>\n

2001 Report EQB<\/a><\/p>\n

2002 Summary of Proceedings<\/a><\/p>\n

2002 Report to EQB<\/a><\/p>\n

2003 Summary of Proceedings<\/a><\/p>\n

2003 Report to EQB<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Summary of Proceedings<\/a><\/p>\n

2004 Report to EQB<\/a><\/p>\n

2005 Report to PUC<\/a><\/p>\n

2006 Report to PUC<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Docket 06-1733<\/p>\n

2007 Report to PUC<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Docket 07-1579<\/p>\n

2008 Report to PUC <\/a>– Docket 08-1426<\/p>\n

2009 Report to PUC<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Docket 09-1351<\/p>\n

2010 Report to PUC<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Docket 10-222<\/p>\n

2011 Report to PUC<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Docket 11-324<\/p>\n

2012 Report<\/a> – Docket 12-360 –2012 Report Exhibits<\/a><\/p>\n

2013 Report<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 – Docket 13-9650143-96999-01<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year… the time that we get to tell the Public Utilities Commission what does and does not work about the Power Plant Siting Act.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve been doing it for years, 15 or so years, and have …<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834","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=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5834\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}