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From the public meeting materials<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, here’s what they’re looking at, above.\u00a0 These are significant additions to the transmission grid in Minnesota and Wisconsin.\u00a0 Look at the number of double circuits they want to add, and look at the new transmission planned for Minnesota and WIsconsin.\u00a0 And note how, as with CapX 2020, it’s starting in the coal fields of the Dakotas.<\/p>\n MISO’s Economic Planning Users Group is planning a “Regional Transmission Overlay Study” and they’re having another meeting tomorrow, May 25, 2017 down in Metatairie, Louisiana.<\/p>\n Here’s the call in info:<\/p>\n WebEx Information<\/a> Participant Dial-In Number: 1-800-689-9374 Meeting Materials from the MISO site:<\/p>\n Here’s the problem — they close the meeting, and people like me aren’t allowed to attend.\u00c2\u00a0 First I was told, back in January when I tried to register:<\/p>\n Thank you for registering for the Economic Planning Users Group (EPUG) on Jan 31.\u00a0 The afternoon portion of this meeting will be held in CLOSED session and reserved from MISO Members or Market Participants only.\u00a0 Please feel free to attend the morning session from 11:00 am to 12:45 pm ET \/ 10:00 am to 11:45 CT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I filled out their “CEII – Non-Disclosure Agreement” form and fired it off.\u00a0 But noooooo…<\/p>\n So next I went to the PUC’s Quarterly MISO update, where I was assured that we could make arrangements so that I could attend.\u00a0 I resent the “CEII – Non-Disclosure Agreement” and went back and forth and it came to this (click for larger version).\u00a0 Note this “explanation” of options to be able to attend:<\/p>\n The reason that you were not permitted to attend the closed session is because the meeting involved discussion of Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII) and CEII access requests by Non-Member Individuals requires FERC clearance.\u00a0 Another access option is to be included on Appendix A of a MISO member or Market Participant.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So that says there are two ways to gain access, 1) get “FERC clearance” or 2) “Another access option<\/strong><\/span> is to be included on Appendix A of a MISO member or Market Participant.<\/em>“\u00c2\u00a0 One or the other. Emphasis added.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the email (click for larger version) laying out those two options:<\/p>\n Oh, I says to myself, off to FERC.\u00a0 I sent in the requisite paperwork to FERC, and got “FERC clearance” and they shipped me the CEII information, including but not limited to the map.\u00a0 I let MISO know I’d obtained “FERC clearance,” and here’s the response (click for larger version):<\/p>\n ARRRRGH, they have my CEII NDA on file, have had it since January 23, 2017.\u00a0 I resent it to the writer of these emails on March 4, 2017, and I sent it again today, and objected to yet another change in their “rules” (click for larger version):<\/p>\n So the plot thickens — from MISO (click or larger version):<\/p>\n And from moi (click for larger version):<\/p>\n From the public meeting materials, here’s what they’re looking at, above.\u00a0 These are significant additions to the transmission grid in Minnesota and Wisconsin.\u00a0 Look at the number of double circuits they want to add, and look at the new transmission …<\/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":[585,212,924,385,370,405,337,853,11,9,8,508,341,7,195],"tags":[711,840,1027,1028,692,949,879,184,1029,31,1030,83,1026],"class_list":["post-6566","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-ferc","category-hampton-alma","category-itc-mn-ia-345-kv","category-news-coverage","category-nuts-bolts","category-reports-documents","category-south-dakota","category-stcloud-monticello","category-upcoming-events","category-wisconsin","tag-bulk-power-transfer","tag-carol-a-overland","tag-ceii","tag-critical-energy-infrastructure-information","tag-federal-energy-regulatory-commission","tag-ferc","tag-legalectric","tag-miso","tag-nda","tag-no-capx-2020","tag-non-disclosure-agreement","tag-transmission","tag-transmission-overlay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","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=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6664,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/legalectric.org\/f\/2017\/05\/Notice.jpg\")
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