{"id":6504,"date":"2016-09-28T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:14:40","slug":"capx-2020-its-over-its-done-all-but-the-cost-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6504","title":{"rendered":"CapX 2020 — It’s over, it’s done, all but the cost recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CapX 2020 at Highway 61 south of Wabasha<\/em><\/p>\n

Monday, they had their CapX 2020<\/strong><\/a> Love Fest at the Hampton substation, and I didn’t even get an engraved invitation.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a depressing point in time — 12 years on this project — and they got all they wanted, in some places not where they wanted it, but it’s up, and so many people affected.\u00c2\u00a0 Having it routed somewhere, anywhere, is what they cared about, and supposedly it’s now “in-service,” though I wonder.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it time to have a big bonfire of all the boxes of files?<\/p>\n

This was about the Minnesota portions, but South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin is permitted as well, the superhighway from the coal fields of the Dakotas to Madison and beyond.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, I could have camped out and crashed the party, but I had another commitment, so couldn’t spend the day hanging out waiting, watching.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I should have…<\/p>\n

\"capx_hrl_energized_20160926_113428-med\"<\/a>Left-to-right: Mark Kotschevar, Rochester Public Utilities; Dave Geschwind, Southern MN Municipal Power Agency; Teresa Mogensen, Xcel Energy; Chris Kunkle, Wind on the Wires; Ben Porath, Dairyland Power Cooperative; Priti Patel, MISO; Tim Noeldner, WPPI Energy. From CapX Press Release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

How much was “Wind on the Wires” (f\/k\/a Izaak Walton League) (and many other orgs?) paid for their promotion of transmission?<\/p>\n

In the press:<\/p>\n

STrib (is it really $2.1 billion?\u00c2\u00a0 Any recent reports?):<\/p>\n

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Last Minnesota leg of $2.1 billion electricity mega-project done<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From WKBT (video here):<\/p>\n

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CapX2020<\/b> transmission line completed<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Wisconsin Public Radio:<\/p>\n

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Collaborative Utility Project Connects Electric Transmission From South Dakota To Wisconsin<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rochester Post-Bulletin:<\/p>\n

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Drone patrols the power line<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s up and running — get out those gauss meters and check it out.<\/p>\n

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CapX 2020 at Hwy. 61 looking towards the Mississippi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CapX 2020 at Highway 61 south of Wabasha Monday, they had their CapX 2020 Love Fest at the Hampton substation, and I didn’t even get an engraved invitation.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a depressing point in time — 12 years on this project …<\/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":[585,429,212,385,370,337,853,11,976,341,195],"tags":[14,840,671,953,245,123,879,31,35,1018,152,28,206,75],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badgercoulee-wisconsin","category-bemidji-grand-rapids","category-brookings-routing-docket","category-cost-recovery","category-fargo-st-cloud","category-hampton-alma","category-itc-mn-ia-345-kv","category-news-coverage","category-rate-case-transmission","category-stcloud-monticello","category-wisconsin","tag-capx-2020","tag-carol-a-overland","tag-dairyland-power-cooperative","tag-dpc","tag-gre","tag-great-river-energy","tag-legalectric","tag-no-capx-2020","tag-powerline","tag-rochester-public-utility","tag-rural-utility-service","tag-transmission-line","tag-xcel","tag-xcel-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","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=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}