{"id":5864,"date":"2015-01-22T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2015-01-22T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T23:15:30","slug":"itc-midwest-at-puc-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"ITC Midwest at PUC 1\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MVP3-4_Cropped\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember this map?\u00c2\u00a0 The ITC Midwest MN\/IA\u00c2\u00a0 line is the ITC Midwest part of MISO’s “MVP 3”<\/strong><\/a> which on the above map is the red<\/span><\/strong> part.\u00c2\u00a0 The other part of MISO’s “MVP 3” is to be built and owned by Warren Buffet’s Mid-American Energy, and that’s the green<\/span><\/strong> line above.\u00c2\u00a0 MISO’s MVP 3 is one of those touted and promoted by our “friends” at Center for Rural Affairs<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (oh, what people will do for money!)\u00c2\u00a0 The tan\/orange<\/span><\/strong> and blue<\/span><\/strong> are what’s known as MISO’s “MVP 4.”\u00c2\u00a0 And yes, it’s all connected, moving east to MISO’s MVP 5, the northern part of which is Badger Coulee<\/strong><\/a>, from La Crosse to Madison, and the southern part of which is the Cardinal-Hickory Creek (Spring Green?) that runs from MVP 4 to Madison.<\/p>\n

The biggest thing at issue here is whether ITC Midwest is a “public service corporation” in the state of Minnesota.\u00c2\u00a0 That designation gives it special status, specifically, the door to use of eminent domain, to condemn land for the transmission line.<\/p>\n

The second most important issue in his case is the Minnesota assessment for the 17-20 MISO MVP Projects, not just this one little piece of MVP 3.\u00c2\u00a0 That assessment is in a MISO tariff that was “approved” by FERC:<\/p>\n

Exhibit B_Schedule 26A Indicative Annual Charges_02262014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the PUC Order for Certificate of Need and for the Route Permit, where they’re ducking the major issues:<\/p>\n

Order_Certificate of Need_201411-104931-01<\/a><\/p>\n

Order_Route Permit_14-0120_12-1337<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PUC Staff Briefing Papers have been filed:<\/p>\n

Staff Briefing Papers – Motion For Reconsideration_20151-106480-01<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are the Motions for Reconsideration that were filed:<\/p>\n

No CapX 2020 Motion for Reconsideration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Certificate of Need<\/a><\/p>\n

Jagodozinski_Reconsideration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Route<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Responses of Applicant and Commerce DER in Certificate of Need docket (12-1053):<\/p>\n

Reconsideration_CoN_Applicant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reply_201412-105705-01<\/a><\/p>\n

Commerce DER Response_201412-105704-01<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Response of Applicant in Routing Docket (13-1337):<\/p>\n

Reconsideration_Route_Reply_201412-105706-01<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Remember this map?\u00c2\u00a0 The ITC Midwest MN\/IA\u00c2\u00a0 line is the ITC Midwest part of MISO’s “MVP 3” which on the above map is the red part.\u00c2\u00a0 The other part of MISO’s “MVP 3” is to be built and owned by …<\/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":[853,7],"tags":[208,784,31,76],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itc-mn-ia-345-kv","category-upcoming-events","tag-certificate-of-need","tag-itc-midwest","tag-no-capx-2020","tag-public-utilities-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","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=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}