{"id":6552,"date":"2017-02-09T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:28:21","slug":"xmsn-overlay-coming-soon-to-a-backyard-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6552","title":{"rendered":"Xmsn Overlay coming soon to a backyard near you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6553\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20140512_161838_resized-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20140512_161838_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20140512_161838_resized-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20140512_161838_resized-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early, so now&#8217;s the time to get agitated, get activated!<\/p>\n<p>As if <a href=\"http:\/\/capx2020.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">CapX 2020<\/span><\/strong><\/a> wasn&#8217;t enough, and during the <a href=\"http:\/\/capx2020.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">CapX 2020<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Certificate of Need proceeding, word of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/legalectric.org\/weblog\/9092\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">JCSP<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&#8221; overlay came out.\u00c2\u00a0 And we know that Xcel, in its <a href=\"https:\/\/legalectric.org\/weblog\/14246\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">e21 Initiative, is whining about the grid only being 55% utilized<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (DOH! Because <a href=\"http:\/\/capx2020.com\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">CapX <\/span><\/strong><\/a>and other transmission expansion wasn&#8217;t needed, was built, and now they&#8217;re trying to make us pay for it!).<\/p>\n<p>And as if Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/legalectric.org\/weblog\/7142\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">RRTT<\/span><\/strong><\/a> wasn&#8217;t enough, now there&#8217;s this, check out <span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\"><a class=\"eo\" style=\"color: #ffcc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/executive-order\/13766\">Executive Order 13766<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"h-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2017\/01\/30\/2017-02029\/expediting-environmental-reviews-and-approvals-for-high-priority-infrastructure-projects\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure Projects<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And so now the rest of the story &#8212; here&#8217;s what they&#8217;re planning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6554\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170131-EPUG-Overlay-Design_Public-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170131-EPUG-Overlay-Design_Public-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170131-EPUG-Overlay-Design_Public-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170131-EPUG-Overlay-Design_Public-768x522.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list, in a spreadsheet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Copy-of-20170131-EPUG-Preliminary-Overlay-Ideas-List.xlsx\"><strong>20170131 EPUG Preliminary Overlay Ideas List<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has scheduled the MISO Utilities Quarterly Update Meeting for the Second Quarter of 2017 for Friday, March 3, 2017 from 10:00 AM to Noon in the Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Large Hearing Room, 121 7th Place East, Suite 350, St. Paul, MN 55101.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MISO-Q-letter-03-10-2014.bh_.-1.pdf\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">MISO Q letter 03-10-2014.bh.-1<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note this part, to be discussed at this meeting:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6562\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Untitled.jpg 823w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Untitled-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Untitled-768x103.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Laying the ground work now for this, a huge build-out that isn&#8217;t needed, an overlay on top of transmission that wasn&#8217;t needed either.\u00c2\u00a0 NO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s early, so now&#8217;s the time to get agitated, get activated! As if CapX 2020 wasn&#8217;t enough, and during the CapX 2020 Certificate of Need proceeding, word of the &#8220;JCSP&#8221; overlay came out.\u00c2\u00a0 And we know that Xcel, in its <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6552\"><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":[585,212,924,385,370,337,853,967,8,508,341,195],"tags":[14,840,879,184,864,981,35,76,28,1026],"class_list":["post-6552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badgercoulee-wisconsin","category-brookings-routing-docket","category-cardinal-hickory-creek","category-cost-recovery","category-fargo-st-cloud","category-hampton-alma","category-itc-mn-ia-345-kv","category-q-1-upgrade","category-reports-documents","category-south-dakota","category-stcloud-monticello","category-wisconsin","tag-capx-2020","tag-carol-a-overland","tag-legalectric","tag-miso","tag-miso-mvp","tag-mvp-17-project-portfolio","tag-powerline","tag-public-utilities-commission","tag-transmission-line","tag-transmission-overlay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552","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=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}